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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The long surface of the steel cigar no longer offered a single point to check its manoeuvres.
-- I could not check its pulsations.
-- I crept along the dark stairs of the Nautilus, stopping at each step to check the beating of my heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dick looked at Miss Sally, wondering that she didn't check this uncommon exuberance on the part of Mr Sampson; but as she made no attempt to do so, and rather appeared to exhibit a tacit acquiescence in it, he concluded that they had just been cheating somebody, and receiving the bill.
-- After a moment's reflection, Mr Swiveller determined to forego his responsible duty of setting her right, and to suffer her to talk on; as it was evident that her tongue was loosened by the purl, and her opportunities for conversation were not so frequent as to render a momentary check of little consequence.
-- The gamblers, Isaac List and Jowl, with their trusty confederate Mr James Groves of unimpeachable memory, pursued their course with varying success, until the failure of a spirited enterprise in the way of their profession, dispersed them in various directions, and caused their career to receive a sudden check from the long and strong arm of the law.
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