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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was quite willing to start at daybreak, however, for they had to get to Lake Salinas before sundown.
-- The brave boy listened with all his ears, ready to be of use, and willing to enlist in any perilous adventure.
-- There was not one among the brave fellows whose heart did not swell at the thought of seeing his own country once more; and yet there was not one among them either who would not have been willing to brave the perils of the sea for a long time still if they could but find Captain Grant.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would have insisted on sending to Petersburg at once, for a certain great medical celebrity; but her daughters dis-suaded her, though they were not willing to stay behind when she at once prepared to go and visit the invalid.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men of Myce-nae were willing to let them have one, but Jove dissuaded them by showing them unfavourable omens.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are not married, nor can I find there was any intention of being so; but if you are willing to perform the engagements which I have ventured to make on your side, I hope it will not be long before they are.
-- It is Mr. Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are still some who are able and willing to assist him in the army.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
-- Upon this I lowered the top of my sail and lay by, and two of them ran up into the country, and in less than half-an- hour came back, and brought with them two pieces of dried flesh and some corn, such as is the produce of their country; but we neither knew what the one or the other was; however, we were willing to accept it, but how to come at it was our next dispute, for I would not venture on shore to them, and they were as much afraid of us; but they took a safe way for us all, for they brought it to the shore and laid it down, and went and stood a great way off till we fetched it on board, and then came close to us again.
-- I found quickly the negroes wished to eat the flesh of this creature, so I was willing to have them take it as a favour from me; which, when I made signs to them that they might take him, they were very thankful for.
-- However, when I let him know my reason, he owned it to be just, and offered me this medium, that he would give the boy an obligation to set him free in ten years, if he turned Christian: upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to go to him, I let the captain have him.
-- The generous treatment the captain gave me I can nev-er enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax - for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Bra-zils.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was willing to shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes."
-- Pleased to find herself more comfortably situated in that particular than she had expected, Elinor was very willing to compound for the want of much real enjoyment from any of their evening parties, which, whether at home or abroad, formed only for cards, could have little to amuse her.
-- said Edward, willing to say any thing that might introduce another subject.
-- The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion; they did not spring up of themselves; they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first. No, Marianne. THEN, if I had not been bound to silence, perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely not even what I owed to my dearest friends from openly shewing that I was VERY unhappy.
-- Mrs. Jennings, however, with a kindness of heart which made Elinor really love her, declared her resolution of not stirring from Cleveland as long as Marianne remained ill, and of endeavouring, by her own attentive care, to supply to her the place of the mother she had taken her from; and Elinor found her on every occasion a most willing and active helpmate, desirous to share in all her fatigues, and often by her better experience in nursing, of material use.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she came within earshot of their pleading, desire in her bent a willing ear.
-- He would take off his hat, and would silence the light-tongued and the vicious in her presence--much as the Irish keeper of a Bowery hall will humble himself before a Sister of Mercy, and pay toll to charity with a willing and reverent hand.
-- She was perfectly willing that he should enjoy himself in his way, but she did not care to be neglected herself.
-- In his almost inexplicable apathy he was content to droop supinely while Carrie drifted out of his life, just as he was willing supinely to see opportunity pass beyond his control.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she got to talking about her husband, and about her rela- tions up the riv-er, and her relations down the river, and about how much better off they used to was, and how they didn't know but they'd made a mistake coming to our town, instead of let-ting well alone and so on and so on, till I was afeard I had made a mistake coming to her to find out what was going on in the town; but by and by she dropped on to pap and the murder, and then I was pretty willing to let her clatter right along.
-- But I don't care, I don't mind the terms I'd be willing to stand a thousand such jokes to have you here.
-- But I couldn't make out how he was willing to go into this thing; so I just let it go, and never bothered no more about it.
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