proof是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 证据， 证明； 校样， 样张，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall have the satisfaction of causing you to be strictly educated; and you will be a living proof to all who come into communication with you, of the advantages of the training you will receive.
-- In boastful proof of his promptitude and activity, as a remarkable man, and a self-made man, and a commercial wonder more admirable than Venus, who had risen out of the mud instead of the sea, he liked to show how little his domestic affairs abated his business ardour.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The manuscript volume and the smaller document are written in different hands," he said, "the cryptograph is of much later date than the book; there is an undoubted proof of the correctness of my surmise.
-- [An irrefragable proof I took it to be.]
-- "The book in which we find it is sufficient proof of its authenticity," he replied.
-- What proof have we that an eruption is not shortly about to take place?
-- But there is no proof like demonstration," added my uncle, picking one or two of these precious waifs and casting them into the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is no proof of an inconstant mind, but exactly the opposite, when the idea will not bear close comparison with the reality, and the contrast is a fatal shock to it.
-- I will only say that it is an additional proof of what one knows from all experience; that this kind of thing never answers as my poor fellow himself would say, that it never pays in one word, that it never does.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, turning to find fresh proof of it in the respectful sympathy of the young man's face.
-- Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only that, but the subtle insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of than Moby Dick.
-- In the first place, in curious proof of the fact that the above-mentioned law is still in force, I proceed to lay before you a circumstance that happened within the last two years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the patchwork coverlet which was carelessly flung over the iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, 'Let me see the child, and die.'
-- 'Oh no, I won't hurt him,' replied the officer, tearing his jacket half off his back, in proof thereof.
-- 'I knew he was shamming,' said Fang, as if this were incontestable proof of the fact.
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- If I wanted any further proof of the strictly philosophical nature of the conduct of these young gentlemen in their very delicate predicament, I should at once find it in the fact (also recorded in a foregoing part of this narrative), of their quitting the pursuit, when the general attention was fixed upon Oliver; and making immediately for their home by the shortest possible cut.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By many significant looks and silent entreaties, did she endeavour to prevent such a proof of complaisance, but in vain; Mary would not understand them; such an opportunity of exhibiting was delightful to her, and she began her song.
-- 'It is a proof of your own attachment to Hertfordshire.
-- The extravagance and general profligacy which he scrupled not to lay at Mr. Wickham's charge, exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could bring no proof of its injustice.
-- Her power was sink-ing; everything MUST sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace.
-- 'In the first place,' replied Mr. Gardiner, 'there is no abso-lute proof that they are not gone to Scotland.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That I shall not discuss, and perhaps cannot account for; but certainly they are a proof of the converse of spirits, and a secret communication between those embodied and those unembodied, and such a proof as can never be withstood; of which I shall have oc-casion to give some remarkable instances in the remainder of my solitary residence in this dismal place.
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