testify是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 作证， 证明； (to) 表明， 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：
-- 'I should have hoped, gentlemen both,' said the spy, al-ways striving to hook Mr. Lorry into the discussion, 'that your respect for my sister ' 'I could not better testify my respect for your sister than by finally relieving her of her brother,' said Sydney Carton.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yonder scattered brand can witness that no good was intended, and this Indian will testify that no harm has been done,' returned the scout, dropping his rifle across his arm again, and following Chingachgook, who just then re-appeared within the circle of light, into the bosom of the work.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wanted to be of use to her; wanted to shew a value for her society, and testify respect and consideration.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After being questioned as to whether they preferred to testify under oath, the same old priest, with difficulty moving his legs, came, and again arranging the gold cross on his silk-covered breast, with the same calmness and confidence, began to administer the oath to the witnesses and the expert.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heaven shower down blessings on you, and save me, that I may again and again testify my gratitude for all your love and kindness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He, the uncouth object of such wide-spread adulation, the sitter at great men's feasts, the roc's egg of great ladies' assemblies, the subduer of exclusiveness, the leveller of pride, the patron of patrons, the bargain-driver with a Minister for Lordships of the Circumlocution Office, the recipient of more acknowledgment within some ten or fifteen years, at most, than had been bestowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at least he, the shining wonder, the new constellation to be followed by the wise men bringing gifts, until it stopped over a certain carrion at the bottom of a bath and disappeared was simply the greatest Forger and the greatest Thief that ever cheated the gallows.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll testify that you tried to do it,' said Laurie with a grateful look.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This will testify for me that I was not idle, and that I spared no pains to bring to pass whatever appeared necessary for my comfortable support, for I considered the keeping up a breed of tame creatures thus at my hand would be a living magazine of flesh, milk, butter, and cheese for me as long as I lived in the place, if it were to be forty years; and that keeping them in my reach depended entirely upon my per-fecting my enclosures to such a degree that I might be sure of keeping them together; which by this method, indeed, I so effectually secured, that when these little stakes began to grow, I had planted them so very thick that I was forced to pull some of them up again.
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