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:
-- 'But they may discover him, and it will prove his death.
-- It was impos-sible to discover the expression of his features through the grotesque mask of paint under which they were concealed, though Duncan fancied it was rather melancholy than sav-age.
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:
-- He was quick to discover talent, and his praise was generous.
-- There was in my soul a perfectly genuine horror of Strickland, and side by side with it a cold curiosity to discover his motives.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Very well," returned Herbert, "I will look for a cave among the rocks, and I shall be sure to discover some hole into which we can creep."
-- He could not find it; he rummaged the pockets of his trousers, but, to his horror, he could nowhere discover the box.
-- Top's instinct was useful to the hunters, who, thanks to the intelligent animal, were enabled to discover the road by which they had come.
-- Towards the west, a cloudy belt, clearly visible at the horizon, increased the gloom, and the eye could not discover if the sky and water were blended together in the same circular line.
-- It is true, a distance of nearly thirty miles separated the observers from the extreme points, that is, of the tail which extended to the southwest, and it would have been difficult, even to Pencroft's eyes, to discover a habitation there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just then somebody happened to discover that Nell was crying, and all eyes were again turned towards her.
-- said the single gentleman, pacing up and down the room, 'have I found these men at last, only to discover that they can give me no information or assistance!It would have been better to have lived on, in hope, from day to day, and never to have lighted on them, than to have my expectations scattered thus.'
-- The fact is, that I myself have missed several small sums from the desk, of late, and have refrained from mentioning it, hoping that accident would discover the offender; but it has not done so it has not done so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "To discover a society," said I, "erected on a strictly communistic basis."
-- I had a persuasion that if I could enter those doors and carry a blaze of light before me I should discover the Time Machine and escape.
-- I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Did you discover this passage by chance?"
-- Chance led me to discover it, and chance served me well."
-- Often seeing no exit, I thought we were definitely prisoners; but, instinct guiding him at the slightest indication, Captain Nemo would discover a new pass.
-- "No, sir," he replied; "but we will discover it together.
-- No flag fluttered from its mast, and I could not discover its nationality.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One Sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sitting room, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind; and when I went to call them to supper, I could discover them nowhere.
-- Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse he arrested his descent, and setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the accident.
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