bent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 爱好, 癖好，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him, having no serious misgivings now, and bent upon narrowly observing so curious a creature.
-- And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
-- By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned round his stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he had for a clout what do you think, I saw? why thunder alive, man, his stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out.
-- With bent head and half-slouched hat he continued to pace, unmindful of the wondering whispering among the men; till Stubb cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have summoned them there for the purpose of witnessing a pedestrian feat.
-- Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man!They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, nearly two hours later, I reached the bosom of mother earth, I was like a rheumatic old man bent double with pain.
-- Was he bent on a voyage of discovery?
-- All day my thoughts were bent upon these speculations, and my imagination scarcely regained a degree of calmness and power of reflection until after a sleep of many hours.
-- The Professor bent his eyes curiously over the wondrous instrument.
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：
-- Clifford and his cronies were not anti-social; they were more or less bent on saving mankind, or on instructing it, to say the least.
-- She bent her head to him shyly, and he changed his hat to his left hand and made her a slight bow, like a gentleman; but he said nothing at all.
-- The crumple of her waist at the back, as she bent back to look, was a little weary; and it used to be so gay-looking.
-- She saw it in his bent head, the quick quiet hands, the crouching of his slender, sensitive loins; something patient and withdrawn.
-- Then he bent down and suddenly kissed her unhappy face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Truly I think they will,' murmured John Baptist to himself, as he bent his head to put his knife in his sash.
-- A shuffling step was soon heard on the stone floor of the hall, and the door was opened by an old man, bent and dried, but with keen eyes.
-- Looking at him wrathfully, she bent herself back in her chair to keep him further off, but gave him no reply.
-- Still so recoiling in her chair that her overpoised weight moved it, from time to time, a little on its wheels, and gave her the appearance of a phantom of fierce aspect gliding away from him, she interposed her left arm, bent at the elbow with the back of her hand towards her face, between herself and him, and looked at him in a fixed silence.
-- A delicately bent head, a tiny form, a quick little pair of busy hands, and a shabby dress it must needs have been very shabby to look at all so, being so neat were Little Dorrit as she sat at work.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Meg, bent on making him say whether he thought her improved or not.
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
-- Bent on showing that he was not offended, he made him-self as agreeable as possible, wound cotton for Meg, recited poetry to please Jo, shook down cones for Beth, and helped Amy with her ferns, proving himself a fit person to belong to the 'Busy Bee Society'.
-- As she spoke, Jo bent over the leaves to hide the trem-bling of her lips, for lately she had felt that Margaret was fast getting to be a woman, and Laurie's secret made her dread the separation which must surely come some time and now seemed very near.
-- Laurie longed to say something tender and comfortable, but no fitting words came to him, so he stood silent, gen-tly stroking her bent head as her mother used to do.
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