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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if I may judge from the reviews, many of these books are well and carefully written; much thought has gone to their composition; to some even has been given the anxious labour of a lifetime.
-- She was brave, but not too obviously; cheerful, but not brazenly; and she seemed more anxious to listen to the troubles of others than to discuss her own.
-- He evidently looked upon a case as a case, and anxious relatives as a nuisance which must be treated with firmness.
-- When I explained that he was the husband, anxious to forgive, the doctor looked at him suddenly, with curious, searching eyes.
-- "It was hard and anxious work at first, and we worked strenuously, both of us.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the siege continued; and if the prisoners were anxious to escape and join Grant's army, certain of the besieged were no less anxious to join the Southern forces.
-- No one appeared to be anxious about their situation.
-- However, all were anxious to see, if not the fine season, at least the cessation of the insupportable cold.
-- They were anxious to reach Granite House to eat and sleep, and if the bridge had been constructed, in a quarter of an hour they would have been at home.
-- It was not only that they were extremely anxious to find out the cause of what had happened, whether it was the result of an accident which would be discovered at the return of day, or whether on the contrary it was the work of a human being; but they also had very uncomfortable beds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A part of this door was of glass unprotected by any shutter, which I did not observe at first, for all was very dark and silent within, and I was anxious (as indeed the child was also) for an answer to our summons.
-- He said this with such evident surprise that I was perplexed what answer to make, and the more so because coupled with something feeble and wandering in his manner, there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
-- These reflections naturally recalled again more strongly than before his haggard face, his wandering manner, his restless anxious looks.
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- But that reminds me I have left her all alone, and she will be anxious and know not a moment's peace till I return.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, therefore, anxious to end his day's sitting before six o'clock, that he might meet the red-haired Clara Vasilievna.
-- He was anxious to talk to the member of the court with the long beard, who shared his views, and before doing so wished to better familiarize himself with it.
-- When he was chaste, and wished to preserve his chastity till marriage, his relatives were anxious about his health, and his mother, so far from being mortified, rather rejoiced when she learned that he had become a real man, and had enticed the French mistress of some friend of his.
-- Although he was anxious to finish the case, he was so carried away that when he started to speak he could not stop himself.
-- The verdict was reached not because the majority of the jury agreed to it, but first because the justiciary had so drawn out his speech that he failed to properly instruct the jury; second, because the colonel's story about his brother-in-law's wife was tedious; third, because Nekhludoff was so excited that he did not notice the omission of the clause limiting the intent in the answer, and thought that the words "without intent to rob" negatively answered the question; fourth, because Peter Gerasimovich was not in the room when the foreman read the questions and answers, and chiefly because the jury were tired out and were anxious to get away, and therefore agreed to the verdict which it was easiest to reach.
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：
-- All doubts as to the intention of Webb now vanished, and an hour or two of hurried footsteps and anxious faces succeed-ed.
-- The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste; though his sober linea-ments and anxious eye sufficiently betrayed that he had no very strong professional relish for the, as yet, untried and dreaded warfare of the wilderness.
-- exclaimed the now really anxious girl.
-- When they rejoined the expecting and anxious females, he briefly acquainted them with the conditions of their new guide, and with the ne-cessity that existed for their hushing every apprehension in instant and serious exertions.
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