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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Come and prove it.
-- 'There isnothing she would leave undone to prove it,' said I.
-- I wanted to be cutting at those trees in theforest of difficulty, under circumstances that should prove mystrength.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had not time to know how Mr. Elton took the re-proof, so rapidly did another subject succeed; for Mr. John Knightley now came into the room from examining the weather, and opened on them all with the information of the ground being covered with snow, and of its still snow-ing fast, with a strong drifting wind; concluding with these words to Mr. Woodhouse: 'This will prove a spirited beginning of your winter en-gagements, sir.
-- Her second duty now, inferior only to her father's claims, was to promote Harriet's comfort, and endeavour to prove her own affec-tion in some better method than by match-making.
-- Harriet did think him all perfection, and maintained the non-existence of any body equal to him in person or good-ness and did, in truth, prove herself more resolutely in love than Emma had foreseen; but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continu-ing very long in equal force.
-- If it be not in-convenient to you, pray let us go in, that I may prove myself to belong to the place, to be a true citizen of Highbury.
-- 'Then it can be no argument to prove that he is in love.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Oh, never mind that," said the girl, smiling, and allowing her smile to hold good for Gabriel's next remark, whatever that might prove to be.
-- It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
-- Then, as if at that instant to prove that her fortitude had been more of will than of spontaneity, she silently sank down between them and was a shapeless heap of drapery on the floor.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I will proclaim, I will prove your inno-cence.
-- Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the substance of them to you.
-- I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's conten-tion, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fel-low creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.
-- 'Maybe you are come to a place that will not prove much to your taste, but you will not be consulted as to your quarters, I promise you.'
-- Sometimes he thought that I felt deeply the degradation of being obliged to answer a charge of murder, and he endeav- oured to prove to me the futility of pride.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I will " Charles stopped, for he couldn't think of anything difficult enough of accomplishment to really prove to Scarlettthe depth of his feeling, so he said simply: "I want to marry you."
-- Graybeards in the Home Guard and members of the state militia, safe in Atlanta, insisted they couldhave managed the campaign better and drew maps on tablecloths to prove their contentions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have a notion of firing eighty-two times, if the neighborhood shouldn't complain, and that cannon of mine should prove equal to the pressure.
-- However, I proposed that he and I should walk away together to a distant point we could see, and that the boat should take us aboard there, or as near there as might prove feasible, at about noon.
-- "Which it were," said Joe, "that how you might be amongst strangers, and that how you and me having been ever friends, a wisit at such a moment might not prove unacceptabobble.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The servant could now easily prove his innocence; and the king, to make amends for the wrong, allowed him to ask a favour, and promised him the best place in the court 211that he could wish for.
-- I must first, however, prove wheth-er all you have told me about your three things is true.'
-- The king said: 'That cannot be true!How will you prove that to me?'
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