agency是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 代理商(社)，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：
-- 'In your opinion there is a diabolical agency which makes Dartmoor an unsafe abode for a Baskerville that is your opinion?'
-- This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I am conscious always of power and de-sign.
-- Was there a human agency in the matter?
-- And always, apart from the hound, there is the fact of the human agency in London, the man in the cab, and the letter which warned Sir Henry against the moor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 304 A tale of two cities Who gave them out, whence they last came, where they began, through what agency they crookedly quivered and jerked, scores at a time, over the heads of the crowd, like a kind of lightning, no eye in the throng could have told; but, muskets were being distributed so were cartridges, powder, and ball, bars of iron and wood, knives, axes, pikes, every weapon that distracted ingenuity could discover or devise.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the post of secretary of the committee of the amalgamated agency of the southern railways, and of certain banking companies.
-- "Oh, by the way," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, "I wanted to ask you, some time when you see Pomorsky, to drop him a hint that I should be very glad to get that new appointment of secretary of the committee of the amalgamated agency of the southern railways and banking companies."
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：
-- Si-lently, and without a moment's delay, they permitted him to assist them from their saddles, and when they descended quickly to the water's edge, where the scout had collected the rest of the party, more by the agency of expressive ges-tures than by any use of words.
-- However implicit the faith of David was in the perfor-mance of ancient miracles, he eschewed the belief of any direct supernatural agency in the management of modern morality.
-- He saw, at once, that this wily savage had some secret agency in their present arraignment before the nation, and determined to throw every possible impedi-ment in the way of the execution of his sinister plans.
-- But, at that moment, when he appeared most a stranger to the feelings of human-ity, the purpose of the savage was arrested as suddenly as if a supernatural agency had interposed in the behalf of Un-cas.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is on the floor above the Kellett Shipping Agency and the shop where the Chinaman who is supposed to be a graduate of Oxford sells carved tortoise, and cocoanuts in the horrible likeness of a head shrunken by headhunters.
-- Clif was not to be found, neither at the motor agency for which he had once worked nor elsewhere on Automobile Row.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But,' said Traddles, 'the surplus that would be left as his means ofsupportand I suppose the house to be sold, even in saying this-would be so small, not exceeding in all probability some hundredsof pounds, that perhaps, Miss Wickfield, it would be best toconsider whether he might not retain his agency of the estate towhich he has so long been receiver.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is fair to remark that there was no prohibition against any pupil's entertaining himself with a slate or even with the ink (when there was any), but that it was not easy to pursue that branch of study in the winter season, on account of the little general shop in which the classes were holden--and which was also Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's sitting-room and bedchamber--being but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low-spirited dip-candle and no snuffers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Rugg was a lady of a little property which she had acquired, together with much distinction in the neighbourhood, by having her heart severely lacerated and her feelings mangled by a middle-aged baker resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage.
-- Dear, dear, dear!What a real pity that she stayed so short a time, and you delayed!As confidential agency business, agency business, I have occasionally paid this lady money; but what satisfaction is it to you, sir, to know that?'
-- He observed anew that wherever he went, he saw, or heard, or touched, the celebrated name of Merdle; he found it difficult even to remain at his desk a couple of hours, without having it presented to one of his bodily senses through some agency or other.
-- Arthur had no choice but to say that his informant had not become known to him through the agency of any such credentials, or indeed of any credentials at all.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.
-- Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved me; with a shock I came back to life.
-- The wind that made great bellies of their sails, and rushed the vessel on by arms invisible as irresistible; this seemed the symbol of that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.
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