discover是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 发现, 显示,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:
-- Such homes had these various notabilities left behind them in the fine world of Paris, that the spies among the assembled devotees of Monseigneur forming a goodly half of the polite compa-ny would have found it hard to discover among the angels of that sphere one solitary wife, who, in her manners and appearance, owned to being a Mother.
-- 304 A tale of two cities Who gave them out, whence they last came, where they began, through what agency they crookedly quivered and jerked, scores at a time, over the heads of the crowd, like a kind of lightning, no eye in the throng could have told; but, muskets were being distributed so were cartridges, powder, and ball, bars of iron and wood, knives, axes, pikes, every weapon that distracted ingenuity could discover or devise.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I cannot discover the least bit of thread on the looms.'
-- The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, viz: there was nothing there.
-- All his reti-nue now strained their eyes, hoping to discover something on the looms, but they could see no more than the others; nevertheless, they all exclaimed, 'Oh, how beautiful!'
-- He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted that word was 'eternity"; and the Snow Queen had said, 'If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates.'
-- The king of the country was also obser-vant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of 'Universal Bell-ringer,' even if it were not really a bell.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man who, wile calmly crossing a precipice by a bridge, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below.
-- Levin saw that he was not to discover the connection between this man's life and his thoughts.
-- "One needs to know and love her as I have loved her to discover the very sweetest expression of her soul," Vronsky thought, though it was only from this portrait that he had himself learned this sweetest expression of her soul.
-- Seryozha jumped up and went up to his father, and kissing his hand, looked at him intently, trying to discover signs of his joy at receiving the Alexander Nevsky.
-- Levin, looking at the tiny, pitiful creature, made strenuous efforts to discover in his heart some traces of fatherly feeling for it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was going to specialize in bacteriology; he was going to discover enchanting new germs; Professor Gottlieb was going to recognize him as a genius, make him an assistant, predict for him--He halted in Gottlieb's private laboratory, a small, tidy apartment with racks of cotton- corked test-tubes on the bench, a place unimpressive and unmagical save for the constant- temperature bath with its tricky thermometer and electric bulbs.
-- I'll show old Gottlieb, damn him!Some day I'll discover the germ of cancer or something, and then he'll look foolish in the face!.
-- They saw Fatty stop, remove his handkerchief, mournfully blow his nose--and discover a long thin slip of paper.
-- From him a future physician could learn that most important of all things: the proper drugs to give a patient, particularly when you cannot discover what is the matter with him.
-- Next to Angus, and the future medical missionary, Ira Hinkley, Fatty Pfaff was the first to discover what his future was.
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:
-- They were a long while trying to discover why the accused man should tell a lie about this, when about everything else he had made a truthful and straightforward confession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How would it affect them, who were soinnocent of London life and London streets, to discover howknowing I was (and was ashamed to be) in some of the meanestphases of both'?
-- 'If she should come here,' said I, 'I believe there is oneperson, here, more likely to discover her than any other in theworld.
-- My object, when thecontest within myself between stipend and no stipend, baker andno baker, existence and nonexistence, ceased, was to takeadvantage of my opportunities to discover and expose the majormalpractices committed, to that gentleman's grievous wrong andinjury, by- HEEP.
-- 'Among the persons who are attracted to me in my rising fame andfortune,' said I, looking over my letters, 'and who discover thatthey were always much attached to me, is the self-same Creakle.
-- I could not discover whether my aunt, in her last shortconversation with me, had fallen on a pious fraud, or had reallymistaken the state of my mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Knightley! never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley! and discover that he is a gentleman!A little upstart, vulgar be-ing, with her Mr. E., and her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.
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