infinite是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无限的， 无穷的n. 无限，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：
-- Every quarter of a mile they had to turn aside or go around for some obstacle, and thus incurred great fatigue; but what a strange sight met their eyes!What infinite variety nature lavishes on her great panoramas!
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：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You can't think how good she is, sir,' said Little Dorrit, with infinite tenderness.
-- How, after interminable attendance and correspondence, after infinite impertinences, ignorances, and insults, my lords made a Minute, number three thousand four hundred and seventy-two, allowing the culprit to make certain trials of his invention at his own expense.
-- There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; bits of mummy from Egypt (and perhaps Birmingham); model gondolas from Venice; model villages from Switzerland; morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of Vesuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slippers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarves, Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cameos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber.
-- Her sister he considered somewhat vain and proud, but a young lady of infinite accomplishments, who could not forget the past.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, dear,' thought Meg, 'married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says.'
-- You are too much alike and too fond of free-dom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.'
-- asked Laurie, leaning back and folding his arms, a proceeding which suited Amy, who pre-ferred to drive, for her parasol whip and blue reins over the white ponies backs afforded her infinite satisfaction.
-- Teddy thinks nothing too good for her,' returned Jo with infinite satisfaction.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
-- There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves.
-- Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.
-- The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
-- 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.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But on returning to the drawing-room, when her letter was finished, she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was rea-son to fear that her mother had been too ingenious for her.
-- 'Lady Catherine has been of infinite use, which ought to make her happy, for she loves to be of use.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carried all my riches, all my provisions, ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made a large tent, which to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double - one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it; and covered the up-permost with a large tarpaulin, which I had saved among the sails.
-- However, I made abundance of things, even without tools; and some with no more tools than an adze and a hatchet, which perhaps were never made that way before, and that with infinite labour.
-- Here was also an infinite number of fowls of many kinds, some which I had seen, and some which I had not seen before, and many of them very good meat, but such as I knew not the names of, except those called penguins.
-- So, after a great deal of time lost in searching for a stone, I gave it over, and resolved to look out for a great block of hard wood, which I found, indeed, much easier; and getting one as big as I had strength to stir, I rounded it, and formed it on the outside with my axe and hatchet, and then with the help of fire and infinite labour, made a hollow place in it, as the Indians in Brazil make their canoes.
-- It was not without infinite labour that I felled this tree; I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bottom; I was fourteen more getting the branches and limbs and the vast spreading head cut off, which I hacked and hewed through with axe and hatchet, and inexpressible labour; after this, it cost me a month to shape it and dub it to a proportion, and to something like the bottom of a boat, that it might swim upright as it ought to do.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a softness in the air which speaks with an infinite delicacy of feeling to the flesh as well as to the soul.
-- He could not see the look of infinite weariness and discontent Carrie gave him.
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