mechanical是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 机械的， 由机构制成的； 机械似的， 呆板的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.
-- They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eat-ing and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched.
-- Scarcely noticing as yet, in what a curiously reserved and mechanical way Defarge spoke, Mr. Lorry put on his hat and they went down into the courtyard.
-- 'Though it's not important,' repeated Carton, in the same mechanical way 'though it's not important No, it's not important.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew that by this term was understood a mechanical facility for painting or drawing, entirely apart from its subject.
-- And the most experienced and adroit painter could not by mere mechanical facility paint anything if the lines of the subject were not revealed to him first.
-- Sviazhsky, as a connoisseur in the latest mechanical improvements, appreciated everything fully.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Holabird's tweeds made Clay Tredgold's smartness seem hard and pretentious, so his dinner revealed Angus Duer's affairs in Chicago as mechanical and joyless and a little anxious.
-- It is uncertain whether the real hurt was to his love for America or to his egotism, that he should have guessed so grotesquely; it is curious that he who had so denounced the machine-made education of the land should yet have been surprised when it turned blithely to the old, old, mechanical mockeries of war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Traddles now informed me, as the result of his inquiries, that themere mechanical acquisition necessary, except in rare cases, forthorough excellence in it, that is to say, a perfect and entirecommand of the mystery of short-hand writing and reading, wasabout equal in difficulty to the mastery of six languages; and that it 488might perhaps be attained, by dint of perseverance, in the course ofa few years.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Troy began to laugh a mechanical laugh: Boldwood recognized him now.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What ago-nizing fondness did I feel for them!How did I cling to their dear forms, as sometimes they haunted even my waking hours, and persuade myself that they still lived!At such mo-ments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the dae-mon more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone.
-- His mouth was such a post-office of a mouth that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling.
-- We had got to the top of Holborn Hill before I knew that it was merely a mechanical appearance, and that he was not smiling at all.
-- On Wemmick's return from working these mechanical appliances, I expressed the great admiration with which I regarded them, and he said, "Well, you know, they're both pleasant and useful to the Aged.
-- Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practise on when no other practice was at hand; those were the first smarts I had.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of these hairs (as I had always a mechanical genius) I likewise made a neat little purse, about five feet long, with her majesty's name de-ciphered in gold letters, which I gave to Glumdalclitch, by the queen's consent.
-- But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture, and all mechanical arts; so that among us, it would be little esteemed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.
-- Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
-- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length a time came when despite the enormous thickness and weight of the upper crust, the mechanical forces of the combustible gases below became so great, that they actually upheaved the weighty back and made for themselves huge and gigantic shafts.
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