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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, chart in hand, we reviewed the travels of the French navigator, his voyages of circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole, which led to the discovery of Adelaide and Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical bearings of the principal islands of Oceania.
-- As to Captain Nemo, I asked myself what he would think of our escape; what trouble, what wrong it might cause him and what he might do in case of its discovery or failure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Proved as it was by the incident of the bullet, it was hereafter an unquestionable fact, and such a discovery could not but cause great uneasiness among the colonists.
-- But the result of this discovery of the chest was, that it was now more than ever necessary to explore the island thoroughly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pleasure of this discovery called up the old doglike smile in full force.
-- With that they parted; Mr Swiveller to make the best of his way home and sleep himself sober; and Quilp to cogitate upon the discovery he had made, and exult in the prospect of the rich field of enjoyment and reprisal it opened to him.
-- In this amiable mood, Mr Quilp enlivened himself and his hatreds with more brandy, and then, changing his quarters, withdrew to an obscure alehouse, under cover of which seclusion he instituted all possible inquiries that might lead to the discovery of the old man and his grandchild.
-- I give you my oath, constable, that down to a few minutes ago, when this fatal discovery was made, I had such confidence in that lad, that I'd have trusted him with a hackney-coach, Mr Richard, sir; you're very slow, Sir.'
-- The Marchioness, having arranged the bed-clothes more comfortably, and felt that his hands and forehead were quite cool a discovery that filled her with delight cried a little more, and then applied herself to getting tea ready, and making some thin dry toast.
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