attention是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 注意， 注意力； 立正； 特别照顾； 照料，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
-- I do not know that there was anything about them to excite the attention of the curious.
-- It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off.
-- He gave me an extraordinary impression as he sat there, his attention riveted on his game an impression of great strength; and I could not understand why it was that his emaciation somehow made it more striking.
-- It would seem that my visit to this remote island should immediately revive my interest in Strickland, but the work I was engaged in occupied my attention to the exclusion of something that was irrelevant, and it was not till I had been there some days that I even remembered his connection with it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert directed Pencroft's attention to it, adding, "That proves that there is a coast to the west, at no great distance."
-- Neb's companions had watched his daring attempt with painful anxiety, and when he was out of sight, they fixed their attention on the land where their hope of safety lay, while eating some shell- fish with which the sand was strewn.
-- Their attention was first arrested by the snow-topped mountain which rose at a distance of six or seven miles.
-- The jerks attracted the attention of the gallinaceae, and they attacked the hooks with their beaks.
-- Neb's companions had listened with great attention to this account.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man reclined against a table at no great distance from his friend, in apparent indifference to everything that had passed; and I who felt the difficulty of any interference, notwithstanding that the old man had appealed to me, both by words and looks made the best feint I could of being occupied in examining some of the goods that were disposed for sale, and paying very little attention to a person before me.
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- By these means he in time reached the door, where he gave a great cough to attract the dwarf's attention and gain an opportunity of expressing in dumb show, the closest confidence and most inviolable secrecy.
-- Looking into the eyes of Mrs and Miss Wackles for encouragement, and sitting very upright and uncomfortable on a couple of hard stools, were two of the day-scholars; and when Miss Wackles smiled, and Mrs Wackles smiled, the two little girls on the stools sought to curry favour by smiling likewise, in gracious acknowledgement of which attention the old lady frowned them down instantly, and said that if they dared to be guilty of such an impertinence again, they should be sent under convoy to their respective homes.
-- This patient lounger attracted little attention from any of those who passed, and bestowed as little upon them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It occurred to me that I was perhaps annoying them, and I turned my attention to the island we were approaching.
-- He called my attention to a convenient deck-chair before the window, and to an array of old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near the hammock.
-- Montgom-ery called my attention to certain little pink animals with long hind-legs, that went leaping through the undergrowth.
-- Montgomery called my attention to this.
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：
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
-- The other, who appeared to share equally in the attention of the young officer, con-cealed her charms from the gaze of the soldiery with a care that seemed better fitted to the experience of four or five additional years.
-- Hesitating to advance, he pointed out the place to the attention of his companion.
-- But they were not in a situation to suffer their thoughts to dwell on the charms of natural objects; and, as the scout had not found it necessary to cease his culinary labors while he spoke, un-less to point out, with a broken fork, the direction of some particularly obnoxious point in the rebellious stream, they now suffered their attention to be drawn to the necessary though more vulgar consideration of their supper.
-- Once or twice he was compelled to speak, to command her attention of those he served.
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