observation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 观察， 观测， 监视； (pl. ) 观察资料； 观察力，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：
-- Mr. Cruncher made the observation to his next neighbour, and added, 'I'd hold half a guinea that HE don't get no law-work to do.
-- Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, with-out any apparent reason.
-- If you please, committing you in no way, representing you in no way, I will undertake to correct my advice by the exercise of a little new observation and judgment expressly brought to bear upon it.
-- Among the first of these volun-teers was Jerry Cruncher himself, who modestly concealed his spiky head from the observation of Tellson's, in the fur-ther corner of the mourning coach.
-- He was not improved in habits, or in looks, or in manner; but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity about him, which was new to the observation of Charles Darnay.
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：
-- One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house: 'Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 32 Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, One is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.
-- Yegor listened attentively, and obviously quite took in Levin's idea, but by way of assent to it he enunciated, greatly to Levin's surprise, the observation that when he had lived with good masters he had always been satisfied with his masters, and now was perfectly satisfied with his employer, though he was a Frenchman.
-- Low as was his opinion of Golenishtchev's capacity for understanding art, trifling as was the true remark upon the fidelity of the expression of Pilate as an official, and offensive as might have seemed the utterance of so unimportant an observation while nothing was said of more serious points, Mihailov was in an ecstasy of delight at this observation.
-- Your picture is so fine that my observation cannot detract from it, and, besides, it is only my personal opinion.
-- He wanted to bring her back to the first words she had uttered about her childhood; but after a pause of some length, as though against his own will, he made an observation in response to her last words.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This observation furnished the detective food for thought, and meanwhile the consul went away to his office.
-- The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily by the glare of the torches, and a dim light crept through the windows of the pagoda.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he was practicing the tactful observation he was going to present two minutes from now, he could still hear the clumsy thing he had said two minutes before.
-- He could not get himself to give up his reliance on whisky, and he could see no way of discontinuing the phage-injection of all who came begging for it, but he turned both injection and manufacture over to others, and went back to the most rigid observation of his experiment in St. Swithin's .
-- VII Before Martin took leave he had to assemble the notes of his phage experiment; add the observation of Stokes and Twyford to his own first precise figures.
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：
-- And yet he had a very grave prob-lem before him, to put it back and to escape observation as far as possible in doing so.
-- It is quite the con-trary, an observation apropos of the style occurred to me that is by no means irrelevant as things stand.
-- You made the observation yourself just now very aptly and wittily.'
-- (Ras-kolnikov had made no observation of the kind.)
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This may be fancy, though I think the memory of most of us can gofarther back into such times than many of us suppose; just as Ibelieve the power of observation in numbers of very youngchildren to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy.
-- I often saw themwalking in the garden where the peaches were, and I sometimeshad a nearer observation of them in the study or the parlour.
-- 'Like enough,' he returned; 'though there's a sarcastic meaning inthat observation for an amiable piece of innocence like my youngfriend.
-- A timely observation of the sense of power that there was in hisface, did more to bring back to my remembrance the entreaty ofAgnes, in its full force, than any effort I could have made.
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