element是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 元素； 要素； 成分； 元件； 自然环境，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her memories of Vronsky there always entered a certain element of awkwardness, though he was in the highest degree well-bred and at ease, as though there were some false note--not in Vronsky, he was very simple and nice, but in herself, while with Levin she felt perfectly simple and clear.
-- And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture.
-- He was saying: "Danger in the races of officers, of cavalry men, is an essential element in the race.
-- But he saw clearly now (his work on a book of agriculture, in which the chief element in husbandry was to have been the laborer, greatly assisted him in this) that the sort of farming he was carrying on was nothing but a cruel and stubborn struggle between him and the laborers, in which there was on one side--his side--a continual intense effort to change everything to a pattern he considered better; on the other side, the natural order of things.
-- "There it is--the labor force--the chief element in agriculture," thought Levin.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went out, trembling all over from a sort of wild hysterical sensation, in which there was an element of in-sufferable rapture.
-- 'Well, I can't, that's all about it!There's an element of at-traction here, brother.'
-- There's the feather-bed element here, brother ach!
-- Solely by her exertions and sacrifices, a criminal charge, involving an element of fantastic and homicidal brutality for which he might well have been sentenced to Siberia, was hushed up.
-- Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar 'poor man's pride,' which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional social ceremony, sim-ply in order to do 'like other people,' and not to 'be looked down upon.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALKWe now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the many varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene.
-- Troy, in his prostration at this time, had no perception that in the futility of these romantic doings, dictated by a remorseful reaction from previous indifference, there was any element of absurdity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.
-- Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only did the romantic aura of the dashingblockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will.
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：
-- Creatures of another reality, they were ele-mentals, serving the elements of coal, as the metal-workers were elementals, serving the element of iron.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had always an affability to bestow on Clennam and an ease to treat him with, which might of itself (in the supposititious case of his not having taken that sagacious course) have been a very uncomfortable element in his state of mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy is splendid in fine works and I'm not, but I feel in my element when all the carpets are to be taken up, or half the family fall sick at once.
-- Jo was in her element that day, and rushed about, with her gown pinned up, and her hat anywhere but on her head, and her baby tucked under her arm, ready for any lively adventure which might turn up.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What is the chief element he employs?
-- Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
-- But it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized, and with such terrible experiences and remembrances as he had; it was not in nature that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its confinement, and burn all his courage up.
-- But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
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