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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the American coast to Tristan d'Acunha is reckoned 2,100 miles—a distance which John Mangles hoped to clear in ten days, if east winds did not retard the motion of the yacht.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
-- But neither Lady Helena nor Mary Grant uttered a word of complaint, though the continuous rain obliged them to stay below, where the want of air and the violence of the motion were painfully felt.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had eight hard needle-like whiskers coming out from different parts of its body; it went along like a snake, bending its body about in spite of the shell it wore, and its motion was very quick and very horrible to look at.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus of his own inward motion he saved the city of the Aeto-lians; but they now gave him nothing of those rich rewards that they had offered earlier, and though he saved the city he took nothing by it.
-- Juno trembled as he spoke, and said, 'May heaven above and earth below be my witnesses, with the waters of the riv-er Styx and this is the most solemn oath that a blessed god can take nay, I swear also by your own almighty head and by our bridal bed things over which I could never possi-bly perjure myself that Neptune is not punishing Hector and the Trojans and helping the Achaeans through any do-ing of mine; it is all of his own mere motion because he was sorry to see the Achaeans hard pressed at their ships: if I were advising him, I should tell him to do as you bid him.'
-- If Olympian Jove of his own motion thus commands me, let him that brings the ransom bear the body away.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There came a sudden motion and the oversetting of a chair, a brief struggle.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without taking my eyes off the black form before me, I stooped and picked up this lump of rock; but at my motion the Thing turned abruptly as a dog might have done, and slunk obliquely into the further darkness.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The victory is only a matter of quick-ness of eye and quickness of foot snake's blow against mongoose's jump and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake's head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.
-- Rikki-tikki's eyes grew red again, and he danced up to Karait with the peculiar rocking, swaying motion that he had inherited from his family.
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：
-- Then, without circumlocution or apology, first pronounced the word 'Standish,' and placing the un-known engine, already described, to his mouth, from which he drew a high, shrill sound, that was followed by an octave below, from his own voice, he commenced singing the fol-lowing words, in full, sweet, and melodious tones, that set the music, the poetry, and even the uneasy motion of his illtrained beast at defiance; 'How good it is, O see, And how it pleaseth well, Together e'en in unity, For brethren so to dwell.
-- While he hesitated how to proceed, Le Subtil cautiously raised himself to his feet, though with a motion so slow and guarded, that not the slightest noise was produced by the change.
-- The motion caused Cora to raise her hand as if to repulse him, while Alice murmured, in her soft, gentle voice, 'No, no, dear father, we were not deserted; Duncan was with us!'
-- The savages were so near, that the least motion in one of the horses, or even a breath louder than common, would have betrayed the fugitives.
-- As he mused he became keenly sensible of the deep responsibility they as-sume who disregard the means to attain the end, and of all the danger of setting in motion an engine which it exceeds human power to control.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'; he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings.
-- The greater part of the time he scraped on two or three strings, accompany-ing every movement of the bow with a motion of the head; bowing almost to the ground, and stamping with his foot whenever a fresh couple were to start.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did the place present any extraordinary aspect of life or activity, as its only human occupant was an amphibious boy in a canvas suit, whose sole change of occupation was from sitting on the head of a pile and throwing stones into the mud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high-water.
-- Nor did the striking of the clocks, hour after hour, appear to inspire him with any sense of drowsiness or any natural desire to go to rest, but rather to increase his wakefulness, which he showed, at every such indication of the progress of the night, by a suppressed cackling in his throat, and a motion of his shoulders, like one who laughs heartily but the same time slyly and by stealth.
-- The noise and motion in the streets fatigued his brain at first, but he was not surprised, or curious, or pleased, or irritated.
-- Nor will this appear so slight a circumstance as to be unworthy of mention, when it is remembered that the caravan was in uneasy motion all the time, and that none but a person of great natural stateliness and acquired grace could have forborne to stagger.
-- He stopped her with a motion of his hand, and bade her talk to him no more just then, for he was busy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said not a word, but came painfully to the table, and made a motion towards the wine.
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