overlook是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 俯视; 忽略; 宽恕，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to the article, prince,' he said, 'I admit that I wrote it, in spite of the severe criticism of my poor friend, in whom I always overlook many things because of his unfortunate state of health.
-- Well, in a way that is in the pub-lic interest; you will admit that yourself, and after all one cannot overlook a blatant fact.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, well, we will overlook thy letting the herd run off, and perhaps I will give thee one of the rupees of the reward when I have taken the skin to Khanhiwara.'
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：
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
-- Still Magua, though daring and much ex-posed, escaped from every effort against his life, with that sort of fabled protection that was made to overlook the for-tunes of favored heroes in the legends of ancient poetry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not able to work, but one day there was a grave to be made, and he came to overlook the man who dug it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would overlook the old grief, he would put away the old ethic, he would be free in his new state.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though WHY was beyond my comprehension.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes she would prefer him to such distinction of notice, that he would chuckle aloud with joy; next day, or next hour, she would overlook him so completely, and drop him into such an abyss of obscurity, that he would groan under a weak pretence of coughing.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The quaint old garden had sheltered many pairs of lovers, and seemed expressly made for them, so sunny and seclud-ed was it, with nothing but the tower to overlook them, and the wide lake to carry away the echo of their words, as it rip-pled by below.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast.
-- But when three or four days had slided by, after meeting the children-seeking Rachel; and no spout had yet been seen; the monomaniac old man seemed distrustful of his crew's fidelity; at least, of nearly all except the Pagan harpooneers; he seemed to doubt, even, whether Stubb and Flask might not willingly overlook the sight he sought.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope he will overlook it.
-- But at length, by Elizabeth's per-suasion, he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation; and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she condescended to wait on them at Pemberley, in spite of that pollution which its woods had received, not merely from the presence of such a mistress, but the visits of her uncle and aunt from the city.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up a hill, which seemed to overlook that point where I saw the full extent of it, and resolved to ven-ture.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor has not my feelings, and therefore she may overlook it, and be happy with him.
-- If you knew what a consolation it was to me to relieve my heart speaking to you of what I am always thinking of every moment of my life, your compassion would make you overlook every thing else I am sure."
-- That Marianne, fastidious as she was, thoroughly acquainted with Mrs. Jennings' manners, and invariably disgusted by them, should overlook every inconvenience of that kind, should disregard whatever must be most wounding to her irritable feelings, in her pursuit of one object, was such a proof, so strong, so full, of the importance of that object to her, as Elinor, in spite of all that had passed, was not prepared to witness.
-- But she soon saw how likely it was that Lucy, in her self-provident care, in her haste to secure him, should overlook every thing but the risk of delay.
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