illustration是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 说明； 例证， 插图； 举例说明，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：
-- Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that 'Whatever is is right;' an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not in-clude the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
-- But, Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord, no; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once, might happen twice; whether he would have been so confident if he had seen this illustration of his rashness sooner, wheth-er he would be so confident, having seen it; and more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Today all the significance of his book rose before him with special distinctness, and whole periods ranged themselves in his mind in illustration of his theories.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He immediately drowned out even his daughters by an oration on the Home Nest: "Here you've got an illustration of Health in the Home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This new illustration of his argument so tickled Kit, that he fell backward in his chair in a state of exhaustion, pointing at the baby and shaking his sides till he rocked again.
-- And this, it must be observed, or the illustration would be incomplete, although in a business point of view she had the strongest sympathy with Mr Sampson, and would have been beyond measure indignant if he had thwarted their client in any one respect.
-- And in illustration it may be observed, that if Mr Brass, not being over-suspicious, had, without prying and listening, left his sister to manage the conference on their joint behalf, or prying and listening, had not been in such a mighty hurry to anticipate her (which he would not have been, but for his distrust and jealousy), he would probably have found himself much better off in the end.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an affecting illustration of the fallacy of human projects, to behold her lover, with the great hat pulled over his eyes, the velvet collar turned up as if it rained, the plum-coloured coat buttoned to conceal the silken waistcoat of golden sprigs, and the little direction-post pointing inexorably home, creeping along by the worst back-streets, and composing, as he went, the following new inscription for a tombstone in St George's Churchyard:'Here lie the mortal remains Of JOHN CHIVERY, Never anything worth mentioning, Who died about the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, Of a broken heart, Requesting with his last breath that the word AMY might be inscribed over his ashes, which was accordingly directed to be done, By his afflicted Parents.'
-- Moving in SocietyIf Young John Chivery had had the inclination and the power to write a satire on family pride, he would have had no need to go for an avenging illustration out of the family of his beloved.
-- Fortune-TellingLittle Dorrit received a call that same evening from Mr Plornish, who, having intimated that he wished to speak to her privately, in a series of coughs so very noticeable as to favour the idea that her father, as regarded her seamstress occupation, was an illustration of the axiom that there are no such stone-blind men as those who will not see, obtained an audience with her on the common staircase outside the door.
-- He submitted, in a low voice across the table to Bishop, that it was a kind of analogical illustration of those physical laws, in virtue of which Like flies to Like.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentle-men, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.
-- Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villian, and a viper.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A significant illustration of the fact, again and again repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a novel illustration of the tender laws of England!They let the paupers go to sleep!
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Merely to the illustration of YOUR character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Willoughby thought the same; and their behaviour at all times, was an illustration of their opinions.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting alone, she was now an illustration of the devious ways by which one who feels, rather than reasons, may be led in the pursuit of beauty.
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