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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But on Miss Mills observing, with despondency,that it were well indeed for some hearts if this were so, I explainedthat I begged leave to restrict the observation to mortals of themasculine gender.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her regard was receiving strength by invariable praise of him, and her regrets kept alive, and feelings irritat-ed by ceaseless repetitions of Miss Hawkins's happiness, and continual observation of, how much he seemed attached! his air as he walked by the house the very sitting of his hat, being all in proof of how much he was in love!
-- He begged to be shewn the house which his father had lived in so long, and which had been the home of his father's father; and on recollecting that an old woman who had nursed him was still living, walked in quest of her cot-tage from one end of the street to the other; and though in some points of pursuit or observation there was no positive merit, they shewed, altogether, a good-will towards High-bury in general, which must be very like a merit to those he was with.
-- Her observation had been pretty correct.
-- Mrs. Weston had been shewing them all to him, and now he would shew them all to Emma; fortunate in having no other resemblance to a child, than in a total want of taste for what he saw, for he was slow, constant, and methodical. Before this second looking over was begun, however, Emma walked into the hall for the sake of a few moments' free observation of the entrance and ground-plot of the house and was hardly there, when Jane Fairfax ap-peared, coming quickly in from the garden, and with a look of escape. Little expecting to meet Miss Woodhouse so soon, there was a start at first; but Miss Woodhouse was the very person she was in quest of.
-- Even Emma grew tired at last of flattery and merriment, and wished herself rather walking quietly about with any of the others, or sitting almost alone, and quite unattended to, in tranquil observation of the beautiful views beneath her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her visual familiarity, oral strangeness.
-- It was a result which paralleled the oft-quoted observation of Hippocrates concerning physical pains.
-- Troy then came on towards his wife, stepped into the gig, took the reins from her hand, and without making any observation whipped the horse into a trot.
-- The shutters were not closed, nor was any blind or curtain drawn over the window, neither robbery nor observation being a contingency which could do much injury to the occupant of the domicile.
-- She considered that the two farms together were too extensive for the observation of one man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as she was beneath the gnarled arms of the cedars, she knew she was safe from observation from thehouse and she slowed her swift pace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That were your observation when I broke it off, Pip?"
-- Halloa being a general observation which I had usually observed to be best answered by itself, I said, "Halloa!"
-- The lull had a sedative and philosophical influence on Joe, who followed me out into the road to say, as a parting observation that might do me good, "On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip:--such is Life!"
-- I mentioned my reason for desiring to avoid observation in the village, and he lauded it to the skies.
-- In my conscience, I doubt very much whether I had any lingering intention left of going to see Joe; but if I had, this observation put it to flight.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
-- This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked:'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
-- 'Your observation being limited to "little puss,"' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'and there being two little girls in question, I did not know which might be indicated by that expression.'
-- This observation must be limited exclusively to his daughter.
-- Remarking this at a glance, with the quick observation of his class, Stephen Blackpool bent his attentive face his face, which, like the faces of many of his order, by dint of long working with eyes and hands in the midst of a prodigious noise, had acquired the concentrated look with which we are familiar in the countenances of the deaf the better to hear what she asked him.
-- Her own private sitting-room was a story higher, at the window of which post of observation she was ready, every morning, to greet Mr. Bounderby, as he came across the road, with the sympathizing recognition appropriate to a Victim.
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