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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was another serious element in their grief.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently some subconscious element was at work.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lightning is not quicker than was the flame from the rifle of Hawkeye; the limbs of the victim trembled and contracted, the head fell to the bosom, and the body parted the foam-ing waters like lead, when the element closed above it, in its ceaseless velocity, and every vestige of the unhappy Huron was lost forever.
-- The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consum-ing lightning.
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：
-- I suspected that Blanche Stroeve's violent dislike of Strickland had in it from the beginning a vague element of sexual attraction.
-- His appearance was wild and uncouth; there was aloofness in his eyes and sensuality in his mouth; he was big and strong; he gave the impression of untamed passion; and perhaps she felt in him, too, that sinister element which had made me think of those wild beings of the world's early history when matter, retaining its early connection with the earth, seemed to possess yet a spirit of its own.
-- I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation; there is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they advanced the forest element diminished.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'May the present moment,' said Dick, sticking his fork into a large carbuncular potato, 'be the worst of our lives!I like the plan of sending 'em with the peel on; there's a charm in drawing a potato from its native element (if I may so express it) to which the rich and powerful are strangers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people, and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks a something inhuman and malign.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular lines, due to the density of the element which had produced them.
-- But, indeed, in the thick diving-dress, the liquid element is no longer felt, and one only seems to be in an atmosphere somewhat denser than the terrestrial atmosphere.
-- It is a faithful narrative of this incredible expedition in an element inaccessible to man, but to which Progress will one day open a road.
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：
-- "I think Gerald is right race is the essential element in nationality, in Europe at least," he said.
-- From his separate element he saw them and he exulted to himself because of his own advantage, his possession of a world to himself.
-- "I feel," Gerald continued, "that there is always an element of uncertainty about you perhaps you are uncertain about yourself.
-- And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindless, remote, living shadow-gleam.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its principal element was daring, backed, of course, by an intense desire and admiration for the sex.
-- Remove the element so thoroughly and solely complained of--liquor--and there would not be one to gainsay the qualities of beauty and enthusiasm which would remain.
-- It roused his ire also-- the deepest element of revolt in him.
-- Vance was in his element here, as Hurstwood would have been in former days.
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