denote是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 是…的符号, 指示, 表示，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：
-- But I do not dispute in the least that the number of persons consumed appears to denote a spice of greediness.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might not have done so even then, but for certain impatient tapping at the door he seemed to denote that some pretty hard knuckles were actively engaged upon the other side.
-- CHAPTER 23Mr Richard Swiveller wending homeward from the Wilderness (for such was the appropriate name of Quilp's choice retreat), after a sinuous and corkscrew fashion, with many checks and stumbles; after stopping suddenly and staring about him, then as suddenly running forward for a few paces, and as suddenly halting again and shaking his head; doing everything with a jerk and nothing by premeditation; Mr Richard Swiveller wending his way homeward after this fashion, which is considered by evil-minded men to be symbolical of intoxication, and is not held by such persons to denote that state of deep wisdom and reflection in which the actor knows himself to be, began to think that possibly he had misplaced his confidence and that the dwarf might not be precisely the sort of person to whom to entrust a secret of such delicacy and importance.
-- They were very tired, and the child would have been bold enough to address even a schoolmaster, but for something in his manner which seemed to denote that he was uneasy or distressed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Straining his powers of listening to the utmost, he listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm.
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：
-- The expanded chest, full formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had reached the vigor of his days, though no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.
-- The latter did not, however, so much re-gret this circumstance, as it might enable him to retard the speed of the party; for he still turned his longing looks in the direction of Fort Edward, in the vain expectation of catching some sound from that quarter of the forest, which might denote the approach of succor.
-- He gazed at the most appalling sight with eyes and muscles that knew not how to waver, but with execrations so bitter and deep as to denote how much he denounced the crime of his enemies.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was all very promising; and, but for such an un-fortunate fancy for having his hair cut, there was nothing to denote him unworthy of the distinguished honour which her imagination had given him; the honour, if not of being really in love with her, of being at least very near it, and saved only by her own indifference (for still her resolution held of nev-er marrying) the honour, in short, of being marked out for her by all their joint acquaintance.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in real-ity, so distant as we had supposed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of Yahoo.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the stumps of harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured whales, with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence of any kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have been some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for the ulceration alluded to.
-- The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all the time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote his gentlemanly rank on board.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dawkins gave his hat a ferocious cock, after delivering this sentiment, and looked at Master Bates, as if to denote that he would feel obliged by his saying anything to the contrary.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
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