anxious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 焦虑的， 担心的； 急于(得到的) ， 渴望的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedi-ence to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was.
-- She was expecting some one, and with anxious eager-ness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; 92 Sons and Loverstried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Manette had taken some refreshment on the road, and required none then, and was extremely anxious to see the gentleman from Tellson's immediately, if it suited his pleasure and convenience.
-- Her forehead was painfully anxious and intent as she gave this evidence, and, in the pauses when she stopped for the Judge to write it down, watched its effect upon the counsel for and against.
-- 'You will naturally be anxious to hear of the witness, Miss Manette.
-- From these pilgrimages to the jug and basin, he returned with such eccentricities of damp headgear as no words can describe; which were made the more ludicrous by his anxious gravity.
-- Enough!Now, my dear Lu-cie,' drawing his arm soothingly round her waist, 'I hear them moving in the next room, and Miss Pross and I, as two formal folks of business, are anxious not to lose the fi-nal opportunity of saying something to you that you wish to hear.
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：
-- All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ig-norant, their neighbors might prove to be.
-- The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he went on, obviously anxious to change the conversation.
-- However, she was so anxious for the marriage itself, and still more for relief from her fears, that she believed it was so.
-- "All the same, Anna, to tell you the truth, I'm not very anxious for this marriage for Kitty.
-- Still in the same anxious frame of mind, as she had been all that day, Anna took pleasure in arranging herself for the journey with great care.
-- Just now, with all her own cares, she's anxious about the Oblonskys being brought together."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why was this robber so anxious to prove, by the visa, that he had passed through Suez?"
-- "Mr. Fogg, I suppose, is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama?"
-- "It would be prudent for us to retire," said Fix, who was anxious that Mr. Fogg should not receive any injury, at least until they got back to London.
-- They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys.
-- Passepartout grew more and more impatient as they went on, while Fix longed to get out of this difficult region, and was more anxious than Phileas Fogg himself to be beyond the danger of delays and accidents, and set foot on English soil.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gosh, it's fierce I had to miss the select pleasures of an evening with Anxious Duer and associated highboys, and merely play a low game of poker--in which Father deftly removed the sum of six simolea, point ten, from the fore-gathered bums and yahoos.
-- Explain to him, also to his stricken and anxious family, the hard work and thought you are giving to his case, and so make him feel that the good you have done him, or intend to do him, is even greater than the fee you plan to charge.
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：
-- He looked repeatedly at the clerk, partly no doubt because the latter was staring persistently at him, obviously anxious to enter into conversation.
-- To suit his own arrangements he is anxious to have the ceremony as soon as possible, even before the fast of Our Lady, if it could be managed, or if that is too soon to be ready, immediate-ly after.
-- The assistant superintendent, still shaken by Raskol-nikov's disrespect, still fuming and obviously anxious to keep up his wounded dignity, pounced on the unfortunate smart lady, who had been gazing at him ever since he came in with an exceedingly silly smile.
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