violent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 猛烈的; 凶暴的; 由暴力引起的; 强烈的, 厉害的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entire ship's crew were undergoing a nervous excitement, of which I can give no idea: they could not eat, they could not sleep twenty times a day, a misconception or an optical illusion of some sailor seated on the taffrail, would cause dreadful perspirations, and these emotions, twenty times repeated, kept us in a state of excitement so violent that a reaction was unavoidable.
-- My limbs stiffened under the strain of violent cramp.
-- Yet who knows whether some despot "Captain Nemo finished his sentence with a violent gesture.
-- Ned Land, carried away by his violent instincts, rushed on to the staircase.
-- His eyes flashed sullenly; his teeth were set; his stiff body, clenched fists, and head shrunk between his shoulders, betrayed the violent agitation that pervaded his whole frame.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sudden fierce anger swept over the girl, violent and murderous.
-- A strange transport took possession of her, all her veins were in a paroxysm of violent sensation.
-- He loved his own vigorous, thrusting motion, and the violent impulse of the very cold water against his limbs, buoying him up.
-- She was at once roused, she laid as it were violent hands on him, to extract his secrets from him.
-- He could feel violent waves of hatred and loathing of all he said, coming out of her.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on me; and, not daring to attack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel.
-- I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
-- I was surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered the house.
-- He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but Heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.
-- There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building: a huge bough fell across the roof, and knocked down a portion of the east chimney stack, sending a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen fire.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not new to violent death I have served his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy but I know my pulse went dot and carry one.
-- Suddenly the schooner in front of me gave a violent yaw, turning, perhaps, through twenty degrees; and almost at the same moment one shout followed another from on board; I could hear feet pounding on the companion ladder and I knew that the two drunkards had at last been interrupted in their quarrel and awakened to a sense of their disaster.
-- But even a small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behaviour of a coracle.
-- It was my first thought to pluck forth the dirk, but either it stuck too hard or my nerve failed me, and I desisted with a violent shudder.
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