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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has given me an extra pair of eyes upon a very active pair of feet, and both have been invaluable.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was one of those active persons who always find some good work with which to employ themselves.
-- Nina Alex-androvna is anxious, because he is 'thoughtful beyond his years,' but he will, we think, make a useful and active man.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over him did you then vaunt, O knight Pa-troclus, saying, 'Bless my heart, how active he is, and how well he dives.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The story he had been active to ridicule only that morning rushed through Kemp's brain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had long since lost speech and active movement, and the lank hair of the little brute grew thicker every day and his stumpy claws more askew.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what do you do on active ser-vice?'
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：
-- It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.
-- Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youth-ful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness.
-- In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.
-- Two powerful warriors cast themselves on Heyward, while another was occupied in securing the less active sing-ing-master.
-- Since the period of our tale the active spirit of the country has surrounded it with a belt of rich and thriving settlements, though none but the hunt- er or the savage is ever known even now to penetrate its wild recesses.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His usually active mind was occupied with one sole thought how he might get out of Richmond at any cost.
-- No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the next day, the 29th of March, fresh and active they awoke, ready to undertake the excursion which must determine their fate.
-- The light and active boy then sprang on the first branches, the arrangement of which made the ascent of the kauri easy, and in a few minutes he arrived at the summit, which emerged from the immense plain of verdure.
-- Gideon Spilett jokingly asked whether these active and merry quadrupeds did not consider him and his companions as degenerate brothers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This inquiry involved the respected lady in rather a delicate position, for she certainly had been an active party in making her daughter Mrs Quilp, and, besides, it was not supporting the family credit to encourage the idea that she had married a man whom nobody else would have.
-- The water and all upon it was in active motion, dancing and buoyant and bubbling up; while the old grey Tower and piles of building on the shore, with many a church-spire shooting up between, looked coldly on, and seemed to disdain their chafing, restless neighbour.
-- It may, at first sight, be matter of surprise to the thoughtless few that Mr Brass, being a professional gentleman, should not have legally indicted some party or parties, active in the promotion of the nuisance, but they will be good enough to remember, that as Doctors seldom take their own prescriptions, and Divines do not always practise what they preach, so lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving, than for its always shaving the right person.
-- But, astounded as he was by the apparition of the dwarf among the Little Bethelites, and not free from a misgiving that it was the forerunner of some trouble or annoyance, he was compelled to subdue his wonder and to take active measures for the withdrawal of his parent, as the evening was now creeping on, and the matter grew serious.
-- That done, he gave her his arm and escorted her into the house, while several active waiters ran on before as a skirmishing party, to clear the way and to show the room which was ready for their reception.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seven years before he had retired from active service he decided that his true vocation in life was painting, and from the height of his artistic activity he looked down upon all other occupations.
-- It commenced with his removal to St. Petersburg, and ended with his entry upon active service.
-- Dmitri was going to active service, where he might be wounded or killed.
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