prove是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 证明, 证实; 检验; 考验; 鉴定; 结果是, 表明是,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:
-- These, however, were only the exceptions required to prove the rule that the sparrows in the plane-tree behind the house, and the echoes in the corner before it, had their own way from Sunday morning unto Saturday night.
-- Having made, at least, this one hit, whatever it might prove to be worth, and no customers coming in to help him to any other, Mr. Barsad paid for what he had drunk, and took his leave: taking occasion to say, in a genteel manner, before he departed, that he looked forward to the pleasure of seeing Monsieur and Madame Defarge again.
-- 'I am thankful that the time has come, when I can prove them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ig-norant, their neighbors might prove to be.
-- Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The princess for her part, going round the question in the manner peculiar to women, maintained that Kitty was too young, that Levin had done nothing to prove that he had serious intentions, that Kitty felt no great attraction to him, and other side issues; but she did not state the principal point, which was that she looked for a better match for her daughter, and that Levin was not to her liking, and she did not understand him.
-- Most fortunate," he said to his wife, dismissing Vronsky altogether, "that I should just have half an hour to meet you, so that I can prove my devotion," he went on in the same jesting tone.
-- And, disagreeable as it was to the princess to seem to take the first step in wishing to make the acquaintance of Madame Stahl,who thought fit to give herself airs, she made inquiries about Varenka, and, having ascertained particulars about her tending to prove that there could be no harm though little good in the acquaintance, she herself approached Varenka and made acquaintance with her.
-- Having lost his antagonist, Levin continued the conversation with the gray-whiskered landowner, trying to prove to him that all the difficulty arises from the fact that we don't find out the peculiarities and habits of our laborer; but the landowner, like all men who think independently and in isolation, was slow in taking in any other person's idea, and particularly partial to his own.
-- But in spite of all this Levin thought the system worked, and that by keeping accounts strictly and insisting on his own way, he would prove to them in the future the advantages of the arrangement, and then the system would go of itself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGGThe distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the company allow the steamers one hundred and thirty-eight hours in which to traverse it.
-- "I will prove it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you're there in the morning, the Old Cat can't prove you got in late."
-- She blandly agreed; and the next evening, when he sought to prove that surgery was all rot and most surgeons merely good carpenters, she agreed more amiably than ever.
-- Gentlemen, I shall now prove each of these points, from Professor Gottlieb's own letters to Dean Silva."
-- And ten dreadful days went by and fifteen, and all but the first case did prove to be chicken-pox.
-- The answer is that very few ever do, under any condition, willingly leave a soft bed for a shanty bunk in order to be pure, as you very properly call it, and those of us that are pioneers-- Oh, this debate could go on forever!We could prove that I'm a hero or a fool or a deserter or anything you like, but the fact is I've suddenly seen I must go!I want my freedom to work, and I herewith quit whining about it and grab it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And if the ear-rings being found in Nikolay's hands at the very day and hour of the murder constitutes an important piece of circumstantial evidence against him although the explanation given by him ac-counts for it, and therefore it does not tell seriously against him one must take into consideration the facts which prove him innocent, especially as they are facts that cannot be denied.
-- 'I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly, progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency!I undertake to!Will you bet on it?'
-- 'Done!Let's hear, please, how he will prove it!'
-- 'And you, of course, are developing her 芒聙娄 he-he!trying to prove to her that all that modesty is nonsense?'
-- Your wife will only prove how she respects you by considering you incapable of opposing her happiness and avenging yourself on her for her new husband.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The caul was won, I recollect, by an oldlady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from itthe stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopencehalfpenny short- as it took an immense time and a great waste of 10arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.
-- 'You shall prove it yourn to the pollis.'
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