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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
-- Why, the ship we're on, of course—a good ship that has been commended to me, not only for its physical qualities, but also for the moral qualities of its commander, the brave Captain Burton.
-- However strong the will of these brave men might be, the time came at last when their physical powers failed, and vertigo, that terrible malady in the mountains, destroyed not only their bodily strength but their moral energy.
-- "From a purely physical cause, friends," said Paganel, "and one that you will easily understand.
-- Among the savages, sorrow is always manifested by physical signs; the parents and friends of deceased warriors, the women especially, lacerated their faces and shoulders with sharpened shells.
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：
-- He roused in the woman a wild sort of compassion and yearning, and a wild, craving physical desire.
-- The physical desire he did not satisfy in her; he was always come and fin-ished so quickly, then shrinking down on her breast, and recovering somewhat his effrontery while she lay dazed, disappointed, lost.
-- Sex might be a sort of normal physical conversation between a man and a woman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It required some judgment to do it without butting the inner hall-door open, and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen stairs.
-- How there was a reference of the invention to three Barnacles and a Stiltstalking, who knew nothing about it; into whose heads nothing could be hammered about it; who got bored about it, and reported physical impossibilities about it.
-- As a much shorter man than the visitor, Mr Flintwinch was at the physical disadvantage of being thus disagreeably leered at from a height; and as he went first down the staircase, and was usually a step or two lower than the other, this disadvantage was at the time increased.
-- He submitted, in a low voice across the table to Bishop, that it was a kind of analogical illustration of those physical laws, in virtue of which Like flies to Like.
-- The Progress of an EpidemicThat it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignity and rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed in the most unlikely constitutions: is a fact as firmly established by experience as that we human creatures breathe an atmosphere.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
-- Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connexions?
-- Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.
-- But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so much the more abbreviate it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.
-- Now, Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry having gone out to tea and supper: and Noah Claypole not being at any time disposed to take upon himself a greater amount of physical exertion than is necessary to a convenient performance of the two functions of eating and drinking, the shop was not closed, although it was past the usual hour of shutting-up.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A strong physical nature, actuated by a keen desire for the feminine, was the next.
-- She was concentrating herself too thoroughly--what she did really required less mental and physical strain.
-- He seemed to do all his mental operations without the aid of physical expression.
-- Hurstwood was still worthy, in a physical sense, of the affection his wife had once bestowed upon him, but in a social sense he fell short.
-- The poisons generated by remorse inveigh against the system, and eventually produce marked physical deterioration.
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