protest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 抗议; 反对; v. 抗议; 申明，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：
-- Presently ruins came in sight, crumbling buildings, which the night invested with grandeur, the sad remains of a deserted settlement, whose name will be an eternal protest against these fertile shores and forests full of game.
-- "I protest against leaving out the horse," said Paganel.
-- "Never!But I protest against it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he shouted frantically, observing that Daria Alexeyevna was approaching to protest against Nastasia's conduct.
-- 'I am myself a medical man' (he did not say 'doctor'), with which words he waved his hands towards the room and its contents as though in protest at his present condition.
-- A protest is some-times no small thing.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Menelaus then upbraided Antilochus and said, 'There is no greater trickster living than you are; go, and bad luck go with you; the Achaeans say not well that you have understanding, and come what may you shall not bear away the prize without sworn protest on my part.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there they were, crushing each other, and pushing and pulling with all their might, and getting the trunk tight and fast in all kinds of impossible angles, and to pass them was out of the question; for which sufficient reason, Mr Swiveller followed slowly behind, entering a new protest on every stair against the house of Mr Sampson Brass being thus taken by storm.
-- He would often persuade her to undertake his share of writing in addition to her own; nay, he would sometimes reward her with a hearty slap on the back, and protest that she was a devilish good fellow, a jolly dog, and so forth; all of which compliments Miss Sally would receive in entire good part and with perfect satisfaction.
-- It was in vain for Kit's mother to protest that she stood in need of nothing of the kind.
-- Before Mr Swiveller could make any reply, Mr Chuckster took occasion to enter his indignant protest against this form of inquiry; which he held to be of a disrespectful and snobbish tendency, inasmuch as the inquirer, seeing two gentlemen then and there present, should have spoken of the other gentleman; or rather (for it was not impossible that the object of his search might be of inferior quality) should have mentioned his name, leaving it to his hearers to determine his degree as they thought proper.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fortune of my children is secure, and I earn enough to live in easy circumstances, and, therefore, my protest against your, permit me to say, ill-considered actions is not based on personal interest, but on principle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only one amongst us, Conseil, seemed to protest by his indifference against the question which so interested us all, and seemed to be out of keeping with the general enthusiasm on board.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must not judge of him, Miss Dashwood, from YOUR slight acquaintance. Poor Edward! His manners are certainly not the happiest in nature. But we are not all born, you know, with the same powers, the same address. Poor fellow! to see him in a circle of strangers! to be sure it was pitiable enough! but upon my soul, I believe he has as good a heart as any in the kingdom; and I declare and protest to you I never was so shocked in my life, as when it all burst forth.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, I'll help you," said Carrie, feeling quite hardhearted at thus forcing him to humbly appeal, and yet her desire for the benefit of her earnings wrung a faint protest from her.
-- Hurstwood once asked, concealing almost completely the cynical protest and regret which prompted it.
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