execution是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 实行， 执行； 处死刑，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：
-- Never would he take it upon himself to alter or retard the execution of an order.
-- His first mate would not delay the execution of an order for ten days.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes I saw an execution in France at Lyons.
-- One might show you the execution of a felon, or show you one's little finger.
-- No, the thing is, I was telling all about the execution a little while ago, and ' 'Whom did you tell about it?'
-- He had lived in the prison for some time and had not expect-ed that the execution would take place for at least a week yet he had counted on all the formalities and so on taking time; but it so happened that his papers had been got ready quickly.
-- 'The execution is fixed for ten o'clock.'
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：
-- He saw, at once, that this wily savage had some secret agency in their present arraignment before the nation, and determined to throw every possible impedi-ment in the way of the execution of his sinister plans.
-- Magua cast a look of triumph around the whole assembly before he proceeded to the execution of his purpose.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft and the engineer talked of the different projects which it was agreed to put into execution with the briefest possible delay.
-- Then, before retiring to rest, Harding and his companions seated round their table, discussed those plans, the execution of which was most pressing.
-- The level of the lake would, no doubt, be somewhat lowered by this fresh discharge of its waters, but Cyrus Harding had ascertained that the volume of water in the Red Creek was considerable enough to allow of the execution of this project.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had been remarkable, when a tender prattler for an uncommon talent in counterfeiting the walk and manner of a bailiff: in which character she had learned to tap her little playfellows on the shoulder, and to carry them off to imaginary sponging-houses, with a correctness of imitation which was the surprise and delight of all who witnessed her performances, and which was only to be exceeded by her exquisite manner of putting an execution into her doll's house, and taking an exact inventory of the chairs and tables.
-- I find myself suddenly checked and stopped short, in the execution of my design, by a mystery which I cannot penetrate.
-- Mr Swiveller, passing through the street in the execution of some Brazen errand, and beholding one of his Glorious Brotherhood intently gazing on a pony, crossed over to give him that fraternal greeting with which Perpetual Grands are, by the very constitution of their office, bound to cheer and encourage their disciples.
-- The remainder of their conversation was carried on in a lower tone of voice, and was sufficiently concise; relating merely to the execution of the project, and the best precautions for diverting suspicion.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He always strictly carried out the orders of his superiors, and considered their execution of great importance and significance, so much so that while everything in the world could be changed, these orders, according to him, were above the possibility of any alteration.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Plornish's father, a poor little reedy piping old gentleman, like a worn-out bird; who had been in what he called the music-binding business, and met with great misfortunes, and who had seldom been able to make his way, or to see it or to pay it, or to do anything at all with it but find it no thoroughfare, had retired of his own accord to the Workhouse which was appointed by law to be the Good Samaritan of his district (without the twopence, which was bad political economy), on the settlement of that execution which had carried Mr Plornish to the Marshalsea College.
-- The execution of this trust occupied Mrs General about seven years, in the course of which time she made the tour of Europe, and saw most of that extensive miscellany of objects which it is essential that all persons of polite cultivation should see with other people's eyes, and never with their own.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie spoke excitedly, and looked ready to carry his threat into execution on the slightest provocation, for he was growing up very fast and, in spite of his indolent ways, had a young man's hatred of subjection, a young man's rest-less longing to try the world for himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dodger said nothing, but he smoothed Oliver's hair over his eyes, and said he'd know better, by and by; upon which the old gentleman, observing Oliver's colour mounting, changed the subject by asking whether there had been much of a crowd at the execution that morning?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Catherine continued her remarks on Elizabeth's performance, mixing with them many instructions on execution and taste.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As long as I kept my daily tour to the hill, to look out, so long also I kept up the vigour of my design, and my spirits seemed to be all the while in a suitable frame for so out-rageous an execution as the killing twenty or thirty naked savages, for an offence which I had not at all entered into any discussion of in my thoughts, any farther than my pas-sions were at first fired by the horror I conceived at theunnatural custom of the people of that country, who, it seems, had been suffered by Providence, in His wise dis-position of the world, to have no other guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated passions; and conse-quently were left, and perhaps had been so for some ages, to act such horrid things, and receive such dreadful customs, as nothing but nature, entirely abandoned by Heaven, and actuated by some hellish degeneracy, could have run them into.
-- Upon the cap-tain coming to me, I told him my project for seizing the ship, which he liked wonderfully well, and resolved to put it in execution the next morning.
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