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 wondered how he could have been wandering for a good half- hour, wor-ried and anxious in this dangerous past without thinking of it before.
-- He was evidently anxious to make a favourable impression and his vanity overcame his prudence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 脗路 'And I hope I should have improved, being very anxious to learn, and he very patient to teach, if the great misfortune of his death'- my mother broke down again here, and could get no farther.
-- But,though I looked all around with anxious eyes, I could see nothingof him.
-- But the changeto which I now refer was superadded to this: it was in her manner,which became anxious and fluttered.
-- If I cameinto the room where they were, and they were talking together andmy mother seemed cheerful, an anxious cloud would steal over herface from the moment of my entrance.
-- I was very anxious to know what was going to be done withme, and so was Peggotty; but neither she nor I could pick up anyinformation on the subject.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I either depend more upon Emma's good sense than you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament the acquaintance.
-- The looking over his letter again, in replying to it, had such a softening tendency, that it was particularly necessary to brace her up with a few decisive expressions; and she was so very much concerned at the idea of making him unhappy, and thought so much of what his mother and sisters would think and say, and was so anxious that they should not fan-cy her ungrateful, that Emma believed if the young man had come in her way at that moment, he would have been accepted after all.
-- 'Come,' said he, 'you are anxious for a compliment, so I will tell you that you have improved her.
-- If they are anxious to see you happily married, here is a man whose amiable character gives every assurance of it; if they wish to have you settled in the same country and circle which they have chosen to place you in, here it will be accomplished; and if their only object is that you should, in the common phrase, be well married, here is the comfortable fortune, the respectable establishment, the rise in the world which must satisfy them.'
-- If he had been anxious for secrecy, he would not have left the paper while I was by; but he rather pushed it towards me than towards you.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ay, that we do, sure," said Matthew Moon, with a small anxious laugh towards Oak, to show how very friendly disposed he was likewise.
-- It was an anxious quarter of an hour that intervened between the messenger's departure and the sound of the horse's tramp again outside.
-- Oak was not bound by his agreement to assist in the corn-field; but the harvest month is an anxious time for a farmer, and the corn was Bathsheba's, so he lent a hand.
-- Moreover, should he resolve not to return at all, a tale of his being alive and being in the neighbourhood would be awkward; and he was anxious to acquire a knowledge of his wife's temporal affairs before deciding which to do.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment, therefore, M. d'Ajuda-Pinto was on thorns, and anxious to take his leave.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own sit-uation.
-- When my dearest aunt died every one was too much oc-cupied in their own grief to notice poor Justine, who had 69attended her during her illness with the most anxious affec-tion.
-- But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self; he was 192 Frankensteininquisitive and anxious to gain experience and instruction.
-- This winter has been passed most miserably, tortured 229as I have been by anxious suspense; yet I hope to see peace in your countenance and to find that your heart is not to-tally void of comfort and tranquillity.
-- I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors;but the delicate question of money arose.
-- With her younger daughters, she hadsuccess, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings,and Carreen was shy and easily led.
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