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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little "genre" pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Gericault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.
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：
-- Then she said with strange assumption of authority:"Yes, but even so, is the patriotic appeal an appeal to the racial instinct?
-- Ursula looked at the man who stood in the garden with his hair blowing and his eyes smiling ironically, and she cried:"Oh it makes me so cross, this assumption of male superiority!And it is such a lie!One wouldn't mind if there were any justification for it."
-- It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it.
-- He saw the yellow flare in her eyes, he knew the unthinkable overweening assumption of primacy in her.
-- So he wobbled upon a tacit assumption of social standing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
-- Applying his eye to this convenient place, he descried Mr Brass seated at the table with pen, ink, and paper, and the case-bottle of rum his own case-bottle, and his own particular Jamaica convenient to his hand; with hot water, fragrant lemons, white lump sugar, and all things fitting; from which choice materials, Sampson, by no means insensible to their claims upon his attention, had compounded a mighty glass of punch reeking hot; which he was at that very moment stirring up with a teaspoon, and contemplating with looks in which a faint assumption of sentimental regret, struggled but weakly with a bland and comfortable joy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had started with the Time Machine, I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances.
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