excite是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 刺激， 使激动； 激发， 激励，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing could excite him, nothing could disturb him, not even a cannon ball, and no doubt he will die without ever having known even a passing feeling of irritation.
-- "Stop, Paganel, don't excite yourself; I don't mean to say that we should prolong our search in America."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could well remember the scorn which the theories of the reasoner used then to excite in the practical man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't excite yourself; you seem very ill, and I am sorry for that.
-- heavens!if you declare that the prince's generosity will, excite no grati-tude in you, he might answer that he is not, bound to be grateful to Pavlicheff, who also was only satisfying his own conscience.
-- 'Talk, but not too loud, and don't excite yourself.
-- 'You will only excite him more,' he said.
-- The old dignitary blushed a little, and murmured that the prince had better not excite himself further.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a fallow deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in anoth-er instant, the person of the ungainly man, described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.
-- Behind these, the runner leaned against a tree, where he stood the close examination of the scout with an air unmoved, though with a look so dark and savage, that it might in itself excite fear.
-- 'That I am not stone, your dead comrade, who fell into the falls, might answer, were the life still in him,' said the provoked young man, using, in his anger, that boastful lan-guage which was most likely to excite the admiration of an Indian.
-- The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighboring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite ei-ther commiseration or comment.
-- The costume of the votary of music had undergone no other alteration from that so lately described, except that he had covered his bald head with the triangular beaver, which had not proved suf-ficiently alluring to excite the cupidity of any of his captors.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know that there was anything about them to excite the attention of the curious.
-- She was very unhappy, but to excite my sympathy she was able to make a show of her unhappiness.
-- Poor pantaloon, he was not an object to excite love, but the smile in her eyes was affectionate, and it was possible that her reserve concealed a very deep feeling.
-- When Strickland, recovering somewhat, was in a good humour and amused himself by laughing at him, he deliberately did absurd things to excite his ridicule.
-- I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first of these pirates who lays a hand on me ""Do not excite yourself, Ned," I said to the harpooner, "and do not compromise us by useless violence.
-- I do not wish to pry into your secrets: but I must confess that this Nautilus, with the motive power which is confined in it, the contrivances which enable it to be worked, the powerful agent which propels it, all excite my curiosity to the highest pitch.
-- He wanted to go to the surface and harpoon the monsters, particularly certain smooth-hound sharks, whose mouth is studded with teeth like a mosaic; and large tiger-sharks nearly six yards long, the last named of which seemed to excite him more particularly.
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