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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in all that history was there a fact, was there a solitary incident that could justify the discoverers of these islands in considering them as "a continent."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was there something in the whole aspect of the man, to-day, sufficient to justify the prince's terror, and the awful suspicions of his demon?
-- She spoke the lines in so serious and exalted a manner, and with so much taste, that she even seemed to justify the exaggerated solemnity with which she had stepped forward.
-- I insist on this point in order to justify him; I repeat that his simple-mind-edness makes him worthy of pity, and that he cannot stand alone; otherwise he would have behaved like a scoundrel in this matter.
-- 'But though I do not recognize any jurisdiction over my-self, still I know that I shall be judged, when I am nothing but a voiceless lump of clay; therefore I do not wish to go be-fore I have left a word of reply the reply of a free man not one forced to justify himself oh no!I have no need to ask forgiveness of anyone.
-- The signature will tell you all, so that I need explain nothing, nor attempt to justify myself.
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：
-- There is sufficient historical truth in the picture to justify the use that has been made of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the pony, with a presentiment that he was going home, or a determination that he would not go anywhere else (which was the same thing) trotted away pretty nimbly, Kit had no time to justify himself, and went his way also.
-- 'Gentlemen,' said Brass, drawing off his glove, and crawling in spirit upon the ground before them, 'I will justify the tenderness with which I know I shall be treated; and as, without tenderness, I should, now that this discovery has been made, stand in the worst position of the three, you may depend upon it I will make a clean breast.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only was there no answer, but all reasoning tended to explain and justify punishment, the necessity of which was considered an axiom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And time will one day justify Maury's other opinion, that these substances thus accumulated for ages will become petrified by the action of the water and will then form inexhaustible coal-mines a precious reserve prepared by far-seeing Nature for the moment when men shall have exhausted the mines of continents.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't know why one should have to justify oneself."
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the third or fourth morning after their being thus resettled in Berkeley Street, Mrs. Jennings, on returning from her ordinary visit to Mrs. Palmer, entered the drawing-room, where Elinor was sitting by herself, with an air of such hurrying importance as prepared her to hear something wonderful; and giving her time only to form that idea, began directly to justify it, by saying,"Lord!my dear Miss Dashwood!have you heard the news?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had no special evidence wherewith to justify herself--the knowledge of something which would give her both authority and excuse.
-- He expected to find her, to justify his return by claiming that he came to get the remaining portion of his wardrobe, and before he got away again to patch up a peace.
-- It is to be observed that the man did not justify himself to himself.
-- As he looked back now and analysed the situation which led up to his taking the money, he began mildly to justify himself.
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