justify是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 证明…是正当的或有理的, 为…辩护，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first shetried to stifle the thoughts, but the hard self-honesty that lay at the base of her nature would not permit it And so, whilethe bazaar went on, while she and Melanie waited on the customers who came to their booth, her mind was busilyworking, trying to justify herself to herself a task which she seldom found difficult.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may ap-pear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.
-- These, under the name of precedents, they pro-duce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the sight of these appeared to justify my apprehension.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The awful mill-posts of most females!really shocking, really enough to justify mur-der!Or the poor thin pegs!or the trim neat things in silk stockings, without the slightest look of life!Awful, the mil-lions of meaningless legs prancing meaninglessly around!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope,' said Arthur, very doubtful what to say, 'that my respect for your daughter may explain and justify my desire to be presented to you, sir.'
-- His appearance did not at all justify the suspicion that he had been detected in designs on Mr Meagles's pocket-handkerchief; nor had he any appearance of being quarrelsome or violent.
-- I said you were the most determined woman on the face of the earth (or I meant to say so), and if you are determined to justify any object you entertain, of course you'll do it.'
-- 'Man!I justify myself by the authority of these Books,' she cried, with stern emphasis, and appearing from the sound that followed to strike the dead-weight of her arm upon the table.
-- But, as this might have been a reason for coming to the opposite conclusion, he followed out the theme again a little way in his mind; to justify himself, perhaps.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She as-sured him that no one intended to play, and the silence of the whole party on the subject seemed to justify her.
-- 'HER not objecting does not justify HIM.
-- But his pride, his abominable pride his shame-less avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr. Wickham, his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny, soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excit-ed.
-- Here was knowledge in which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothing less than a perfect understanding be-tween the parties could justify her in throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery.
-- Nothing occurred between them that could justify the hopes of his sister.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus brutish and inhuman, yet it was really nothing to me: these people had done me no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate preservation, to fall upon them, something might be said for it: but that I was yet out of their power, and they re-ally had no knowledge of me, and consequently no design upon me; and therefore it could not be just for me to fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Span-iards in all their barbarities practised in America, where they destroyed millions of these people; who, however they were idolators and barbarians, and had several bloody and barbarous rites in their customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very in-nocent people; and that the rooting them out of the country is spoken of with the utmost abhorrence and detestation by even the Spaniards themselves at this time, and by all other Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece of cruelty, unjustifiable either to God or man; and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reck-oned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian compassion; as if the kingdom of Spain were particularly eminent for the produce of a race of men who were without principles of tenderness, or the common bow-els of pity to the miserable, which is reckoned to be a mark of generous temper in the mind.
-- In the day great troubles overwhelmed my mind; and in the night I dreamed often of killing the savages and of the reasons why I might justify doing it.
-- who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for na-tional crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few years however will settle her opinions on the reasonable basis of common sense and observation; and then they may be more easy to define and to justify than they now are, by any body but herself."
-- Elinor, though she felt really interested in the welfare of Colonel Brandon, could not bestow all the wonder on his going so suddenly away, which Mrs. Jennings was desirous of her feeling; for besides that the circumstance did not in her opinion justify such lasting amazement or variety of speculation, her wonder was otherwise disposed of.
-- Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved.
-- "You know her disposition, and may believe how eagerly she would still justify him if she could."
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