mental是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 精神的， 思想的， 心理的， 智力的， 脑力的，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
-- 'My dear, dear anxious friend,' said she, in mental so-liloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, 'always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way.
-- Oak went up to the door a little abashed: his mental rehearsal and the reality had had no common grounds of opening.
-- "Hundred and seventeen," chuckled another old gentleman, given to mental arithmetic and little conversation, who had hitherto sat unobserved in a corner.
-- "And you mean, ma'am, excusing my words, that a young woman would hardly go to see her young man without dressing up," said Jacob, turning his mental vision upon past experiences.
-- said Liddy, with the fixed features of mental realization.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor old man's mental and physical condition afforded some grounds for the absurd rubbish talked about him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous ge-nius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans of their subsequent degenerating of the decline of that mighty empire, of chiv-alry, Christianity, and kings.
-- I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Dear Wife, if I have concealed aught from you it is because I did not wish to lay a burden on your shoulders, toadd to your worries for my physical safety with those of my mental turmoil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at them and distributed three defaced Bibles (shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump end of something), more illegibly printed at the best than any curiosities of literature I have since met with, speckled all over with ironmould, and having various specimens of the insect world smashed between their leaves.
-- He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.
-- It would have done so, pretty surely, in conjunction with the mental wear and tear I had suffered, but for the unnatural strain upon me that to-morrow was.
-- He would sit and talk to me in the old confidence, and with the old simplicity, and in the old unassertive protecting way, so that I would half believe that all my life since the days of the old kitchen was one of the mental troubles of the fever that was gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gradgrind, a little, thin, white, pink-eyed bundle of shawls, of surpassing feebleness, mental and bodily; who was always taking physic without any effect, and who, whenever she showed a symptom of coming to life, was invariably stunned by some weighty piece of fact tumbling on her; Mrs. Gradgrind hoped it was a dry ditch?
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- 'My dear Bounderby,' said James, dismounting, and giving his bridle to his servant, 'I do see it; and am as overcome as you can possibly desire me to be, by the spectacle afforded to my mental view.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This mental lecture delivered to myself while proceeding on a journey, did me good.
-- My uncle moved with it in a state of mental ecstasy.
-- While I was making this mental calculation a voice broke the silence.
-- Having come to this mental decision, I made up my mind, before I started upwards, that ablution would certainly do me a great deal of good.
-- After some time, I explained my state of mental indecision to my uncle.
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：
-- They loved their respective young men, and their respective young men loved them with all the passion of mental at-traction.
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