thirst是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 渴; 渴望，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：
-- Here the horses drank their fill greedily, as if bent on quenching their thirst for past, present and future.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Jacques,' said Defarge; 'judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His teachers complained that he would not learn, while his soul was brimming over with thirst for knowledge.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After two hours the guide stopped the elephant, and gave him an hour for rest, during which Kiouni, after quenching his thirst at a neighbouring spring, set to devouring the branches and shrubs round about him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something new seemed to be taking place within him, and with it he felt a sort of thirst for company.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The demon of luxury gnawed at his heart, greed burned in his veins, his throat was parched with the thirst of gold.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympa-thy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
-- Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrat- ed disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
-- My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
-- I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.
-- I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fa-tal secret.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Atlanta was wild with excitement, pleasure and a hot thirst for vengeance.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come back and his thirst grew ever greater, he said: 'I must go into the cellar my-self and see where Elsie is.'
-- So the student sat himself down and waited a while; but the time hung heavy upon him, and he begged earnestly that he might ascend forthwith, for his thirst for knowledge was great.
-- Dum-mling asked him what he was taking to heart so sorely, and he answered: 'I have such a great thirst and cannot quench it; cold water I cannot stand, a barrel of wine I have just emptied, but that to me is like a drop on a hot stone!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- 191 He said so many other obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest a man, that I could not reject this proposal; the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'With a hunger and thirst upon me, father, which have never been for a moment appeased; with an ardent impulse towards some region where rules, and figures, and definitions were not quite absolute; I have grown up, battling every inch of my way.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As little as my thirst was really quenched, I had nevertheless partially recovered my strength.
-- Our thirst was so intense that to quench it we would have dug below the bed of old Ocean itself.
-- This beneficent spring after having saved us from thirst during so many days would now enable me to regain the right road.
-- I drank the milk first, for thirst had nearly deadened hunger.
-- And all the while we were approaching this beautiful verdure, hunger and thirst tormented me fearfully.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Pinocchio had had his fill, he grumbled, as he wiped his mouth: "My thirst is gone.
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