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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But again a loathing for all mental exertion overmastered him; he would not think it out now, he would put it off and think of something else.
-- For the rest, he thought the dialectical part of his argument of little worth; he saw only too clearly that the result of these ecstat-ic moments was stupefaction, mental darkness, idiocy.
-- This country villa pleased the prince very much in his state of physical and mental exhaustion.
-- The old man was in a state of great mental perturbation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His case was discussed among psychologists at the time as a curious instance of the lapse of memory consequent upon physi-cal and mental stress.
-- The mental structure is even less determinate than the bodily.
-- He explained to me that the comparative safety of Moreau and himself was due to the limited mental scope of these monsters.
-- A blind Fate, a vast pitiless Mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People with their in-stincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its in-cessant wheels.
-- But I have confided my case to a strangely able man, a man who had known Moreau, and seemed half to credit my story; a mental specialist, and he has helped me mightily, though I do not expect that the terror of that island will ever altogether leave me.
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：
-- Alice revived under the renovating influence of the open air, and, as her physical rather than her mental powers had been the subject of weakness, she stood in no need of any explanation of that which had occurred.
-- Among his actual auditors, however, it mere-ly gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.
-- 'The words of the Delaware are said,' returned the sage, closing his eyes, and dropping back into his seat, alike wea-ried with his mental and his bodily exertion.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nonsense," I answered promptly; "I don't disapprove of the boa-constrictor; on the contrary, I'm interested in his mental processes."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides mental power, he also possessed great manual dexterity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller appeared to think that they implied some mental struggle consequent upon the powerful effect of his address, for he poked his friend with his cane and whispered his conviction that he had administered 'a clincher,' and that he expected a commission on the profits.
-- At this repast, Mr Chuckster exerted his utmost abilities to enchant his entertainers, and impress them with a conviction of the mental superiority of those who dwelt in town; with which view he led the discourse to the small scandal of the day, in which he was justly considered by his friends to shine prodigiously.
-- Kit, however, fortunately for himself, was not learned enough or contemplative enough to be troubled with presages of evil afar off, and, having no mental spectacles to assist his vision in this respect, saw nothing but the dull house, which jarred uncomfortably upon his previous thoughts.
-- I will not tell you what misery he underwent, what agony of soul he knew, how great his mental struggle was.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lawyer did not listen to her, but looked at the flowers on her hat, making mental calculations.
-- "It is impossible," Nekhludoff continued to repeat, although there was no doubt in his mind now that it was she, that same servant ward with whom he had been in love at one time--yes, in love, real love, and whom in a moment of mental fever he led astray, then abandoned, and to whom he never gave a second thought, because the recollection of it was too painful, revealed too manifestly that he, who prided himself of his good breeding, not only did not treat her decently, but basely deceived her.
-- "You are an awful crank, but I love you for the very reason that you are such an awful crank," she repeated, the word evidently well describing, according to her view, the mental and moral condition of her nephew.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
-- It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal.
-- For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
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