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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Besides," said Glenarvan, "does not the word INDIEN prove we are right?"
-- "Yes," replied Glenarvan, "if you will prove to me that the fragment of a word GONIE, does not refer to the country of the Patagonians."
-- "Well, Monsieur Paganel, come along and let us prove its reality," said Lady Helena, who could not help laughing.
-- After a few minutes' thought, Ayrton replied—"I thank you, my Lord, for the confidence you show towards me, and I hope to prove worthy of it.
-- "That card rather goes to prove he was traveling alone."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But now we have to prove the connection between the man and the beast.
-- We could prove nothing against him.
-- But we have to prove all this, and we are not in a position to do it.'
-- We heard it; but we could not prove that it was running upon this man's trail.
-- 'Prove it to me!Prove it to me!And if you can do so !'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You are pleased to reproach me, your excellency, but what if I prove that I am right after all?
-- The terms are most reasonable, and I trust that your salary will very shortly prove amply sufficient for your -expenditure.
-- Therefore, if the shop existed and if this object were really in the window, it would prove that he had been able to concentrate his attention on this article at a moment when, as a general rule, his absence of mind would have been too great to admit of any such concentra-tion; in fact, very shortly after he had left the railway station in such a state of agitation.
-- Nothing would be easier than to prove the date of your birth from well-known facts; we can only look on Mr. Keller's version as a work of imagination, and one, more- over, extremely offensive both to you and your mother.
-- These three documents, their dates, and the facts mentioned in them, prove in the most undeniable manner, that eighteen months before your birth, Nico-lai Andreevitch went abroad, where he remained for three consecutive years.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace whereby you Trojans shall stay here in Troy, while the others go home to Argos and the land of the Achaeans.'
-- Let him who shall be victorious and prove to be the better man take the woman and all she has, to bear them to his own home, but let the rest swear to a solemn covenant of peace.'
-- From this spot then, with a voice that could be heard afar, he shouted to the Danaans, saying, 'Argives, shame on you cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing-bowls to the brim?
-- You vowed that you would each of you stand against a hundred or two hundred men, and now you prove no match even for one for Hector, who will be ere long set-ting our ships in a blaze.
-- He vows that he will hew the high sterns of our ships in pieces, set fire to their hulls, and make havoc of the Achaeans while they are dazed and smothered in smoke; I much fear that heaven will make good his boasting, and it will prove our lot to perish at Troy far from our home in Argos.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'If I get away I sha'n't be here,' I says, 'to prove these rap-scallions ain't your uncles, and I couldn't do it if I WAS here.
-- We are who we say we are; and in a day or two, when I get the baggage, I can prove it.
-- If these men ain't frauds, they won't object to sending for that money and letting us keep it till they prove they're all right ain't that so?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Oh, how well I know this!How well I can prove it to you!
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