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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could feel, within the darkness, the terrible assertion of her body, the unutterable anguish of dissolution, the only anguish that is too much, the far-off, awful nausea of dissolution set in within the body.
-- Such an assertion is made merely in the desire of chaos.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This important step secured, with the assistance of a man of law whom he brought with him for the purpose, the dwarf proceeded to establish himself and his coadjutor in the house, as an assertion of his claim against all comers; and then set about making his quarters comfortable, after his own fashion.
-- As to the assertion that the flat stone near the door was not the grave of the miser who had disowned his only child and left a sum of money to the church to buy a peal of bells, the bachelor did readily admit the same, and that the place had given birth to no such man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He give a name," said Mrs. Hall an assertion which was quite unfounded "but I didn't rightly hear it."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest.
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：
-- I demand your authorities for such an uncharitable assertion (like other advocates of a system, David was not always accurate in his use of terms).
-- It were impossible to say what violent assertion the stub-born Hawkeye would have next made, in his headlong wish to vindicate his identity, had not the aged Delaware once more interposed.
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