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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the highest opinion of the wisdom of this same Margin, but I am bound to acknowledge that on looking back, I deem it to have been an expensive device.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he called to the miser, and said, 'Tell us now, you vagabond, where you got that gold, or I shall play on for your amusement only,' 'I stole it,' said the miser in the pres-ence of all the people; 'I acknowledge that I stole it, and that you earned it fairly.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I 138 Gulliver's Travelsshall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be al-lowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.
-- But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play.
-- Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won't expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says "that's a Post," and when he sees a Pump, says "that's a Pump," and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick.
-- 'But oh, my friends and brothers!Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!What shall we say of that man that working-man, that I should find it necessary so to libel the glorious name who, being practically and well acquainted with the grievances and wrongs of you, the injured pith and marrow of this land, and having heard you, with a noble and majestic unanimity that will make Tyrants tremble, resolve for to subscribe to the funds of the United Aggregate Tribunal, and to abide by the injunctions issued by that body for your benefit, whatever they may be what, I ask you, will you say of that working-man, since such I must acknowledge him to be, who, at such a time, deserts his post, and sells his flag; who, at such a time, turns a traitor and a craven and a recreant, who, at such a time, is not ashamed to make to you the dastardly and humiliating avowal that he will hold himself aloof, and will not be one of those associated in the gallant stand for Freedom and for Right?'
-- 'Twill be the sweetest work as ever I ha done, that puts it in my power t' acknowledge once more my lastin thankfulness for this present action.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They should be alive and frisky, and acknowledge the great god Pan.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She began with sorrowful unwillingness to acknowledge to herself that she was not strong enough to keep off the fear that no space in the life of man could overcome that quarter of a century behind the prison bars.
-- 'That you should ha at this early hour, bestow any of your priceless time upon me, is ha a compliment that I acknowledge with the greatest esteem.'
-- It has become a hum not infrequent custom for my ha personal admirers personal admirers solely to be pleased to express their desire to acknowledge my semi-official position here, by offering ha little tributes, which usually take the form of ha voluntary recognitions of my humble endeavours to hum to uphold a Tone here a Tone I beg it to be understood that I do not consider myself compromised.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always be-fore her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and to sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The evening was spent chiefly in talking over Hertford-shire news, and telling again what had already been written; and when it closed, Elizabeth, in the solitude of her cham-ber, had to meditate upon Charlotte's degree of contentment, to understand her address in guiding, and composure in bearing with, her husband, and to acknowledge that it was all done very well.
-- In truth I must acknowledge that, with all the disadvantages of this humble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of compas-sion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.'
-- Elizabeth was forced to give into a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.
-- Ever since I have known it, I have been most anxious to acknowledge to you how gratefully I feel it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me, partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what was yet before me.
-- I must not omit to acknowledge that they were wretchedly made; for if I was a bad carpen-ter, I was a worse tailor.
-- From hence I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it - to others, and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, 'Why hast thou formed me thus?'
-- He gave me all the assurances that the invention or faith of man could devise that he would comply with these most reasonable demands, and besides would owe his life to me, and acknowledge it upon all occasions as long as he lived.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why they should not openly acknowledge to her mother and herself, what their constant behaviour to each other declared to have taken place, Elinor could not imagine.
-- But it would have been more like Willoughby to acknowledge them at once.
-- They were interrupted by the entrance of Margaret; and Elinor was then at liberty to think over the representations of her mother, to acknowledge the probability of many, and hope for the justice of all.
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