prosecute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 起诉, 告发; 实行, 从事，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：
-- Thus the enterprise of these generous Scots had failed!Failed!a despairing word that finds no echo in a brave soul; and yet under the repeated blows of adverse fate, Glenarvan himself was compelled to acknowledge his inability to prosecute his devoted efforts.
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：
-- At oth-ers he will with his own hands tear down some other man's gate and declare that a path has existed there from time im-memorial, defying the owner to prosecute him for trespass.
-- If he would confine his energies to this all would be well, but there are rumours that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next-of-kin, because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.
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：
-- Instead of rushing in a confused and disorderly throng to the cavern, ten of the wisest and firmest among the chiefs were selected to prosecute the investigation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you find that you have a right to prosecute me legally, to arrest me, then prosecute me, arrest me.
-- 'This time Luzhin did not want to prosecute you,' he be-gan, not looking at Sonia, 'but if he had wanted to, if it had suited his plans, he would have sent you to prison if it had not been for Lebeziatnikov and me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "[A] "I have already said that I cannot prosecute them in the absence of witnesses," said the assistant prosecutor, "and I will so declare to the court."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am told I am not to prosecute you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she walked quite aimlessly for a time, turning here and there, seeing one great company after another, but finding no courage to prosecute her single inquiry.
-- If the money were returned, they would not trouble to prosecute him, as they really bore him no ill-will.
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