assign是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 分配; 确定时间或地点; 指派，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Quilp was as innocent as her own mother of any emotion, painful or pleasant, which the sight of him awakened, but as her husband's glance made her timid and confused, and uncertain what to do or what was required of her, Mr Quilp did not fail to assign her embarrassment to the cause he had in his mind, and while he chuckled at his penetration was secretly exasperated by his jealousy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots whofight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Boar could not put me into my usual bedroom, which was engaged (probably by some one who had expectations), and could only assign me a very indifferent chamber among the pigeons and post-chaises up the yard.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- New remains, dug up from the Pliocene or Tertiary deposits, had enabled the more far-seeing or audacious among learned men to assign even a far greater degree of antiquity to the human race.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disconcerted by the cold and hard inquiry, Mr Dorrit was unable to assign any reason for his supposing so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
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