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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then he resumed his mental retrospect of the navigators who made known to us these two great islands of the Southern Sea.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentra-tion during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were es-sential and which immaterial.
-- Intense mental concentration has a curi-ous way of blotting out what has passed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doubt-less there may be men who have been sentenced, who have suffered this mental anguish for a while and then have been reprieved; perhaps such men may have been able to relate their feelings afterwards.
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：
-- In their minds and their mental excitements, that is.
-- Marriage might...and would...stultify my mental pro-cesses.
-- 'Look at me...I don't do any high and pure mental work, nothing but jot down a few ideas.
-- Hammond she didn't really like; he seemed so selfish in a mental way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those early days, the turnkey first began profoundly to consider a question which cost him so much mental labour, that it remained undetermined on the day of his death.
-- When they coughed, they coughed like people accustomed to be forgotten on doorsteps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink, which gave the recipients of those manuscripts great mental disturbance and no satisfaction.
-- It required some judgment to do it without butting the inner hall-door open, and in the consequent mental confusion and physical darkness slipping down the kitchen stairs.
-- exclaimed that public criminal, coming out of some mental combinations he had been making, and offering his hand.
-- Bar said, there was a certain point of mental strain beyond which no man could go; that the point varied with various textures of brain and peculiarities of constitution, as he had had occasion to notice in several of his learned brothers; but the point of endurance passed by a line's breadth, depression and dyspepsia ensued.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DECEMBER My Precious Betsey, As this is to be a scribble-scrabble letter, I direct it to you, for it may amuse you, and give you some idea of my goings on, for though quiet, they are rather amusing, for which, oh, be joyful!After what Amy would call Herculaneum efforts, in the way of mental and moral agriculture, my young ideas begin to shoot and my little twigs to bend as I could wish.
-- Now she seemed to have on the Professor's mental or moral spectacles also, for the faults of these poor stories glared at her dreadfully and filled her with dismay.
-- I'm going very fast, and he's getting dearer every minute,' added Jo to herself, then with a mental shake she entered into the business with an energy that was pleasant to behold.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Corney shook her head mournfully, as if deploring the mental blindness of those paupers who did not know it; and thrusting a silver spoon (private property) into the inmost recesses of a two-ounce tin tea-caddy, proceeded to make the tea.
-- 'The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks were often just and amusing; and as a companion for half an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education: she was ignorant and illiterate; and her deficiency of all mental improvement, her want of information in the most common particulars, could not be concealed from Miss Dashwood, in spite of her constant endeavour to appear to advantage.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a severe setback to her recently pleased mental state.
-- With ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her meagre four-fifty per week with a swift and graceful hand.
-- She was concentrating herself too thoroughly--what she did really required less mental and physical strain.
-- Yet, here is the fact of the lighted chamber, the dressy, greedy company, the small, self-interested palaver, the disorganized, aimless, wandering mental action which it represents--the love of light and show and finery which, to one outside, under the serene light of the eternal stars, must seem a strange and shiny thing.
-- He seemed to do all his mental operations without the aid of physical expression.
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