amusement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 娱乐， 消遣， 乐趣，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "On one side it's a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I'm neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side" (he stammered) "it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
-- His brilliant black eyes were looking straight at the excited country gentleman with gray whiskers, and apparently he derived amusement from his remarks.
-- He felt this especially when he talked to the cleverest of the peasants, Ryezunov, and detected the gleam in Ryezunov's eyes which showed so plainly both ironical amusement at Levin, and the firm conviction that, if any one were to be taken in, it would not be he, Ryezunov.
-- Vronsky particularly laughed with such simplehearted amusement that Levin felt quite reconciled to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter, without a word, made a rush for him, grasped him by the throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who immediately began to bet on him, administered to the detective a perfect volley of blows, which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill.
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：
-- What the student expressed most surprise and amusement about was the fact that Lizaveta was continu-ally with child.
-- But he soon saw what it meant, and at once began to find positive amusement in the scandal.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the greatest amusement in the world!And after such success, you know! Every body said 12 Emmathat Mr. Weston would never marry again.
-- Emma, in good spirits too, from the amusement afforded her mind by the expectation of Mr. Frank Churchill, was willing to forget his late improprieties, and be as well satis-fied with him as before, and on his making Harriet his very first subject, was ready to listen with most friendly smiles.
-- We had great amusement with those letters one morning.
-- Think she must of the possible difference to the poor little boy; and yet she only gave herself a saucy conscious smile about it, and found amusement in detecting the real cause of that violent dis-like of Mr. Knightley's marrying Jane Fairfax, or any body else, which at the time she had wholly imputed to the ami-able solicitude of the sister and the aunt.
-- 'Oh!no what an impudent dog I was! How could I dare ' But he laughed so heartily at the recollection, that Emma could not help saying, 'I do suspect that in the midst of your perplexities at that time, you had very great amusement in tricking us all. I am sure you had. I am sure it was a consolation to you.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.
-- After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that re-sembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and var-ied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.
-- He wished me to seek amusement in society.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been well, disrespectful to it would have seemed as if Ihadn't lov " His eyes waited on her words, cynical amusement in them, and she could not go on.
-- Her lips mutinous, she looked up into his eyes and saw so much amusement in their dark depths that she burst intolaughter.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he called to the miser, and said, 'Tell us now, you vagabond, where you got that gold, or I shall play on for your amusement only,' 'I stole it,' said the miser in the pres-ence of all the people; 'I acknowledge that I stole it, and that you earned it fairly.'
-- This was in part due to Ed-gar Taylor, who made the first English translation in 1823, selecting about fifty stories 'with the amusement of some young friends principally in view.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gentleman of distinc-tion said to me, 'that since the ships bound for Luggnagg could not be ready in less than a month, it might be no dis-agreeable amusement for me to take a trip to the little island of Glubbdubdrib, about five leagues off to the south-west.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My only amusement was looking out of the window.
-- It afforded me great amusement to gaze on their variegated ribbon-like endless lengths.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The well-groomed showy dogs of amusement wrangled and snarled among themselves for the favours of the bitch-goddess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus he had taken up with him; and thus, negligently strengthening these inclinations with habit, and idly deriving some amusement from his talk, he had glided into a way of having him for a companion.
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