overthrow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 推翻; 使终止, 摒弃，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：
-- Glenarvan was in despair at this complete overthrow of his hopes, and Robert walked silently beside him, with his eyes full of tears.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'With such beauty as that one might overthrow the world.'
-- I know that once when your sister Adelaida saw my por-trait she said that such beauty could overthrow the world.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Great Ajax son of Telamon will yield to no man who is in mortal mould and eats the grain of Ceres, if bronze and great stones can overthrow him.
-- Jove was minded to give victory to the Trojans and to Hector, so as to do honour to fleet Achil-les, nevertheless he did not mean to utterly overthrow the Achaean host before Ilius, and only wanted to glorify Thetis and her valiant son.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoners had been trying to overthrow the palisade, but of course had not succeeded, and were not long in becoming more tranquil.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIThe hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. It was a wretched business indeed! Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for! Such a development of every thing most unwelcome! Such a blow for Harriet! that was the worst of all.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagi-nation; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.
-- Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard Swiveller was utterly aghast at this unexpected alteration of circumstances, which threatened the complete overthrow of the project in which he bore so conspicuous a part, and seemed to nip his prospects in the bud.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham when she read with somewhat clearer at-tention a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
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