acknowledge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 承认; 表示收到信件; 表示感谢，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：
-- The speaker seemed to acknowledge that it was inconvenient to have that different order of creature dying there, and that it would have been better if he had died in the usual obscure routine of his vermin kind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though he did not acknowledge it to himself, Alexey Alexandrovitch always tried nowadays to secure the presence of a third person in his interviews with his wife.
-- He did not acknowledge this feeling, but at the bottom of his heart he longed for her to suffer for having destroyed his peace of mind--his honor.
-- One must do one of two things: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it; or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as I do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied."
-- "But a man may feel himself unworthy sometimes to rise to that height," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, conscious of hypocrisy in admitting this religious height, but at the same time unable to bring himself to acknowledge his free-thinking views before a person who, by a single word to Pomorsky, might procure him the coveted appointment.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To have nagged would have been to admit that there were persons who did not acknowledge her sovereignty.
-- He was ashamed at first to acknowledge his seeming cowardice to Leora.
-- While he waited for it Martin manufactured more phage and helped Sondelius murder rats, and Leora listened to the midnight debates of the two men and tried to make them acknowledge that it had been wise to let her come.
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：
-- As for my division of people into ordinary and extraordi-nary, I acknowledge that it's somewhat arbitrary, but I don't insist upon exact numbers.
-- 'Briefly,' he said loudly and imperiously, rising to his feet and in so doing pushing Porfiry back a little, 'briefly, I want to know, do you acknowledge me perfectly free from suspi-cion or not?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must acknowledge that I felt it difficult to picture himquite at his ease in the raiment proposed for him by his gratefullittle niece, and that I was particularly doubtful of the policy of thecocked hat; but I kept these sentiments to myself.
-- Mr. Spenlow did not appear to know what the connection betweenMr. Murdstone and myself was; which I was glad of, for I couldnot bear to acknowledge him, even in my own breast,remembering what I did of the history of my poor mother.
-- Ihave therefore forborne to mention them to Miss Spenlow's father';looking severely at him; 'knowing how little disposition thereusually is in such cases, to acknowledge the conscientiousdischarge of duty.'
-- 'I should get up, sir, to acknowledge such an honour as this visit,'said he, 'only my limbs are rather out of sorts, and I am wheeledabout.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; and upon being applied to, he could not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias of inclination) that wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many perhaps with most people, unless taken mod-erately.
-- They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had tran-scribed it some pages ago already.
-- She went to Mrs. Goddard's accordingly the very next day, to undergo the necessary penance of communication; and a severe one it was. She had to destroy all the hopes which she had been so industri-ously feeding to appear in the ungracious character of the one preferred and acknowledge herself grossly mistaken and mis-judging in all her ideas on one subject, all her ob-172 Emmaservations, all her convictions, all her prophecies for the last six weeks.
-- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he ap-peared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind which she was always used to acknowledge in him; for with all the high opinion of himself, which she had often laid to his charge, she had never before for a moment supposed it could make him un-just to the merit of another.
-- He saw no fault in the room, he would acknowledge none which they suggested.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father was persuaded that he had sufficient reason for declining to acknowledge her, and allowed her a bare six hundred francs a year; he had further taken measures to disinherit his daughter, and had converted all his real estate into personalty, that he might leave it undivided to his son.
-- The poor child loved the father who refused to acknowledge her.
-- How he can refuse to acknowledge her I cannot think, for they are as alike as two peas."
-- The young man looked round in annoyance, saw Father Goriot, and greeted him as he went out with constrained courtesy, such as people usually show to a money-lender so long as they require his services, or the sort of respect they feel it necessary to show for some one whose reputation has been blown upon, so that they blush to acknowledge his acquaintance.
-- "Yes, certainly; the old man had two daughters; he dotes on them, so to speak, though they will scarcely acknowledge him."
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