And here the will comes into use; for it is by your will that you determine upon what things your attention shall be fixed.

这时，我们就需要借助意志力的帮助了，因为，注意力的焦点，即我们观察到的和想到的全部事物，都是由我们的意志力来决定的。

Provis, regarding him with a fixed attention, was slowly putting up his jackknife, and groping in another pocket for something else.

普罗维斯注视着他，慢慢地举起他的折刀，并在另一个口袋里摸索着别的东西。

Catherine, recollecting herself, grew ashamed of her eagerness, and began earnestly to assure him that her attention had been fixed without the smallest apprehension of really meeting with what he related.

凯瑟琳回过神来，为自己的急切感到羞愧，开始诚恳地向他保证，她的注意力已经集中在他身上，丝毫没有担心会真正遇到他所说的事情。

After her brother had delivered himself, on his return from Europe, of that incisive little address that has been quoted, Morris's cause seemed so hopeless that Mrs. Penniman fixed her attention exclusively upon the latter branch of her argument.

在她哥哥从欧洲回来后，发表了被引用的那篇尖锐的小演讲后，莫里斯的事业似乎毫无希望，以至于彭尼曼夫人将注意力完全集中在她论点的后一个分支上。

I listened, I need not say, with fixed attention, and put many questions as to the more mysterious part. It was in vain. She had no clear idea of what the blow was, nor of how it was expected to fall.

不用说，我全神贯注地听着，就更神秘的部分提出了很多问题。这是徒劳的。她不清楚打击是什么，也不知道打击会如何落下。