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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The work to a man of my temperament was mechanical and uninteresting, but the privilege of living with youth, of helping to mould those young minds, and of impressing them with one's own character and ideals, was very dear to me.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nature appears to one, looking at this picture, as some huge, implacable, dumb monster; or still better a stranger simile some enormous mechanical engine of modern days which has seized and crushed and swallowed up a great and invaluable Being, a Being worth nature and all her laws, worth the whole earth, which was perhaps created merely for the sake of the advent of that Being.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would see one of the clumsy bovine-creatures who worked the launch treading heavily through the undergrowth, and find myself asking, trying hard to recall, how he differed from some really human yo-kel trudging home from his mechanical labours; or I would meet the Fox-bear woman's vulpine, shifty face, strangely human in its speculative cunning, and even imagine I had met it before in some city byway.
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：
-- In those days conversation was still cultivated as an art; a neat repartee was more highly valued than the crackling of thorns under a pot; and the epigram, not yet a mechanical appliance by which the dull may achieve a semblance of wit, gave sprightliness to the small talk of the urbane.
-- In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Upperworld people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away.
-- "So, as I see it, the Upperworld man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Underworld to mere mechanical industry.
-- But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection absolute permanency.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What mechanical agent caused its prodigious speed?
-- It lights, warms it, and is the soul of my mechanical apparatus.
-- No defects to be afraid of, for the double shell is as firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind to carry away; no boilers to burst; no fire to fear, for the vessel is made of iron, not of wood; no coal to run short, for electricity is the only mechanical agent; no collision to fear, for it alone swims in deep water; no tempest to brave, for when it dives below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity.
-- I supposed that the crew was occupied with interior repairs, rendered necessary by the violence of the mechanical movements of the machine.
-- It required many ages to find out the mechanical power of steam.
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：
-- But he held on her unrelaxed, with an almost mechanical relentlessness, keen as a sword pressing in to her.
-- His mind was gone, he grasped for sufficient mechanical control, to save himself.
-- "Put the lights out, we shall see better," came his voice, sudden and mechanical and belonging to the world of man.
-- Monday, the beginning of another school-week!Another shameful, barren school-week, mere routine and mechanical activity.
-- How sordid life was, how it was a terrible shame to the soul, to live now!How much cleaner and more dignified to be dead!One could not bear any more of this shame of sordid routine and mechanical nullity.
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