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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Actually to discover that Mr. Knightley is a gentleman!I doubt whether he will return the compliment, and discover her to be a lady.
-- Emma listened with the warmest concern; grieved for her more and more, and looked around eager to discover some way of being useful.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
-- "Very well; if she doesn't return to-morrow, mind you go there and try to discover which man it is, and see him.
-- Bathsheba looked closely at the hot wax to discover the words.
-- Coggan and Oak nodded respectfully to the farmer, just checked their paces to discover if they were wanted, and finding they were not stood back to let him pass on.
-- "Why, there's a blackguard creditor in the tent I don't want to see, who'll discover me and nab me as sure as Satan if I open my mouth.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It might be possible to describe it if some one should discover a process by which to distil from the atmosphere all the nauseating elements with which it is charged by the 莽卢卢 3 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 catarrhal exhalations of every individual lodger, young or old.
-- He knew or guessed the concerns of every one about him; but none of them had been able to penetrate his thoughts, or to discover his occupation.
-- As soon as she saw that her blandishments were in vain, and 莽卢卢11 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 that her outlay on her toilette was money thrown away, she was not slow to discover the reason of his indifference.
-- It was Sylvie's custom to take the cream off the milk destined for the boarders' breakfast for her own, and to boil the remainder for some time, so that madame should not discover this illegal exaction.
-- The law student heard their laughter, and their voices, and the pauses in their talk; he grew malicious, exerted his conversational powers for M. de Restaud, flattered him, and drew him into discussions, to the end that he might see the Countess again and discover the nature of her relations with Father Goriot.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
-- Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
-- I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of cau-sation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me a light so brilliant and wondrous, 51yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immen-sity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their in-quiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
-- We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William!
-- My first thought was to discover what I knew of the murder-er, and cause instant pursuit to be made.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes wasunknown to him; and his vanity would have suffered tremendously if he had found it out, for he liked to think thatwhen he bawled orders at the top of his voice everyone trembled and obeyed.
-- Then she would make him happy again by letting him discover that popular though she was, shepreferred him above any other man in all the world.
-- There was no servant so stupid that she did not find some redeeming trait ofloyalty and kind-heartedness, no girl so ugly and disagreeable that she could not discover grace of form or nobility ofcharacter in her, and no man so worthless or so boring that she did not view him in the light of his possibilities ratherthan his actualities.
-- Her heart racing, she leaned from the window, her ear cocked to the far-off roaring, trying to discover from whichdirection it came.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Compeyson were alive and should discover his return, I could hardly doubt the consequence.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.
-- When the time came for the war to begin, the wil-low-wren sent out spies to discover who was the enemy's commander-in-chief.
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