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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This they would destroy, and pitched their camp about it, but when they had crossed their whole plain, Minerva darted down by night from Olympus and bade us set our-selves in array; and she found willing soldiers in Pylos, for the men meant fighting.
-- Now, therefore, lead on where you would have us go, and we will follow with right goodwill; you shall not find us fail you in so far as our strength holds out, but no man can do more than in him lies, no matter how willing he may be.'
-- I knew when Jove was willing to defend us, and I know now that he is raising the Trojans to like honour with the gods, while us, on the other hand, he bas bound hand and foot.
-- Ajax knew the hand of heaven in this, and was dismayed at seeing that Jove had now left him utterly defenceless and was willing victory for the Trojans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever you want done, that I'm most willing to do."
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shere Khan heard the thunder of their hoofs, picked himself up, and lumbered down the ravine, looking from side to side for some way of escape, but the walls of the ravine were straight and he had to hold on, heavy with his dinner and his drink, willing to do anything rather than fight.
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：
-- When the summit was gained, they found themselves on a level spot, but thinly covered with trees, under one of which Magua had thrown his dark form, as if willing and ready to seek that rest which was so much needed by the whole party.
-- 'Listen,' said the Indian, laying his hand firmly upon her arm, as if willing to draw her utmost attention to his words; a movement that Cora as firmly but quietly repulsed, by ex-tricating the limb from his grasp: 'Magua was born a chief and a warrior among the red Hurons of the lakes; he saw the suns of twenty summers make the snows of twenty win-ters run off in the streams before he saw a pale face; and he was happy!Then his Canada fathers came into the woods, and taught him to drink the fire-water, and he became a rascal.
-- However, as flesh and blood are not always the same, it is quite reasonable to sup-pose that the gentle ones are willing to rest, after all they have seen and done this day.
-- The scout seemed willing to comply; but, in the hurry of the moment, and in the change of position, he had lost the direction.
-- Willing to divert a distress which threatened each moment to break through the restraint of appearances, by giving the veteran some-thing to do, the young man said to the scout: 'As we now possess these infallible signs, let us com-mence our march.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
-- I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
-- "She's willing to forget everything that's happened and start afresh.
-- Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours.
-- "If you want to divorce him, he's quite willing to do whatever is necessary to make it possible."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the conviction was an unwelcome one, and that he was by no means willing to yield to it, was apparent from his reluctance to quit the spot; from the tardy steps with which he often left it, still looking over his shoulder at the same window; and from the precipitation with which he as often returned, when a fancied noise or the changing and imperfect light induced him to suppose it had been softly raised.
-- Mr Codlin followed with a willing mind, and soon found that the landlord had not commended his preparations without good reason.
-- But the tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling from his pupils it was plain.
-- In a word, the single gentleman was bursting out of the office, bent upon laying violent hands on Kit's mother, forcing her into a post-chaise, and carrying her off, when this novel kind of abduction was with some difficulty prevented by the joint efforts of Mr Abel and the Notary, who restrained him by dint of their remonstrances, and persuaded him to sound Kit upon the probability of her being able and willing to undertake such a journey on so short a notice.
-- All others he was willing to forget.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.
-- Immediately all that which so tortured her that she was willing to die, all her wrath and her desire to revenge herself even by death, passed.
-- He was the more willing to carry on a conversation because the broken-down, lame, emaciated, foaming shaft-horse could then walk, which these horses always preferred.
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