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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That means that while they are, as we have seen, very anxious to watch him, they are equally anxious that he should not see them.
-- 'My brother is very anxious to have the Hall inhabited, for he thinks it is for the good of the poor folk upon the moor.
-- My feelings towards him were very far from being friend-ly after what I had heard of his treatment of his daughter, but I was anxious to send Perkins and the wagonette home, and the opportunity was a good one.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation.
-- Clearly he was not at all anxious to bring the conversation to an end.
-- 'If you are really very anxious for a smoke,' he remarked, 'I think it might pos-sibly be managed, if you are very quick about it.
-- There certainly is one question upon which I am anxious to have advice, but ' 'Tell me, how do you intend to live now, and what are your plans?'
-- 'Oh dear no, oh no!As for a situation, I should much like to find one for I am anxious to discover what I really am fit for.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you think Jove will be as anxious to help the Trojans, as he was about his own son?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And I'm very naturally anxious to get on with my inquiries."
-- "And before I take any bills or get any breakfasts, or do any such things whatsoever, you got to tell me one or two things I don't understand, and what nobody don't understand, and what everybody is very anxious to understand.
-- Five minutes afterwards when a second cabman pushed his head in cautiously, they were still waiting, and an anxious face peered out of the bar-parlour and supplied information.
-- I don't know what your plans are, but of course I'm anxious to help you."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed anxious to lay stress on the fact that I owed my life to him.
-- I suddenly turned away and thrust myself violently, possibly even frantically, through the bushes, anxious to get a clear space about me again.
-- I was anxious not to show the fear that seemed chilling my backbone.
-- To tell you the truth, I feel anxious somehow.'
-- I was anxious to be alone, to think out the posi-tion in which I was now placed.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the anxious mothers would take up the call: 'Look look well, O Wolves!'
-- Then Kaa came straight, quickly, and anxious to kill.
-- The chil-dren had told the village about the buffalo stampede, and Buldeo went out angrily, only too anxious to correct Mowg-li for not taking better care of the herd.
-- The buffaloes were anxious enough to get to the village.
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
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：
-- As the credulous and excited traveler related the hazardous chances of the wil-derness, the blood of the timid curdled with terror, and mothers cast anxious glances even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns.
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