physical是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 物质的； 肉体的， 身体的； 自然科学的， 物理的，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a result which paralleled the oft-quoted observation of Hippocrates concerning physical pains.
-- It was a simple physical fear the weak of the strong; there was no emotional aversion or inner repugnance.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of the ravages of conflicting passions, her face retained some traces of its former fairness and fineness of tissue, some vestiges of the physical charms of her youth still survived.
-- Stately Paris ignores the existence of these faces bleached by moral or physical suffering; but, then, Paris is in truth an ocean that no line can plumb.
-- The poor old man's mental and physical condition afforded some grounds for the absurd rubbish talked about him.
-- This sensation of physical comfort left his mind free to grapple with the thoughts that assailed him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the out-ward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my in-quiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
-- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debil-ity might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Dear Wife, if I have concealed aught from you it is because I did not wish to lay a burden on your shoulders, toadd to your worries for my physical safety with those of my mental turmoil.
-- There was something breathtakingin the grace of his big body which made his very entrance into a room like an abrupt physical impact, something in theimpertinence and bland mockery of his dark eyes that challenged her spirit to subdue him.
-- The muscles of his big body rippled against his well-tailored clothes, as he got in beside her, and, as always, thesense of his great physical power struck her like a blow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I saw him every day, it was for only a short time; hence, the regularly recurring spaces of our separation were long enough to record on his face any slight changes that occurred in his physical state.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council's Schedule B, and had taken the bloom off the higher branches of mathematics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek.
-- That exactly in the ratio as they worked long and monotonously, the craving grew within them for some physical relief some relaxation, encouraging good humour and good spirits, and giving them a vent some recognized holiday, though it were but for an honest dance to a stirring band of music some occasional light pie in which even M'Choakumchild had no finger which craving must and would be satisfied aright, or must and would inevitably go wrong, until the laws of the Creation were repealed?
-- Lastly, she was guardian over a little armoury of cutlasses and carbines, arrayed in vengeful order above one of the official chimney-pieces; and over that respectable tradition never to be separated from a place of business claiming to be wealthy a row of fire-buckets vessels calculated to be of no physical utility on any occasion, but observed to exercise a fine moral influence, almost equal to bullion, on most beholders.
-- But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her; all children loving her; she, grown learned in childish lore; thinking no innocent and pretty fancy ever to be despised; trying hard to know her humbler fellow-creatures, and to beautify their lives of machinery and reality with those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of infancy will wither up, the sturdiest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can show, will be the Writing on the Wall, she holding this course as part of no fantastic vow, or bond, or brotherhood, or sisterhood, or pledge, or covenant, or fancy dress, or fancy fair; but simply as a duty to be done, did Louisa see these things of herself?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, few as the minutes were during which I gazed down this tremendous and even wondrous shaft, I had a sufficient glimpse of it to give me some idea of its physical conformation.
-- I should originally have supposed that, under such an atmospheric pressure as must exist in that place, the evaporation of water could not really take place, and yet from the action of some physical law, which escaped my memory, there were heavy and dense clouds rolling along that mighty vault, partially concealing the roof.
-- inquired my uncle, with a pitying smile; "is there any physical reason in opposition to it?"
-- However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons.
-- We must at whatever risk recruit our physical strength.
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：
-- It was obvious in them too that love had gone through them: that is, the physical experience.
-- Of physical life they lived very little.
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