delusion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 错觉，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He abandoned that attempt on the first day, and resolved merely to keep himself always before him, as a si-lent protest against the delusion into which he had fallen, or was falling.
-- Charles Darnay, alone in a cell, had sustained himself with no flattering delusion since he came to it from the Tri-bunal.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for Alexey Alexandrovitch it was a necessity to think in that way; it was such a necessity for him in his humiliation to have some elevated standpoint, however imaginary, from which, looked down upon by all, he could look down on others, that he clung, as to his one salvation, to his delusion of salvation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He rather enjoyed the voyage, for he was well fed and well lodged, took a great interest in the scenes through which they were passing, and consoled himself with the delusion that his master's whim would end at Bombay.
-- It was an innocent delusion which could harm no one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A mostunaccountable delusion it is!'
-- I had not the least belief, in the outset of this story, that theunknown was anything but a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and one ofthe line of that ill-fated Prince who occasioned him so muchdifficulty; but after some reflection I began to entertain thequestion whether an attempt, or threat of an attempt, might havebeen twice made to take poor Mr. Dick himself from under myaunt's protection, and whether my aunt, the strength of whose kindfeeling towards him I knew from herself, might have been inducedto pay a price for his peace and quiet.
-- I stopped short, among the thick foliage outside, for themoon was up now, though obscured; and I recognised the manwhom I had once supposed to be a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and hadonce encountered with my aunt in the streets of the City.
-- Neverpausing for an answer to anything he said, Traddles, who hadclapped me into an easy-chair by the fire, all this time impetuouslystirred the fire with one hand, and pulled at my neckerchief withthe other, under some wild delusion that it was a great-coat.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able and yet without losing a word to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as any of her own that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been say-ing relative to Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself. And not only was there time for these convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's se-cret had not escaped her, and to resolve that it need not, and should not. It was all the service she could now render her poor friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two or even the more simple sublimity of resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouch-safing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And perhaps it's no harm, for you are certainly under no delusion that I ever loved you, or that I can have any object in speaking, more than that object I have mentioned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge,--a clear Impossibility,--but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding.
-- I know them to have been as honestly under my delusion as I myself.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My first glance was upwards at the cold fleecy clouds, which as by some optical delusion appeared to stand still, while the steeple, the weathercock, and our two selves were carried swiftly along.
-- Its magnificent snowy nightcap, as we began to call it, by an optical delusion very common in mountains, appeared to me to be close at hand; and yet how many long weary hours must elapse before we reached its summit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If Gilbert Clennam, reduced to imbecility, at the point of death, and labouring under the delusion of some imaginary relenting towards a girl of whom he had heard that his nephew had once had a fancy for her which he had crushed out of him, and that she afterwards drooped away into melancholy and withdrawal from all who knew her if, in that state of weakness, he dictated to me, whose life she had darkened with her sin, and who had been appointed to know her wickedness from her own hand and her own lips, a bequest meant as a recompense to her for supposed unmerited suffering; was there no difference between my spurning that injustice, and coveting mere money a thing which you, and your comrades in the prisons, may steal from anyone?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Brooke', and evidently laboring under the delusion that the whole affair had been brought about by his excellent management.
-- he whis-pered, 'or am I merely laboring under a delusion that I saw some lying about loose this morning?'
-- When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite composed, his grandfather met him as if he knew nothing, and kept up the delusion very successfully for an hour or two.
-- And Meg led her son away, feeling a strong desire to spank the little marplot who hopped beside her, laboring under the delusion that the bribe was to be administered as soon as they reached the nursery.
-- The excellent papa la-bored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
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