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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In obedience to Lord Glenarvan's order, John Mangles had sailed as near the archipelago of Chiloe as possible, and examined all the creeks and windings of the coast, hoping to discover some traces of the shipwreck.
-- He had been fortunate enough to discover on the banks of the rio a ramada, a sort of enclosure, which had served as a fold for flocks, and was shut in on three sides.
-- Paganel, excited by the difficulty, was turning over and over the words of the document, and trying to discover some new meaning.
-- But it was getting quite dark already, and their eager gaze could discover no traces of the DUNCAN on the gloomy expanse of water that met their sight.
-- John Mangles happened to discover a natural breach about half a mile south.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have ample evidence that you are being dogged in London, and amid the millions of this great city it is dif-ficult to discover who these people are or what their object can be.
-- It was he who had been the first to discover the body of Sir Charles, and we had only his word for all the circum-stances which led up to the old man's death.
-- There was no trace, how-ever, of anything of the kind, nor could I discover any sign which might indicate the character or intentions of the man who lived in this singular place, save that he must be of Spar-tan habits and cared little for the comforts of life.
-- I shrank back into the darkest corner, and cocked the pistol in my pocket, deter-mined not to discover myself until I had an opportunity of seeing something of the stranger.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh dear no, oh no!As for a situation, I should much like to find one for I am anxious to discover what I really am fit for.
-- He came up to it quite curious to discover whether he had guessed right, and felt that he would be dis-agreeably impressed to find that he had actually done so.
-- He was ex-tremely anxious now to discover whether this shop and these goods really existed, or whether the whole thing had been a hallucination.
-- It was really almost impossible for Burdovsky or Tchebaroff to discover these facts, even if it had entered their heads to try.
-- He had arrived in a quar-relsome mood, pitching into everyone he came across, and talking about all sorts and kinds of subjects in the most un-expected manner, so that it was impossible to discover what it was that was really putting him out.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any ser-vice to him or no.
-- I would remind you of this that you may learn to leave off being so deceitful, and discover how much you are likely to gain by the embraces out of which you have come here to trick me.'
-- When Achilles had done spoiling Hector of his armour, he stood among the Argives and said, 'My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, now that heaven has vouch-safed us to overcome this man, who has done us more hurt than all the others together, consider whether we should not attack the city in force, and discover in what mind the Tro-jans may be.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henfrey stopped to discover this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was too ignorant of botany to discover any resort of root or fruit that might lie about me; I had no means of trapping the few rabbits upon the island.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he found that no one sympathized with him in his little attempt to discover a quiet place for the seals.
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：
-- Unable to discover any new victim, these diligent workers of vengeance soon ap- proached their male prisoners, pronouncing the name 'La Longue Carabine,' with a fierceness that could not be easily mistaken.
-- Without waiting for an assent, or, indeed, for any re-ply, the sturdy hunter moved boldly into a dense thicket of young chestnuts, shoving aside the branches of the ex-uberant shoots which nearly covered the ground, like a man who expected, at each step, to discover some object he had formerly known.
-- Notwithstanding the revolting horror of the exhibi- tion, Munro and Heyward flew toward the festering heap, endeavoring, with a love that no unseemliness could extin- guish, to discover whether any vestiges of those they sought were to be seen among the tattered and many-colored gar- ments.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day was before him--a long day in which to discover something--and this was how he must begin to discover.
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