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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel made the judicious observation that it was the 25th of December, the Christmas Day so dear to English hearts.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look at the slyness of her observation about Evgenie's uniform!I mean, her remark that he had retired just in time!
-- Varia had risen from her place and had started to go up-stairs to her mother; but at this observation of Gania's she turned and gazed at him attentively.
-- 'Which observation should always be made in as theatri-cal a tone as possible,' muttered Gania, shutting the window with a bang.
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：
-- Until now this personage had escaped the observation of the travelers.
-- Of them all, the straggler who brought up the rear appeared alone to betray his real thoughts, without fear of observation or dread of conse-quences.
-- The scout and his com-panions did not neglect this advantage, but the instant they were hid from observation by the bushes, they redoubled efforts that before had seemed prodigious.
-- An instant of calm observation served to assure Duncan that he was undiscovered.
-- Duncan, who understood the Mohican to allude to the fatal rifle of the scout, bent forward in earnest observation of the effect it might produce on the conquerors; but the chief was content with simply retorting: 'If the Lenape are so skillful, why is one of their bravest warriors here?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as I had no instruments to take an observation to know what latitude we were in, and not exactly knowing, or at least remember-ing, what latitude they were in, I knew not where to look for them, or when to stand off to sea towards them; otherwise I might now easily have found some of these islands.
-- About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of lon-gitude difference west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; and began to consult with me what course he should take, for the ship was leaky, and very much disabled, and he was going di-rectly back to the coast of Brazil.
-- This observation convinced me that I had nothing to do but to observe the ebbing and the flowing of the tide, and I might very easily bring my boat about the island again; but when I began to think of putting it in practice, I had such terror upon my spirits at the remembrance of the danger I had been in, that I could not think of it again with any pa-tience, but, on the contrary, I took up another resolution, which was more safe, though more laborious - and this was, that I would build, or rather make, me another periagua or canoe, and so have one for one side of the island, and one for the other.
-- But it was otherwise directed; and it may not be amiss for all people who shall meet with my story to make this just observation from it: How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.
-- This observation of mine put a great many thoughts into me, which made me at first not so easy about my new man Friday as I was be-fore; and I made no doubt but that, if Friday could get back to his own nation again, he would not only forget all his religion but all his obligation to me, and would be forward enough to give his countrymen an account of me, and come back, perhaps with a hundred or two of them, and make a feast upon me, at which he might be as merry as he used to be with those of his enemies when they were taken in war.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seen a great deal of him, have studied his sentiments and heard his opinion on subjects of literature and taste; and, upon the whole, I venture to pronounce that his mind is well-informed, enjoyment of books exceedingly great, his imagination lively, his observation just and correct, and his taste delicate and pure.
-- Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do.
-- Marianne's eagerness to be gone declared her dependence on finding him there; and Elinor was resolved not only upon gaining every new light as to his character which her own observation or the intelligence of others could give her, but likewise upon watching his behaviour to her sister with such zealous attention, as to ascertain what he was and what he meant, before many meetings had taken place.
-- It was not the first time of her feeling the same kind of conviction; for, more than once before, beginning with the observation of "your sister looks unwell to-day," or "your sister seems out of spirits," he had appeared on the point, either of disclosing, or of inquiring, something particular about her.
-- Marianne, now looking dreadfully white, and unable to stand, sunk into her chair, and Elinor, expecting every moment to see her faint, tried to screen her from the observation of others, while reviving her with lavender water.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.
-- His one observation to the point was concerning the chances of work in Chicago.
-- She had some slight gift of observation and that sense, so rich in every woman--intuition.
-- Carrie, however, was not to be reduced to the common level of observation which prevailed in the flat.
-- He knew that Carrie listened to him pleasurably, and, without the least effort, he fell into a train of observation which absorbed her fancy.
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