excessive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 过多的； 过分的； 额外，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：
-- The overstrained condition which had tormented her before did not only come back, but was intensified, and reached such a pitch that she was afraid every minute that something would snap within her from the excessive tension.
-- Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fogg persisted, offering the excessive sum of ten pounds an hour for the loan of the beast to Allahabad.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silva came, full of excessive benignity, chuckling to himself, "When he's got something the matter, he doesn't run for Arrhenius or Jacques Loeb, but for me!"
-- In excessive quantities it is almost as bad as coffee or even ice cream soda.
-- With excessive cordiality, with excessive applause when Clif remarked, "You better go back to work and put some salt on a coupla bacteria's tails," Martin guided him to the reception-room, safely past the girl clerk, and to the elevator.
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：
-- Pyotr Petrovitch went on, perhaps with excessive haste.
-- 'Excuse me, sir,' said Luzhin, affronted, and speaking with excessive dignity.
-- Razumihin, sitting opposite at the same table, listened warmly and im-patiently, looking from one to the other every moment with rather excessive interest.
-- Porfiry said amiably, holding out his hand with excessive politeness.
-- Porfiry Petro-vitch saw them to the door with excessive politeness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hishonest face, as he looked at me with a serio-comic shake of hishead, impresses me more in the remembrance than it did in thereality, for I was by this time in a state of such excessive trepidationand wandering of mind, as to be quite unable to fix my attentionon anything.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley's excessive curios-ity to know what this word might be, made him seize every possible moment for darting his eye towards it, and it was not long before he saw it to be Dixon.
-- I have been silent from sur-prize merely, excessive surprize.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not I. I couldn't tell any such ridiculous lie about a beauty to encourage a single woman in England in too excessive a modesty."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the room over that, a little flabby terrier of a clerk with dangling hair (his cropping seemed to have been forgotten when he was a puppy) was similarly engaged with a man with weak eyes, whom Mr. Wemmick presented to me as a smelter who kept his pot always boiling, and who would melt me anything I pleased,--and who was in an excessive white-perspiration, as if he had been trying his art on himself.
-- My thoughts were further distracted by the excessive pride of Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so distinguished a procession.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave me excessive pain, I a little loosened the strings that tied down my hair on the left side, so that I was just able to turn my head about two inches.
-- While I was thus employed, the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face, and, beside the excessive smart, gave me much disturbance in my work.
-- He assured me upon his honour 'that he was not poisoned, but died of a bad fever by excessive drinking.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stood whistling to himself with all imaginable coolness, with his hat still on, and a certain air of exhaustion upon him, in part arising from excessive summer, and in part from excessive gentility.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The repast, which was more Danish than Icelandic, was in itself nothing, but the excessive hospitality of our host made us enjoy it doubly.
-- We followed rapidly, despite our excessive fatigue.
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