alive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 活着的； 存在的； 活跃的； (to) 敏感的，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《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I spoke, I looked keenly around, examining with care every point of the horizon; but nothing alive appeared to exist on these deserted shores.
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：
-- Crippled for ever, know-ing he could never have any children, Clifford came home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he could.
-- It would be wonder-ful to be intelligent: then one would be alive in all the parts mentioned and unmentionable.
-- The erect, alive thing, with its top in the sun!
-- The slim little chick was greyish brown with dark markings, and it was the most alive little spark of a creature in seven king-doms at that moment.
-- How alive everything was!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this yard a wash of sheets and table-cloths tried (in vain, for want of air) to get itself dried on a line or two; and among those flapping articles was sitting in a chair, like the last mariner left alive on the deck of a damp ship without the power of furling the sails, a little woe-begone young man.
-- Then he said aloud, 'Well, my dear Frederick, if you will only try, as we walk out, to show that you are alive to the occasion that you think about it ''What would you advise me to think about it?'
-- The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thickenThe shady waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office, where he passed a good deal of time in company with various troublesome Convicts who were under sentence to be broken alive on that wheel, had afforded Arthur Clennam ample leisure, in three or four successive days, to exhaust the subject of his late glimpse of Miss Wade and Tattycoram.
-- Nobody knew that the Merdle of such high renown had ever done any good to any one, alive or dead, or to any earthly thing; nobody knew that he had any capacity or utterance of any sort in him, which had ever thrown, for any creature, the feeblest farthing-candle ray of light on any path of duty or diversion, pain or pleasure, toil or rest, fact or fancy, among the multiplicity of paths in the labyrinth trodden by the sons of Adam; nobody had the smallest reason for supposing the clay of which this object of worship was made, to be other than the commonest clay, with as clogged a wick smouldering inside of it as ever kept an image of humanity from tumbling to pieces.
-- After his trinkets, or such of them as he had been able to see about him, were gone, his clothes engaged his attention; and it is as likely as not that he was kept alive for some days by the satisfaction of sending them, piece by piece, to an imaginary pawnbroker's.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now,' said Jo, always ready with a plan.
-- Mr. Bhaer's face had lost the absent-minded expression, and looked all alive with inter-est in the present moment, actually young and handsome, she thought, forgetting to compare him with Laurie, as she usually did strange men, to their great detriment.
-- How they ever grew up alive in that whirlpool of boys was a mystery to their grandma and aunts, but they flourished like dandelions in spring, and their rough nurses loved and served them well.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to the comical predicament.
-- I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
-- "Mrs. Hussey," said I, "he's alive at all events; so leave us, if you please, and I will see to this strange affair myself."
-- "He's a lively chief mate, that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to."
-- And often you will notice that being conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Lord, Lord!Well, it is strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she lying there: so cold and stiff!Lord, Lord!--to think of it; it's as good as a play--as good as a play!'
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
-- You won't see him alive again, Fagin.
-- Alive or dead, that's all I know about him.'
-- 'Your late unfortunate husband should have taught it you; and then, perhaps, he might have been alive now.
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