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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was far more willing to allow that this chimney of an extinct volcano was covered by lava of a kind refractory to heat--in fact a bad conductor--which did not allow the great increase of temperature to percolate through its sides.
-- I was quite willing to think that I had made a mistake, but not that I was lost.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, I am quite willing to ex-change roe-deer for colliers, at the price.
-- So he made no trouble at all about leaving at the end of next week, and apparently is willing to initiate a young fellow, Joe Chambers, into as many mysteries of the craft as possible.
-- And if one day you think Sir Clifford may be willing to divorce me, let me know, will you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From time to time there were public complaints, pathetically going about, of labour being scarce which certain people seemed to take extraordinarily ill, as though they had an absolute right to it on their own terms but Bleeding Heart Yard, though as willing a Yard as any in Britain, was never the better for the demand.
-- He is willing to take you back, my dear, if you are sensible of the favour and choose to go.
-- Mistress Affery, heartily glad to effect the proposed compromise, gave in her willing adhesion to it.
-- Mrs General, replying to the envoy, as she set down her empty coffee-cup, that she was willing at once to proceed to Mr Dorrit's apartment, and spare him the trouble of coming to her (which, in his gallantry, he had proposed), the envoy threw open the door, and escorted Mrs General to the presence.
-- 'Wherever you go, they'll find as they've got a man among 'em, a man as knows his tools and as his tools knows, a man as is willing and a man as is able, and if that's not a man, where is a man!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marmee is willing we should go, now what shall we wear?'
-- So did mine, but I proved to her that I had talent by tak-ing a few lessons privately, and then she was quite willing I should go on.
-- And if you grow like him she won't be willing to have us frolic together as we do now.'
-- And Amy, in her exile, longed eagerly to be at home, that she might work for Beth, feeling now that no service would be hard or irksome, and remembering, with regretful grief, how many neglected tasks those willing hands had done for her.
-- 'I couldn't do better if I waited half my life!John is good and wise, he's got heaps of talent, he's willing to work and sure to get on, he's so energetic and brave.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.
-- So that in many cases such a panic did he finally strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his jaw.
-- Such was the state of his mouth, that he could hardly speak; but mumbling something about his being willing and able to do what the captain dared not attempt, he snatched the rope and advanced to his pinioned foe.
-- For, spite of her leak, and spite of all her other perils, the Town-Ho still maintained her mast-heads, and her captain was just as willing to lower for a fish that moment, as on the day his craft first struck the cruising ground; and Radney the mate was quite as ready to change his berth for a boat, and with his bandaged mouth seek to gag in death the vital jaw of the whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He's as willing as a Christian, strike me blind if he isn't!'
-- After some discussion, in which all three took an active part, it was decided that Nancy should repair to the Jew's next evening when the night had set in, and bring Oliver away with her; Fagin craftily observing, that, if he evinced any disinclination to the task, he would be more willing to accompany the girl who had so recently interfered in his behalf, than anybody else.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Allowing for the common demands of the game, Mr. Wickham was therefore at leisure to talk to Eliz-abeth, and she was very willing to hear him, though what she chiefly wished to hear she could not hope to be told the history of his acquaintance with Mr. Darcy.
-- He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins, from a conviction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success might be known likewise; for though feeling almost secure, and with reason, for Char- lotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
-- So imprudent a match on both sides!But I am willing to hope the best, and that his character has been misunderstood.
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