quicken是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 加快 vi. 加快，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the storm-clouds, turning white and then black, moved down so quickly that they had to quicken their pace to get home before the rain.
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：
-- 'Come, friend,' said Hawkeye, drawing out a keg from be-neath a cover of leaves, toward the close of the repast, and addressing the stranger who sat at his elbow, doing great justice to his culinary skill, 'try a little spruce; 'twill wash away all thoughts of the colt, and quicken the life in your bosom.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And meanwhile he dared not quicken his pace much, though the next turning was still nearly a hundred yards away.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no longer in Emma's power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some persons may have noticed how extraordinarily the striking of quarters seems to quicken the flight of time.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it was this duality in feeling which he created in her, that made a fine hate of him quicken in her bowels.
-- She began to quicken her pace, in a moment she would be gone like a dream, when the young grey lord sprang before her, and gave her a light handsome cuff.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I certainly knew nothing of Danish, but I thoroughly understood that his gestures were meant to quicken us.
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：
-- It needs sheer sensuality even to purify and quicken the mind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen.
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