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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked about him again, listened, bent towards the mariner, and lowered his voice: "The fact of it is I happen to know just a thing or two about this Invisible Man.
-- I remember the funeral, the cheap hearse, the scant ceremony, the windy frost-bitten hillside, and the old college friend of his who read the service over him a shabby, black, bent old man with a snivelling cold.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember our voic-es were dry and thin, so that we bent towards one another and spared our words.
-- I bent down to his face, put my hand through the rent in his blouse.
-- One bent his knees.
-- His head was bent down, his bright eyes were fixed upon me, his stumpy hands clenched and held close by his side.
-- I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer drip-ping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibing chil-dren.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them.
-- That was made already, six feet wide, in front of him, where the bent jungle-grass was trying to recover itself and stand up.
-- See our line across the plain, Like a heel-rope bent again, Reaching, writhing, rolling far, Sweeping all away to war!
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：
-- He paused and turned his head quickly toward a thicket, and then bent his eyes suspiciously on their guide, who continued his steady pace, in undisturbed gravity.
-- In vain were the eyes of each individual bent along the oppo-site shores, in quest of some signs of life, that might explain the nature of the interruption they had heard.
-- 'The Hurons, if they come, may not gain our position so easily as they think,' he slowly muttered; and propping his head back against the rock, he seemed to await the result in patience, though his gaze was unceasingly bent on the open avenue to their place of retreat.
-- Alice unconsciously dried her tears, and bent her melting eyes on the pallid features of Gamut, with an expression of chastened delight that she neither affected or wished to conceal.
-- 'Does he ever miss his aim, when seriously bent to kill?'
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：
-- His father was a spare old man, his hands gnarled after the work of a lifetime, silent and upright; in the evening he read the paper aloud, while his wife and daughter (now married to the captain of a fishing smack), unwilling to lose a moment, bent over their sewing.
-- But one day, when I was walking along, bent on some errand, I passed Charles Strickland.
-- Dr. Coutras made an effort of will and bent over that battered horror.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the bank was not without some obstacles: here, the flexible branches of the trees bent level with the current; there, creepers and thorns which they had to break down with their sticks.
-- Thick, strong thorns, the points bent back (which were supplied from a dwarf acacia bush) were fastened to the ends of the creepers, by way of hooks.
-- Though bent under the gale they walked very quickly, following Top, who did not hesitate as to what direction to take.
-- All stopped about fifty feet from half-a-dozen animals of a large size, with strong horns bent back and flattened towards the point, with a woolly fleece, hidden under long silky hair of a tawny color.
-- "Now," said the reporter, "to this peninsula at the southwest of the island, I propose to give the name of Serpentine Peninsula, and that of Reptile-end to the bent tail which terminates it, for it is just like a reptile's tail."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 2After combating, for nearly a week, the feeling which impelled me to revisit the place I had quitted under the circumstances already detailed, I yielded to it at length; and determining that this time I would present myself by the light of day, bent my steps thither early in the morning.
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