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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It distracted her from her thoughts and she was very anxious toarrange both her thoughts and her face in attractive lines before reaching Twelve Oaks.
-- "A change of scene will be the best thing in the world for her," said the doctor, only too anxious to be rid of anunsatisfactory patient.
-- All ages and sexes went visiting, honeymooners, young mothersshowing off new babies, convalescents, the bereaved, girls whose parents were anxious to remove them from thedangers of unwise matches, girls who had reached the danger age without becoming engaged and who, it was hoped,would make suitable matches under the guidance of relatives in other places.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Dressed like you, you know, only with a hat," I explained, trembling; "and--and"--I was very anxious to put this delicately--"and with--the same reason for wanting to borrow a file.
-- When he had talked with me a little, he said to Mrs. Pocket, with a rather anxious contraction of his eyebrows, which were black and handsome, "Belinda, I hope you have welcomed Mr.
-- There were some people slinking about as usual when we passed out into the street, who were evidently anxious to speak with him; but there was something so conclusive in the halo of scented soap which encircled his presence, that they gave it up for that day.
-- May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most particularly anxious to be married?"
-- Equally in his stopping at the bars and attending to anxious whisperers,--always singly,--Wemmick with his post-office in an immovable state, looked at them while in conference, as if he were taking particular notice of the advance they had made, since last observed, towards coming out in full blow at their trial.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 132 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM here was once a miller who had one beautiful daugh-Tter, and as she was grown up, he was anxious that she should be well married and provided for.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And the worst of all is, that although my poor father wished me so much to learn, and although I am so anxious to learn, because he wished me to, I am afraid I don't like it.'
-- 'Never fret about them, Stephen,' she answered quickly, and not without an anxious glance at his face.
-- Never fear, good people of an anxious turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion.
-- You have poured balm into my anxious soul.
-- said Stephen, with an anxious smile; 'when ha we not heern, I am sure, sin ever we can call to mind, o' th' mischeevous strangers!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I watched him with anxious eyes.
-- To a certain extent I was anxious to be off.
-- In fact, I was only too anxious not to interrupt him, and allowed him to reflect at his leisure.
-- I was naturally anxious not to lose sight of my companions.
-- I was extremely anxious to hear if this strange and inexplicable sound was likely to be renewed!A whole quarter of an hour elapsed in painful expectation.
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：
-- It was obvious in the anxious brightness of his eyes, how proud he was, after the great shock, of being alive.
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
-- Out of the disapproving silence came Berry's anxious question: 'You do believe in love then, Tommy, don't you?'
-- Mick sat on tenterhooks, leaning forward in his chair, glaring at her almost hysterically: and whether he was more anxious out of vanity for her to say Yes!or whether he was more panic-stricken for fear she SHOULD say Yes! who can tell?
-- But still one little trio was pattering about on tiny feet, alert drab mites, under the straw shelter, refusing to be called in by the anxious mother.
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