assumption是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 假定， 设想； 采取； 承担； 推测； 假装，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, when his nephew, leaning an elbow on the table, covered his eyes thoughtfully and dejectedly with his hand, the fine mask looked at him sideways with a stronger con-centration of keenness, closeness, and dislike, than was 173comportable with its wearer's assumption of indifference.
-- To show you how mistaken you are, and what an unfound-ed assumption yours is, I will lay before you a certificate of Cly's burial, which I happened to have carried in my pock-et-book,' with a hurried hand he produced and opened it, 'ever since.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin rather disliked his holiday attitude to life and a sort of free and easy assumption of elegance.
-- The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which was promised him, but which he still could not believe in--so marvelous it seemed--presented itself to his mind, on one hand, as a happiness so immense, and therefore so incredible; on the other, as an event so mysterious, that this assumption of a definite knowledge of what would be, and consequent preparation for it, as for something ordinary that did happen to people, jarred on him as confusing and humiliating.
-- Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The assumption roused something sturdy and defensive in Martin: "Oh, I don't care a hang how socialistic he is--whatever that means.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I write on the assumption that Rodion Romanovitch who appeared so ill at my visit, suddenly recovered two hours later and so, being able to leave the house, may visit you also.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a bright air and manner about her now, by which she seemed to imply that the desirability of her existence could not be questioned; and this rather saucy assumption failed in being offensive because a beholder felt it to be, upon the whole, true.
-- Bathsheba's momentary impulse at hearing this was to ask why he thought that, till she remembered that, far from being a conceited assumption on Boldwood's part, it was but the natural conclusion of serious reflection based on deceptive premises of her own offering.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the shadows, Scarlett glared at her, too tired to rail, too tired to upbraid, too tired to enumerate Prissy'soffenses her boastful assumption of experience she didn't possess, her fright, her blundering awkwardness, her utterinefficiency when the emergency was hot, the misplacing of the scissors, the spilling of the basin of water on the bed,the dropping of the new born baby.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was with considerable difficulty that I won him over to the assumption of a dress more like a prosperous farmer's; and we arranged that he should cut his hair close, and wear a little powder.
-- said I, with the best assumption I could put on of its being nothing more to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both Mr. Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner; with their legs wider apart than the general run of men, and with a very knowing assumption of being stiff in the knees.
-- This vicious assumption of honesty in dishonesty a vice so dangerous, so deadly, and so common seemed, he observed, a little to impress her in his favour.
-- Feeling it necessary to do something then, he stretched himself out at greater length, and, reclining with the back of his head on the end of the sofa, and smoking with an infinite assumption of negligence, turned his common face, and not too sober eyes, towards the face looking down upon him so carelessly yet so potently.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Pancks, after another stiffening of his hair, looked on at the Patriarchal assumption of the broad-brimmed hat, with a momentary appearance of indecision contending with a sense of injury.
-- Mr F.'s Aunt, who had eaten her pie with great solemnity, and who had been elaborating some grievous scheme of injury in her mind since her first assumption of that public position on the Marshal's steps, took the present opportunity of addressing the following Sibyllic apostrophe to the relict of her late nephew.
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：
-- I was taken aback by her assumption that I knew all about her domestic misfortune.
-- I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation; there is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, yes, I know all about it,' replied the girl, laughing hysterically; and shaking her head from side to side, with a poor assumption of indifference.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was, it did not go beyond the light assumption of words.
-- Naturally, Hurstwood, who was a little above the order of mind which accepted this standard as perfect, who had shrewdness and much assumption of dignity, who held an imposing and authoritative position, and commanded friendship by intuitive tact in handling people, was quite a figure.
-- George, Jr., manifested even greater touchiness and exaggeration in the matter of his individual rights, and attempted to make all feel that he was a man with a man's privileges--an assumption which, of all things, is most groundless and pointless in a youth of nineteen.
-- It was very evident that he had a great contempt for any assumption of dignity or innocence on the part of these young women.
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