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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes she thought she ought not to have come under any circumstances; then she considered what cold unkindness that would have been, and finally resolved upon the middle course of staying for about an hour only, and gliding off unobserved, having from the first made up her mind that she could on no account dance, sing, or take any active part in the proceedings.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the be-ing to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
-- About five in the morning I dis-covered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murderer's finger was on his neck.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had an active contempt.
-- He just isn't upto active service, Scarlett.
-- Scarlett had no shame at all, only an active feeling of relief.
-- Added to her terror of being blown to pieces was her equally active terror that Melanie's baby might arrive at anymoment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Could she, who had been so active in the getting up of the funeral triumph, do less than exult?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This native of Iceland was active and supple in appearance, though he scarcely moved his arms, being in fact one of those men who despise the habit of gesticulation common to southern people.
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：
-- They want to be the active party. Then there's the sort that's just dead inside: but dead: and they know it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mother, this is a change from your old active habits.'
-- They seemed, however, to be more directly concerned than the others had been in the effective execution of the great principle of the office, as there was an awful inner apartment with a double door, in which the Circumlocution Sages appeared to be assembled in council, and out of which there was an imposing coming of papers, and into which there was an imposing going of papers, almost constantly; wherein another gentleman, number four, was the active instrument.
-- Now, that Mr Merdle was already at no loss to discover means of occupying even his capital, and of fully employing even his active and vigorous intellect, Bar well knew: but he would venture to suggest that the question arose in his mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a position and so European a reputation did not owe it we would not say to himself, but we would say to Society, to possess himself of such influences as these; and to exercise them we would not say for his own, or for his party's, but we would say for Society's benefit.
-- It left Arthur in possession of private personal means not exceeding a few hundred pounds; but it opened to him an active and promising career.
-- Mr Meagles and his family, under these combined discouragements, had begun reluctantly to give up Tattycoram as irrecoverable, when the new and active firm of Doyce and Clennam, in their private capacities, went down on a Saturday to stay at the cottage until Monday.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
-- Frank, sitting just behind the little girls, heard what they were saying, and pushed his crutch away from him with an impatient gesture as he watched the active lads going through all sorts of comical gymnastics.
-- Her once active limbs were so stiff and feeble that Jo took her for a daily airing about the house in her strong arms.
-- Hat and coat were off, and every line of the active figure, resolute face, and commanding attitude was full of energy and meaning.
-- asked the young phi-losopher, surveying those active portions of his frame with a meditative air, while resting after a go-to-bed frolic one night.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
-- He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
-- Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase.
-- For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.
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