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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was certainly no physical injury of any kind.
-- 'Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This country villa pleased the prince very much in his state of physical and mental exhaustion.
-- 'Time counts for nothing, even in physical chastisement; but my slap in the face was not physical, it was moral.'
-- VIII HIS same morning dawned for the prince pregnant with Tno less painful presentiments, which fact his physical state was, of course, quite enough to account for; but he was so indefinably melancholy, his sadness could not attach it-self to anything in particular, and this tormented him more than anything else.
-- 'Yes not a physical one!I don't suppose anyone even a woman would raise a hand against me now.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face was eloquent of physical suffering.
-- I was in a state of physical serenity, and that was reflected in my mind.
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：
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- He well knew that the au-thority of an Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
-- He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their destitution; their misery, both physical and moral; their distance; and, at last, of their unavenged wrongs.
-- Alice revived under the renovating influence of the open air, and, as her physical rather than her mental powers had been the subject of weakness, she stood in no need of any explanation of that which had occurred.
-- Their dis-tant villages, their hunting-grounds and hundreds of their women and children, together with a material part of their physical force, were actually within the limits of the French territory.
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：
-- I was not so much puzzled by Blanche Stroeve's action, for I saw in that merely the result of a physical appeal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as bandy-legs or such physical deformities in children are held to be the consequence of bad nursing, so, if in a mind so beautiful any moral twist or handiness could be found, Miss Sally Brass's nurse was alone to blame.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time he paced his room to and fro, frowning, and even jumping, and moaning aloud as if from physical pain, as he thought of the scene.
-- These changes in him had both physical and spiritual causes; and one of these changes he was now undergoing.
-- Passing by the butcher, fish and clothing shops, he was struck, as if it was the first time he looked upon them--by the physical evidences of the well-being of such a large number of clean, well-fed shopkeepers which was not to be seen anywhere in the villages.
-- In a sympathetic conversation about the injustice of the strong, the poverty of the people, the awful condition of the prisoners, she succeeded in rousing in him the least expected feeling of physical attraction, and under the din of conversation their eyes plainly queried, "Can you love me?"
-- But strangers often attempted familiarities with her, and in such cases her great physical strength stood her in good stead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force.
-- "I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature.
-- Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help may even be hindrances to a civilised man.
-- And in a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place.
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