willing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 愿意的， 乐意的， 心甘情愿的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures found only among women who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.
-- Monseigneur gone, and the three strong men absolving themselves from the sin of having drawn his high wages, by being more than ready and willing to cut his throat on the altar of the dawning Republic one and indivisible of Liber-ty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, Monseigneur's house had been first sequestrated, and then confiscated.
-- She had not been married many weeks, when that man's brother saw her and admired her, and asked that man to lend her to him for what are hus-bands among us!He was willing enough, but my sister was good and virtuous, and hated his brother with a hatred as strong as mine.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Modestia is a fine virtue,' continued the gentleman; 'however, as to your speech, I must say mihi secus videtur: yet I am willing to suspend my judicium.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He scanned the bookcases and bookshelves, and with the same dubious air with which he had regarded the snipe, he smiled contemptuously and hook his head disapprovingly, as though by no means willing to allow that this game were worth the candle.
-- In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former days the free-thinker was a man who had been brought up in ideas of religion, law, and morality, and only through conflict and struggle came to free-thought; but now there has sprung up a new type of born free-thinkers who grow up without even having heard of principles of morality or of religion, of the existence of authorities, who grow up directly in ideas of negation in everything, that is to say, savages.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They poured more coffee into him and (on the advice of Clif Clawson, who wasn't exactly sure what the effect might be but who was willing to learn) they fed him a potassium bromide tablet.
-- He wrote to Dr. Entwisle, hinting that he was willing to hear an offer.
-- Entwisle presented the faculty's compliments and their hope that some time they might have the honor of his presence, but as things were now-- Gottlieb wrote to the University of West Chippewa that, after all, he was willing to think about their medical deanship .
-- Gottlieb had asserted that they produced doubtful vaccines, yet he returned from Chicago to write to Dawson Hunziker that he was no longer interested in teaching, and he would be willing to work for them on half time if he might use their laboratories, on possibly important research, for the rest of the day.
-- However abstracted and impractical, Gottlieb would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes--if anybody who would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes would have been willing to be a detective.
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：
-- She is such a soft, gentle creature, ready to put up with anything, always willing, willing to do anything.
-- You surely would not be willing actually to betray your brother?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was not judicious, sir, 98I am willing to admit,' said Mr. Mell.
-- Thus it cameabout, that I heard of his making little treats for the fishermen atMr. Peggotty's house of call, 'The Willing Mind,' after I was in bed,and of his being afloat, wrapped in fishermen's clothes, wholemoonlight nights, and coming back when the morning tide was atflood.
-- '"J. Steerforth, Esquire, debtor, to the Willing Mind";that's not it.
-- I was willing to doanything to relieve Mr. James from his difficulty, and to restore 619harmony between himself and an affectionate parent, who hasundergone so much on his account.
-- My aunt observed,that in a case where both parties were willing to agree to anything,she took it for granted there would be no difficulty in settling thispoint.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' said Emma, willing to let it pass 'you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.
-- But I could not reason so to a man in love, and was willing to trust to there being no harm in her, to her having that sort of disposition, which, in good hands, like his, might be easily led aright and turn out very well.
-- The plan of a drain, the change of a fence, the felling of a tree, and the destination of every acre for wheat, turnips, or spring corn, was entered into with as much equality of interest by John, as his cooler manners rendered possible; and if his willing brother ever left him any thing to inquire about, his inquiries even approached a tone of eagerness.
-- He paused and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, 'If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of an hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or incon-venience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself.'
-- Mrs. Churchill rules at Enscombe, and is a very odd-tempered woman; and his coming now, depends 148 Emmaupon her being willing to spare him.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And if I can believe in any way that I shall make you a good wife I shall indeed be willing to marry you.
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