elevate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 提升…的职位; 提高, 改善; 使情绪高昂, 使兴高采烈; 举起, 使上升，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He knows nothing,' said Defarge; 'at least nothing more than would easily elevate himself to a gallows of the same height.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They're not afraid of any audience, and the way they throw themselves into it--perhaps not Broadway, but the more refined theaters in New York would just love them, and maybe they've been sent to us to elevate the drama.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.
-- Who had been at pains to give Harriet notions of self-consequence but herself? Who but herself had taught her, that she was to elevate herself if possible, and that her claims were great to a high worldly establish-ment? If Harriet, from being humble, were grown vain, it was her doing too.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will elevate you to the nobility with a rope!You can walk!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excellent friend!How sincerely did you love me and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own!A selfish pursuit had cramped and nar-rowed me until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses; I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
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