active是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 活跃的， 敏捷的， 积极的； 在活动中的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, es-corted by his brother and sister to his stool before the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round and put it on the hob to simmer; Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high proces-sion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was no passive belief, but an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient plac-es of business.
-- The spectators saw in the two figures, a young lady of little more than twenty, and a gentleman who was evi-dently her father; a man of a very remarkable appearance in respect of the absolute whiteness of his hair, and a cer-tain indescribable intensity of face: not of an active kind, 88 A tale of two citiesbut pondering and self-communing.
-- How near to her heart the echoes of her child's tread came, and those of her own dear father's, always active and self-possessed, and those of her dear husband's, need not be told.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.
-- Kitty, on the contrary, was more active than usual.
-- The party--some twenty--had been selected by Sviazhsky from among the more active new liberals, all of the same way of thinking, who were at the same time clever and well bred.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, however, the sacrifice is really voluntary, and it requires the active interference of the Government to prevent it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was at this time (but it changed curiously in 1914 and 1915) an active Germanophile section of the faculty.
-- Before they went to bed, the entire Healthette Octette sang the famous Health Hymn (written by Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh) which Martin was to hear on so many bright and active public occasions in Nautilus.
-- "Pickerbaugh is a good active man and a fine booster but he's got a bad socialistic tendency.
-- He had isolated twenty strains of staphylococcus germs and he was testing them to discover which of them was most active in producing a hemolytic, a blood-disintegrating toxin, so that he might produce an antitoxin.
-- She let the lady Maecenases of her acquaintance beguile her into several of their Causes, and she enjoyed them as she had enjoyed her active and entirely purposeless war work in 1917, for Joyce Lanyon was to some degree an Arranger, which was an epithet invented by Terry Wickett for Capitola McGurk.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is already of the rank of a counsellor, Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, and is distantly related to Marfa Petrovna, who has been very active in bringing the match about.
-- 568 Crime and PunishmentChapter IV askolnikov had been a vigorous and active champion Rof Sonia against Luzhin, although he had such a load of horror and anguish in his own heart.
-- Razumihin, in his youthful ardour, had firmly resolved to lay the foundations at least of a secure livelihood during the next three or four years, and saving up a certain sum, to emigrate to Siberia, a country rich in every natural resource and in need of work-ers, active men and capital.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wherefore Mr. Micawber (who was athoroughly good-natured man, and as active a creature abouteverything but his own affairs as ever existed, and never so happyas when he was busy about something that could never be of anyprofit to him) set to work at the petition, invented it, engrossed iton an immense sheet of paper, spread it out on a table, andappointed a time for all the club, and all within the walls if theychose, to come up to his room and sign it.
-- The business had beenindifferent under Mr. Jorkins, before Mr. Spenlow's time; andalthough it had been quickened by the infusion of new blood, andby the display which Mr. Spenlow made, still it was notestablished on a sufficiently strong basis to bear, without beingshaken, such a blow as the sudden loss of its active manager.
-- Some efforts were even then beingmade, to cut this portion of the wreck away; for, as the ship, whichwas broadside on, turned towards us in her rolling, I plainlydescried her people to work with axes, especially one active figurewith long curling hair, conspicuous among the rest.
-- As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity fromthe beach; four men arose with the wreck out of the deep, clingingto the rigging of the remaining mast; uppermost, the active figurewith the curling hair.
-- Another cry arose on shore; and looking to the wreck, we saw thecruel sail, with blow on blow, beat off the lower of the two men,and fly up in triumph round the active figure left alone upon themast.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wishes his boys to be active and hardy; and if they misbehave, can give them a sharp word now and then; but he is an affectionate father certainly Mr. John Knightley is an affectionate fa-ther.
-- It was fool-ish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One mouth in each front had been closed by bygone church-wardens as superfluous, and two others were broken away and choked a matter not of much consequence to the wellbeing of the tower, for the two mouths which still remained open and active were gaping enough to do all the work.
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