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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the master did chance to rouse himself and seem alive to what was going on, the noise subsided for a moment and no eyes met his but wore a studious and a deeply humble look; but the instant he relapsed again, it broke out afresh, and ten times louder than before.
-- He was very patient and willing, happy to execute any little task, and glad to be of use; but he was in the same listless state, with no prospect of improvement a mere child a poor, thoughtless, vacant creature a harmless fond old man, susceptible of tender love and regard for her, and of pleasant and painful impressions, but alive to nothing more.
-- 'It has been alive as long as I have,' the man made answer.
-- He carried in his pocket, too, a fire-box of mysterious and unknown construction; and as sure as ever Kit's mother closed her eyes, so surely whisk, rattle, fizz there was the single gentleman consulting his watch by a flame of fire, and letting the sparks fall down among the straw as if there were no such thing as a possibility of himself and Kit's mother being roasted alive before the boys could stop their horses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: 'Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too!I never saw one alive before!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three years he were the man of this island, light and dark, fair and rain; and sometimes he would maybe think upon a prayer (says you), and sometimes he would maybe think of his old mother, so be as she's alive (you'll say); but the most part of Gunn's time (this is what you'll say) the most part of his time was took up with another matter.
-- Well now, I'm no scholar, and you're a lad as can read and figure, and to put it straight, do you take it as a dead man is dead for good, or do he come alive again?"
-- But I'll go as far with you as I dare go, and a step beyond, for I'll have my wig sorted by the captain or I'm mistaken!And first, I'll give you a bit of hope; Silver, if we both get alive out of this wolf-trap, I'll do my best to save you, short of perjury."
-- How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never had it been given to me to surprise these animals, alive and at liberty, in their natural element.
-- The thought then struck me that, if Ned Land had chosen this part of the sea for our flight, we should never have come alive out of this sea of fire.
-- Let circumstances only favour us, and by ten or eleven o'clock we shall have landed on some spot of terra firma, alive or dead.
-- Here, as lower down, this continent was alive with myriads of birds.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What does it matter if Diana Crich is alive or dead?"
-- The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly.
-- he called, his voice echoing alive through the house.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it be, he deserves flaying alive for not running to welcome me, and for screaming as if I were a goblin.
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