demonstrate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 论证, 证明; 示威，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- booth at which celebrated clergymen and other physiologists would demonstrate the evils of alcohol.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his de-tractors reported, 'he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place;' neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposi-tion in the mathematics.
-- He said, 'that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathemat-ical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, NOW, when my sentence is out and my days numbered!How can morality have need of my last breaths, and why should I die listening to the consolations offered by the prince, who, without doubt, would not omit to demonstrate that death is actually a benefactor to me?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feel-ing into enthusiasm.
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