check是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 支票， 空白支票； 总收入vt. 检查； 核对； 制止，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：
-- To extinguish it or check its progress was impossible; and they saw themselves irrevocably condemned to a torturing death, like the victims of Hindoo divinities.
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：
-- I could only check it by finding if she had, indeed, instituted divorce proceedings against her husband at or about the time of the tragedy.
-- 'The recital of these events must be very painful to you, and perhaps it will make it easier if I tell you what occurred, and you can check me if I make any material mistake.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He guessed the strength of her determination; it was beyond him to check it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger.
-- Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans.'
-- 'Check your glib tongue, Ther-sites,' said be, 'and babble not a word further.
-- 'My good friend, when your father Peleus sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon, did he not charge you saying, 'Son, Minerva and Juno will make you strong if they choose, but check your high temper, for the better part is in good-will.
-- For all his lust of battle, I take it he will be held in check when he is at my own tent and ship.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over noth-ing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
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：
-- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the dis-tant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; and, as his companions drew their reins at the same instant, the whole party came to a halt, in order to obtain an expla-nation of the unlooked-for interruption.
-- Magua had early discov-ered that in retaining the person of Alice, he possessed the most effectual check on Cora.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It will never check hers,' said the old man looking steadily at me, 'the springs are too deep.
-- It consisted of a brown body-coat with a great many brass buttons up the front and only one behind, a bright check neckerchief, a plaid waistcoat, soiled white trousers, and a very limp hat, worn with the wrong side foremost, to hide a hole in the brim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Master of the workhouse,' rejoined Mr. Bumble, slowly and impressively, to check any undue familiarity the stranger might otherwise assume.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, if Imay mention so delicate a subject, endeavour to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.'
-- In vain did Elizabeth endeavour to check the rapidity of her mother's words, or persuade her to describe her felicity in a less audible whisper; for, to her inexpressible vexation, she could perceive that the chief of it was overheard by Mr. Darcy, who sat opposite to them.
-- Elizabeth had frequently united with Jane in an endeavour to check the imprudence of Catherine and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother's indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement?
-- Hav-ing never even fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and, from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than most first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were req-uisite to check the indulgence of those regrets which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquil-lity.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But something always returned swift upon me to check these thoughts, and to reprove me; and particularly one day, walking with my gun in my hand by the seaside, I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when reason, as it were, expostulated with me the other way, thus: 'Well, you are in a desolate condition, it is true; but, pray remember, where are the rest of you?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should scold her myself, if she were capable of wishing to check the delight of your conversation with our new friend.
-- With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.
-- Had not Elinor, in the sad countenance of her sister, seen a check to all mirth, she could have been entertained by Mrs. Jennings's endeavours to cure a disappointment in love, by a variety of sweetmeats and olives, and a good fire.
-- Elinor's heart, which had undergone many changes in the course of this extraordinary conversation, was now softened again; yet she felt it her duty to check such ideas in her companion as the last.
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