illustrate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 举例或以图表说明, 配以插图，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So!Just at that point, to illustrate his story, out came his arm."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But directly he began to illustrate his meaning, she understood at once.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his char-acter, I cannot refrain from relating them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That swindling Pumblechook, exalted into the beneficent contriver of the whole occasion, actually took the top of the table; and, when he addressed them on the subject of my being bound, and had fiendishly congratulated them on my being liable to imprisonment if I played at cards, drank strong liquors, kept late hours or bad company, or indulged in other vagaries which the form of my indentures appeared to contemplate as next to inevitable, he placed me standing on a chair beside him to illustrate his remarks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, I ask you,' said Mr Meagles in the blandest confidence, falling back a step himself, and handing his daughter a step forward to illustrate his question: 'I ask you simply, as between man and man, you know, DID you ever hear of such damned nonsense as putting Pet in quarantine?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the course of the defence, the witty Erskine went on to illustrate his position, by alluding to a recent crim.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, because Carrie was pretty, the gentlemen who made up the advance illustrations of shows about to appear for the Sunday papers selected Carrie's photo along with others to illustrate the announcement.
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