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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
-- Lady Helena began to get anxious as the day wore on.
-- Glenarvan displayed the greatest activity about the preparations, for he was anxious to be ready by the appointed day.
-- "Most certainly," replied Glenarvan; and anxious to give a less gloomy turn to the conversation, he added—"But I won't admit the supposition of his being lost, not for an instant."
-- repeated Ayrton, as if particularly anxious on that score.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is now, perhaps, sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was nothing near so anxious about my own danger, though, had the powder took fire, I should never have known who had hurt me.
-- I was so anxious to see it kept entire, lest the goats should break through, that I never left off till, with infinite labour, I had stuck the outside of the hedge so full of small stakes, and so near to one an-other, that it was rather a pale than a hedge, and there was scarce room to put a hand through between them; which af-terwards, when those stakes grew, as they all did in the next rainy season, made the enclosure strong like a wall, indeed stronger than any wall.
-- Thus, fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself, when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about: and what was worse than all this, I had not that relief in this trouble that from the resignation I used to practise I hoped to have.
-- The only difficulty in it was the entrance - which, however, as it was a place of security, and such a retreat as I wanted; I thought was a convenience; so that I was really rejoiced at the discovery, and resolved, without any delay, to bring some of those things which I was most anxious about to this place: particularly, I resolved to bring hither my magazine of powder, and all my spare arms - viz.
-- Friday would fain have had me take one of their canoes, and pursue them; and indeed I was very anxious about their escape, lest, car-rying the news home to their people, they should come back perhaps with two or three hundred of the canoes and de-vour us by mere multitude; so I consented to pursue them by sea, and running to one of their canoes, I jumped in and bade Friday follow me: but when I was in the canoe I was surprised to find another poor creature lie there, bound hand and foot, as the Spaniard was, for the slaughter, and almost dead with fear, not knowing what was the matter; for he had not been able to look up over the side of the boat, he was tied so hard neck and heels, and had been tied so long that he had really but little life in him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed really anxious to accommodate them and the whole of his letter was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of giving pleasure to his cousin; more especially at a moment when she was suffering under the cold and unfeeling behaviour of her nearer connections.
-- They were, of course, very anxious to see a person on whom so much of their comfort at Barton must depend; and the elegance of her appearance was favourable to their wishes.
-- Mrs. Jennings had been anxious to see Colonel Brandon well married, ever since her connection with Sir John first brought him to her knowledge; and she was always anxious to get a good husband for every pretty girl.
-- Your mother will secure to you, in time, that independence you are so anxious for; it is her duty, and it will, it must ere long become her happiness to prevent your whole youth from being wasted in discontent.
-- Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer joined their entreaties, all seemed equally anxious to avoid a family party; and the young ladies were obliged to yield.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, it affected the entire atmosphere of the flat, as such things are inclined to do, and gave to his wife's mind its subdued and tactful turn, anxious to avoid taciturn replies.
-- Even Hurstwood was doing well enough, and she was anxious that his small real estate adventures should prosper.
-- "Rather anxious about you though.
-- questioned Drouet, anxious to terminate the subject and get on to something else.
-- He was anxious to see the woman who had stirred him so profoundly the night before.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cuss you, I can see now why you was so anxious to make up the deffisit you wanted to get what money I'd got out of the Nonesuch and one thing or anoth-er, and scoop it ALL!'
-- So that cooled them down a little, be- cause the people that's always the most anxious for to hang a nig-ger that hain't done just right is always the very ones that ain't the most anxious to pay for him when they've got their satisfaction out of him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At so much noise, the people hung out of the windows or gathered in the street, anxious to see the end of the contest.
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