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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I had thought of that, and I have considered that if I can't appeal to your honour I can trust to your well, shrewdness we'll call it not to lose five hundred pounds in prospect, and also make a bitter enemy of a man who is willing to be an extremely useful friend."
-- Ah, well!let me take the name of drunkard humbly let me be a man of contrite knees let it be!I know that I always do say 'Please God' afore I do anything, from my getting up to my going down of the same, and I be willing to take as much disgrace as there is in that holy act.
-- She glided rapidly up and down the room, as was mostly her habit when excited, her hands hanging clasped in front of her, as she thought and in part expressed in broken words: "O, I hate her, yet I don't mean that I hate her, for it is grievous and wicked; and yet I hate her a little!Yes, my flesh insists upon hating her, whether my spirit is willing or no!...
-- What he would try to recognize was that the severe schooling she had been subjected to had made Bathsheba much more considerate than she had formerly been of the feelings of others, and he trusted that, should she be willing at any time in the future to marry any man at all, that man would be himself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe that in Paris it is very difficult to meet with a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman of fashion who would be willing to teach me, what you women can explain so well--life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If I didn't do so much for those trashy Slatterys that they'd have to pay money for elsewhere," fumed Gerald,"they'd be willing to sell me their miserable few acres of swamp bottom, and the County would be well rid of them."
-- But Scarlett intended to marry and marry Ashley and she was willing to appear demure, pliable and scatterbrained,if those were the qualities that attracted men.
-- He was willing to wait until her fears subsided, only only He sighed as he twisted about seeking a comfortable position, for he was going away to the war so verysoon.
-- Hethinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting forsomething you think is right."
-- She thought:"They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child.
-- And couldn't Uncle Pumblechook, being always considerate and thoughtful for us--though you may not think it, Joseph," in a tone of the deepest reproach, as if he were the most callous of nephews, "then mention this boy, standing Prancing here"--which I solemnly declare I was not doing--"that I have for ever been a willing slave to?"
-- "Since this house strikes you old and grave, boy," said Miss Havisham, impatiently, "and you are unwilling to play, are you willing to work?"
-- As to our lodging, it's not by any means splendid, because I have my own bread to earn, and my father hasn't anything to give me, and I shouldn't be willing to take it, if he had.
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr. Trabb called "formed" in the parlor, two and two,--and it was dreadfully like a preparation for some grim kind of dance; "which I meantersay, sir, as I would in preference have carried her to the church myself, along with three or four friendly ones wot come to it with willing harts and arms, but it were considered wot the neighbors would look down on such and would be of opinions as it were wanting in respect."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.
-- When the barrel began to roll, the shepherd cried: 'I am quite willing to be mayor.'
-- 'Well, father,' he replied, 'I am quite willing to learn something indeed, if it could but be managed, I should like to learn how to shudder.
-- But the old king was very angry when he saw how his daughter behaved, and how she ill-treated all his guests; 342 Grimms' Fairy Talesand he vowed that, willing or unwilling, she should marry the first man, be he prince or beggar, that came to the door.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then asked my master, 'whether he was willing to sell me at a good price?'
-- However, this is an extremity to which the prince is seldom driven, neither indeed is he willing to put it in execution; nor dare his ministers advise him to an action, which, as it would render them odious to the people, so it would be a great damage to their own estates, which all lie below; for the island is the king's demesne.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm willing to take her prentith, though at her age ith late.
-- I am willing to take charge of you, Jupe, and to educate you, and provide for you.
-- She was too sprightly to allow of their walking at a slow pace on her account, but she was very grateful to be talked to, and very willing to talk to any extent: so, when they came to their part of the town, she was more brisk and vivacious than ever.
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