representation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 描写； 陈述； 代表，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hero's wife and one child, the hobby-horse, the doctor, the foreign gentleman who not being familiar with the language is unable in the representation to express his ideas otherwise than by the utterance of the word 'Shallabalah' three distinct times, the radical neighbour who will by no means admit that a tin bell is an organ, the executioner, and the devil, were all here.
-- All these proceedings naturally made the child more watchful and suspicious, and she soon observed that whenever they halted to perform outside a village alehouse or other place, Mr Codlin while he went through his share of the entertainments kept his eye steadily upon her and the old man, or with a show of great friendship and consideration invited the latter to lean upon his arm, and so held him tight until the representation was over and they again went forward.
-- A mass of timber on its head, carved into the dim and distant semblance of a cocked hat, together with a representation of a star on the left breast and epaulettes on the shoulders, denoted that it was intended for the effigy of some famous admiral; but, without those helps, any observer might have supposed it the authentic portrait of a distinguished merman, or great sea-monster.
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：
-- Then came a representation of the light and graceful move-ments of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired.
-- The form of Uncas dilated, and his nostrils opened like those of a tiger at bay; but so rigid and unyielding was his posture, that he might easily have been converted by the imagination into an exquisite and faultless representation of the warlike deity of his tribe.
-- His robe was of the finest skins, which had been deprived of their fur, in order to admit of a hieroglyphi-cal representation of various deeds in arms, done in former ages.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To her he looked for comfort; and her assurances of safety, her representation of the ex-cellence of the horses, and of James, and of their having so many friends about them, revived him a little.
-- The truth of this representation there was no denying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I never assisted at any other representation of George Barnwell, I don't know how long it may usually take; but I know very well that it took until half-past nine o' clock that night, and that when Mr. Wopsle got into Newgate, I thought he never would go to the scaffold, he became so much slower than at any former period of his disgraceful career.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he reader may be disposed to wonder how I could pre-Tvail on myself to give so free a representation of my own species, among a race of mortals who are already too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of humankind, from that entire congruity between me and their Yahoos.
-- Let me deal so candidly with the reader as to confess that there was yet a much stronger motive for the freedom I took in my representation of things.
-- 'He was the more confirmed in this opinion, because, he observed, that as I agreed in every feature of my body with other Yahoos, except where it was to my real disadvantage in point of strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws, and some other particulars where nature had no part; so from the representation I had given him of our lives, our manners, and our actions, he found as near a resemblance 330 Gulliver's Travelsin the disposition of our minds.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?'
-- 'My dear Louisa, then consent to receive the submissive representation of your devoted friend, who knows something of several varieties of his excellent fellow-creatures for excellent they are, I am quite ready to believe, in spite of such little foibles as always helping themselves to what they can get hold of.
-- 'I fear, father,' hesitated Louisa, 'that he must have made some representation to Stephen Blackpool perhaps in my name, perhaps in his own which induced him to do in good faith and honesty, what he had never done before, and to wait about the Bank those two or three nights before he left the town.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There never was a Chivery a gentleman that ever I heard of, and I will not commit the meanness of making a false representation on a subject so momentous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Coffin-plates, elm-chips, bright-headed nails, and shreds of black cloth, lay scattered on the floor; and the wall behind the counter was ornamented with a lively representation of two mutes in very stiff neckcloths, on duty at a large private door, with a hearse drawn by four black steeds, approaching in the distance.
-- This done, amidst the breathless interest of all beholders, they came in again; and Mr. Giles and Brittles were put through a melodramatic representation of their share in the previous night's adventures: which they performed some six times over: contradicting each other, in not more than one important respect, the first time, and in not more than a dozen the last.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If we thought alike of Miss Bingley,' replied Jane, 'your representation of all this might make me quite easy.
-- But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that, to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure, is praise no less generally be-stowed on you and your elder sister, than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both.
-- From what she had said of her resolution to prevent their mar- riage, it occurred to Elizabeth that she must meditate an application to her nephew; and how HE might take a simi-lar representation of the evils attached to a connection with her, she dared not pronounce.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She now found that she had erred in relying on Elinor's representation of herself; and justly concluded that every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was really moved by her excellent representation and the general appearance of the pathetic little figure as it swayed and finally fainted to the floor.
-- Time proved the representation false.
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