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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was about to make some energetic observation to the guide, but Hans, without taking the slightest notice of him, went in front of the horses, and walked ahead with the same imperturbable phlegm he had always exhibited.
-- This last observation referred to the obscure gallery, and was indicated to us by the compass.
-- When I awoke, My first observation was in regard to the intensity of the light.
-- "Well, if I recollect rightly," I replied, "our last observation was made at the geyser island."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The observation was extraordinary and pecu-liar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you knew the real state of the case, that's the last observation you would think of making.
-- It was her lord himself who became unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers the subject of Mrs Flintwinch's dream.
-- The cloud that Clennam had never seen upon his face before that morning, frequently overcast it again; and there was the same shadow of uneasy observation of him on the comely face of his wife.
-- It seems to me, sir, and I must insist on making this observation forcibly in justice to myself, that you ought to have got much more money, much more money.'
-- He found a contest still always going on in his breast between his promise to keep Gowan in none but good aspects before the mind of Mr Meagles, and his enforced observation of Gowan in aspects that had no good in them.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the old lady, putting up her glass for an-other observation of Meg, who tried to look as if she had not heard and been rather shocked at Mrs. Moffat's fibs.
-- Beth took an observation of the new boys and decided that the lame one was not 'dreadful', but gentle and feeble, and she would be kind to him on that account.
-- They did not always venture even to ask this question, but took an observation of the cap, and judged accordingly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.
-- It was hard upon high noon; and Ahab, seated in the bows of his high-hoisted boat, was about taking his wonted daily observation of the sun to determine his latitude.
-- At length the desired observation was taken; and with his pencil upon his ivory leg, Ahab soon calculated what his latitude must be at that precise instant.
-- For such is the wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket commanders; that from the simple observation of a whale when last descried, they will, under certain given circumstances, pretty accurately foretell both the direction in which he will continue to swim for a time, while out of sight, as well as his probable rate of progression during that period.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sowerberry remarked it and, without allowing time for any observation on the good lady's part, proceeded.
-- He took little heed of this at first; but the boy remained in the same attitude of close observation so long, that Oliver raised his head, and returned his steady look.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and at first was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk, she made some slight observation on the dance.
-- She was not rendered for-midable by silence; but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone, as marked her self-importance, and brought Mr. Wickham immediately to Elizabeth's mind; and from the observation of the day altogether, she believed Lady Catherine to be exactly what he represented.
-- Now and then they were honoured with a call from her ladyship, and nothing escaped her observation that was passing in the room during these visits.
-- Colonel Fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man, and talk-ed very pleasantly; but his cousin, after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to Mrs. Collins, sat for some time without speaking to anybody.
-- The vicious propensities the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.
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