assertion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 断言，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：
-- "Your honor makes rather a bold assertion there, it seems to me.
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 a man who knows for certain that he has but ten min-utes to live and can talk like that why it's it's PRIDE, that is!It is really a most extraordinary, exalted assertion of personal dignity, it's it's DEFIANT!What a GIGAN-TIC strength of will, eh?
-- I guessed that anyone who liked could deceive him, and that he would immediately forgive anyone who did de-ceive him; and it was for this that I grew to love him ' Aglaya paused for a moment, as though suddenly brought up in astonishment that she could have said these words, but at the same time a great pride shone in her eyes, like a defiant assertion that it would not matter to her if 'this woman' laughed in her face for the admission just made.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have lost many privileges; a new philosophy has become the mode; and the assertion of our station, in these days, might (I do not go so far as to say would, but might) cause us real inconvenience.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of his assertion to the contrary, she was firmly persuaded that he was as much a Christian as she, and indeed a far better one; and all that he said about it was simply one of his absurd masculine freaks, just as he would say about her broderie anglaise that good people patch holes, but that she cut them on purpose, and so on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about indignantly to give my assertion the confirmation herequired, when he caught hold of my hand, and gave it a squeeze.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reason of this assertion was, that he had now in his possession a certain wonderful Yahoo (meaning myself) which most of them had heard of, and many of them had seen.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she had that queer sort of bossiness, endless assertion of her own will, which is one of the signs of insanity in modern wom-an.
-- She felt his penis risen against her with silent amazing force and assertion and she let herself go to him She yielded with a quiver that was like death, she went all open to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
-- This family fiction was the family assertion of itself against her services.
-- I found her, to my surprise, in many respects different from my expectations; and certainly in none more so, than in meeting me with what shall I say a sort of family assertion on her own part?'
-- I object to the assertion made by my son.
-- Clennam thought (and as he thought it, again felt ashamed of himself), was this notion of being disappointed in life, an assertion of station which the bridegroom brought into the family as his property, having already carried it detrimentally into his pursuit?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among arch脙娄ologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
-- Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Caroline's assertion of her brother's being partial to Miss Darcy she paid no credit.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Astonishment, that would have been as painful as it was strong, had not an immediate disbelief of the assertion attended it.
-- The name of Willoughby, John Willoughby, frequently repeated, first caught my attention; and what followed was a positive assertion that every thing was now finally settled respecting his marriage with Miss Grey it was no longer to be a secret it would take place even within a few weeks, with many particulars of preparations and other matters.
-- Had both the children been there, the affair might have been determined too easily by measuring them at once; but as Harry only was present, it was all conjectural assertion on both sides; and every body had a right to be equally positive in their opinion, and to repeat it over and over again as often as they liked.
-- If you only hope to have your assertion contradicted, as I must suppose to be the case, you ought to recollect that I am the last person in the world to do it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her display of temper and open assertion of opposition were based upon nothing more than the feeling that she could do it.
-- He finally narrowed it down to an assertion that he was light-headed from entertaining friends, had found the safe open, and having gone so far as to take the money out, had accidentally closed it.
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