erect是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 建立, 使竖立; a. 直立的, 竖直的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The princess asked Varenka to sing again, and Varenka sang another song, also smoothly, distinctly, and well, standing erect at the piano and beating time on it with her thin, dark-skinned hand.
-- Vronsky too was getting up, and in a stooping, not yet erect posture, looked up at him from under his brows.
-- Darya Alexandrovna, sitting erect on a chair, turned her head, following Anna with a face of sympathetic suffering.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg, with body erect and legs wide apart, standing like a sailor, gazed without staggering at the swelling waters.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True, the Terry who went off to the artillery did not look upon him dourly, but Major Rippleton Holabird became erect and stiff when they passed in the corridor.
-- And the three of us-- Some day we might be able to erect a superstructure of co-operative science which would control not only McGurk but every institute and every university scientific department in the country, and so produce really efficient research.
-- When the Board had gone, Martin and Terry flooded into Gottlieb's laboratory and found the old man standing by his bench, more erect than they had seen him for years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I observed, however,that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggottydown a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the manwho was gradually becoming more and more etherealised in myeyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed tome to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like alittle lighthouse in a sea of stationery.
-- I beg to hand to my friend Mr.Thomas Traddles my I. O. U. for forty-one, ten, eleven and a half,and I am happy to recover my moral dignity, and to know that Ican once more walk erect before my fellowman!'
-- Mr. Micawber walked so erect before his fellowman, on thestrength of this virtuous action, that his chest looked half as broadagain when he lighted us downstairs.
-- 'Without more directly referring to any latent ability that maypossibly exist on my part, of wielding the thunderbolt, or directingthe devouring and avenging flame in any quarter, I may bepermitted to observe, in passing, that my brightest visions are forever dispelledthat my peace is shattered and my power ofenjoyment destroyedthat my heart is no longer in the right place- 648and that I no more walk erect before my fellow-man.
-- Traddles, sitting on the edge of his chair,with his eyes wide open, and his hair more emphatically erect thanever, stared by turns at the ground and at Mr. Micawber, withoutso much as attempting to put in a word.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.
-- It was not a bridle-path merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.
-- He was erect in attitude, and quiet in demeanour.
-- He saw the square figure sitting erect upon the horse, the head turned to neither side, the elbows steady by the hips, the brim of the hat level and undisturbed in its onward glide, until the keen edges of Boldwood's shape sank by degrees over the hill.
-- This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide; it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His person was short but remarkably erect and his voice the sweetest I had ever heard.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked appealingly at the two girlswho kept their eyes cast down and then hopefully toward Uncle Peter's erect back.
-- She looked about the crowd, picking out friends and neighbors, Mrs. Meade with her bonnet askew and her armthough that of fifteen-year-old Phil; the Misses McLure trying to make their trembling upper lips cover their buckteeth; Mrs. Elsing, erect as a Spartan mother, betraying her inner turmoil only by the straggling gray locks that hungfrom her chignon; and Fanny Elsing white as a ghost (Surely Fanny wouldn't be so worried about her brother Hugh.
-- Miss Hope, death in her face, sat erect beside her, holding her sister's skirt ina tight grasp.
-- Such a breathlessweek when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute withincidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead,extracting every morsel of comfort from them dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants,smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each liftof his eyebrows, each quirk of his mouth, will be indelibly printed on your mind for a week goes by so fast and thewar goes on forever.
-- It was a ghastly trip home, with Aunt Pitty crying into her handkerchief, Melanie sitting erect and white andScarlett slumped, stunned in the corner of the carriage.
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