discovery是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 发现； 被发现的事物，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：
-- But it is to Theodore Hertoge, a Dutchman, that the honor of the great discovery belongs.
-- "Simply that perhaps all the incidents connected with the discovery of Australia may not be known to you."
-- The stratified rocks on the shore were richly carpeted with verdure, and innumerable kangaroos were jumping over the woods and plains, just as at the time of its discovery in 1802.
-- Glenarvan related the discovery of the document, and the various attempts that had been made to follow up the precise indications given of the whereabouts of the unfortunate captives; and he concluded his account by expressing his doubt whether they should ever find the Captain after all.
-- The travelers might have fancied themselves back in those lawless times when the discovery of the first gold-fields deluged the Australian continent with the scum of Europe.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet he had taken the obvious risk of discovery in declaring that it was not so.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he finds you have not gone to Pavlofsk a terrible discovery for him he will surely go at once to that house in Petersburg Side, and watch for you there, although only this morning you gave your word of honour not to see HER, and swore that you had not come to Petersburg for that purpose.'
-- 'I'll just tell you one fact, ladies and gentlemen,' continued the latter, with apparent seriousness and even exaltation of manner, but with a suggestion of 'chaff' behind every word, as though he were laughing in his sleeve at his own non-sense 'a fact, the discovery of which, I believe, I may claim to have made by myself alone.
-- The im-portant thing is life life and nothing else!What is any 'discovery' whatever compared with the incessant, eternal discovery of life?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And suddenly, not by design but by accident, I made a discovery in physiology."
-- I was apathetic, and I tried in vain to recover the enthusiasm of my first inquiries, the passion of discovery that had enabled me to compass even the downfall of my father's grey hairs.
-- But the discovery set my mind running on wigs and masks and the like.
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：
-- Some were fished from the bottom of the lake; some have been rusting in woods since the discovery of the country; and some were never guns at all mere privateersmen's playthings!Do you think, sir, you can have Woolwich Warren in the midst of a wil-derness, three thousand miles from Great Britain?'
-- Heyward would gladly have heard more, but a gentle push from his friend urged him toward the door, and ad-monished him of the danger that might attend the discovery of their intercourse.
-- He would greatly have preferred silence and meditation to speech, when a discovery of his real condition might prove so instantly fatal.
-- The discovery was succeeded by a gen-eral exclamation of amazement.
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：
-- It was not only the bold simplification of the drawing which showed so rich and so singular a personality; it was not only the painting, though the flesh was painted with a passionate sensuality which had in it something miraculous; it was not only the solidity, so that you felt extraordinarily the weight of the body; there was also a spirituality, troubling and new, which led the imagination along unsuspected ways, and suggested dim empty spaces, lit only by the eternal stars, where the soul, all naked, adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He recounted all the events with which Cyrus was unacquainted, the last fall of the balloon, the landing on this unknown land, which appeared a desert (whatever it was, whether island or continent), the discovery of the Chimneys, the search for him, not forgetting of course Neb's devotion, the intelligence exhibited by the faithful Top, as well as many other matters.
-- The exploration, therefore, continued, and was usefully marked by a discovery which Herbert made of a tree whose fruit was edible.
-- "So, Herbert," added the engineer, "you have made a discovery of great importance to us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much as you suffer now, think of what you would have suffered if the discovery of his character had been delayed to a later period if your engagement had been carried on for months and months, as it might have been, before he chose to put an end to it.
-- "You have heard, I suppose," said he with great solemnity, as soon as he was seated, "of the very shocking discovery that took place under our roof yesterday."
-- A discovery took place," here he hesitated and looked down. "Mrs. Smith had somehow or other been informed, I imagine by some distant relation, whose interest it was to deprive me of her favour, of an affair, a connection but I need not explain myself farther," he added, looking at her with an heightened colour and an enquiring eye "your particular intimacy you have probably heard the whole story long ago."
-- Nothing but such a persuasion could have prevented his putting an end to an engagement, which, long before the discovery of it laid him open to his mother's anger, had been a continual source of disquiet and regret to him.
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