motion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 运动, 动态; 手势, 眼色, 姿势; 提议; 动议，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：
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- Bathsheba tried to preserve an absolutely neutral countenance, and all the motion she made was that of closing lips which had previously been a little parted.
-- The peculiar motion involved in turning a wheel has a wonderful tendency to benumb the mind.
-- It was impossible to send this letter till the next day; yet to quell her uneasiness by getting it out of her hands, and so, as it were, setting the act in motion at once, she arose to take it to any one of the women who might be in the kitchen.
-- Just as that imperceptible motion which appears like stillness is infinitely divided in its properties from stillness itself, so had his hope undistinguishable from despair differed from despair indeed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
-- It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
-- The wind, which had hitherto carried us along with amazing rapidity, sank at sunset to a light breeze; the soft 238 Frankensteinair just ruffled the water and caused a pleasant motion among the trees as we approached the shore, from which it wafted the most delightful scent of flowers and hay.
-- As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gone with the wind Margaret Mitchell The greatest love story of our times, the story of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler...Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at Joe, making the motion with my lips and eyebrows, "She?"
-- Joe looked at me, making the motion with his lips and eyebrows, "She?"
-- With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after I 19heard a general shout, with frequent repetitions of the words Peplom selan; and I felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ease myself with making water; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonish-ment of the people; who, conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that side, to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from me.
-- He was amazed at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more acute than ours: he asked the opinions of his learned men about it, which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my repeating; although indeed I could not very perfectly understand them.
-- The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough.
-- The natural love of life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I was ready to entertain a hope that this adven-ture might, some way or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition I was in.
-- When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too: for in this magnet, the forces always act in lines par-allel to its direction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She passed it away with a slight motion of her hand, and concentrating her attention upon him again, said, 'Father, I have often thought that life is very short.
-- The measured motion of their shadows on the walls, was the substitute Coketown had to show for the shadows of rustling woods; while, for the summer hum of insects, it could offer, all the year round, from the dawn of Monday to the night of Saturday, the whirr of shafts and wheels.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At all events the tremulous motion of his fingers made me think so.
-- This economy of motion was carried to the length of avarice.
-- Besides the density of the air at that depth from light and motion was very far from adding to the rapidity of circulation.
-- Already the uplifting of the waters on the surface indicates that something is in motion below.
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