explanation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 解释， 说明，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A distressing explanation of this anxiety to be rid of him at that point now ensued.
-- IN THE SUN A HARBINGERA week passed, and there were no tidings of Bathsheba; nor was there any explanation of her Gilpin's rig.
-- The sill was three or four feet above the ground, and for a moment one was at a loss for an explanation of this exceptional altitude, till ruts immediately beneath suggested that the door was used solely for the passage of articles and persons to and from the level of a vehicle standing on the outside.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and gal-vanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me.
-- But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me, and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.'
-- I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created.
-- I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she was back at Tara a month before Ellen expectedher, with no explanation of her return.
-- Captain Randall and the occupants of the carriage smothered smiles at this naive explanation of rifle pits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?
-- Probably it is through Provis that you have received the explanation of Magwitch--in New South Wales?"
-- I had not seen him alone since the disastrous issue of the attempted flight; and he had come, in his private and personal capacity, to say a few words of explanation in reference to that failure.
-- "Which I do assure you, Pip," he would often say, in explanation of that liberty; "I found her a tapping the spare bed, like a cask of beer, and drawing off the feathers in a bucket, for sale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was not particularly well; for he remained in the greatest perplexity, and, as the hours went on, and no kind of explanation offered itself, his perplexity augmented at compound interest.
-- Therefore those who expect any explanation whatever upon that branch of the subject, will be disappointed particularly Tom Gradgrind, and he can't know it too soon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My explanation however satisfied him, and having gotten the key, she soon contrived to get sufficient to satisfy our voracious appetites.
-- The explanation to this I soon discovered.
-- Hence the explanation of those heavy clouds suspended over our heads, and the superabundant display of that electricity which occasioned such terrible storms in this deep and cavernous sea.
-- This lucid explanation of the phenomena we had witnessed appeared to me quite satisfactory.
-- The plain truth was, that there was no explanation possible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Clennam had two things to do before he followed; one, to offer his testimonial to the Father of the Marshalsea, without giving pain to his child; the other to say something to that child, though it were but a word, in explanation of his having come there.
-- This elicited a word or two of explanation from Clennam, during the delivery of which the short dark man held his breath and looked at him.
-- 'One remark,' said Flora, giving their conversation, without the slightest notice and to the great terror of Clennam, the tone of a love-quarrel, 'I wish to make, one explanation I wish to offer, when your Mama came and made a scene of it with my Papa and when I was called down into the little breakfast-room where they were looking at one another with your Mama's parasol between them seated on two chairs like mad bulls what was I to do?'
-- 'One more remark,' proceeded Flora with unslackened volubility, 'I wish to make, one more explanation I wish to offer, for five days I had a cold in the head from crying which I passed entirely in the back drawing-room there is the back drawing-room still on the first floor and still at the back of the house to confirm my words when that dreary period had passed a lull succeeded years rolled on and Mr F. became acquainted with us at a mutual friend's, he was all attention he called next day he soon began to call three evenings a week and to send in little things for supper it was not love on Mr F.'s part it was adoration, Mr F. proposed with the full approval of Papa and what could I do?'
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