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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wanted to embrace everyone on board the yacht, and beginning with Lady Helena and Mary Grant, wound up with M. Olbinett, the steward, who could only acknowledge so polite an attention by announcing that breakfast was ready.
-- 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.
-- All escape was thus hopeless, and Glenarvan having tried the walls for the twentieth time, was compelled to acknowledge that it was so.
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：
-- B MY DEAR HOLMES, If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mis-sion you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us.
-- 'I certainly wrote to him once or twice to acknowledge his delicacy and his generosity.'
-- You acknowledge now that you wrote it?'
-- 'You acknowledge then that you made an appointment with Sir Charles at the very hour and place at which he met his death, but you deny that you kept the appointment.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All is now clear, and we acknowledge the truth of your main point.
-- As to Mr. Burdovsky, allowing for his principles, we may acknowledge that he engaged in the business with very little personal aim in view.
-- 'If I were in your place, I should not acknowledge that unless it were absolutely necessary for some reason.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He to whom Apollo vouchsafes the greater endurance, and whom the Achaeans acknowledge as victor, shall take the mule back with him to his own tent, while he that is vanquished shall have the double cup.'
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：
-- 'Monsieur de Montcalm will readily acknowledge the difference in our situation,' he said, with some embarrass-ment, pointing at the same time toward those dangerous foes, who were to be seen in almost every direction.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny, but did not speak.
-- "Well, if you acknowledge that, there doesn't seem much more to be said."
-- It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
-- I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Top's conduct puzzled Cyrus Harding even more than he cared to acknowledge to himself.
-- "I must acknowledge one thing," said Herbert, "it is that Captain Harding appears rather to fear than desire the presence of human beings on our island."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thank God I acknowledge none!Nor need you either,' he added, turning to the old man, 'if you were not as weak as a reed, and nearly as senseless.'
-- When she had exhibited these leviathans of public announcement to the astonished child, she brought forth specimens of the lesser fry in the shape of hand-bills, some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies, as 'Believe me if all Jarley's wax-work so rare' 'I saw thy show in youthful prime' 'Over the water to Jarley;' while, to consult all tastes, others were composed with a view to the lighter and more facetious spirits, as a parody on the favourite air of 'If I had a donkey,' beginning,If I know'd a donkey wot wouldn't goTo see Mrs JARLEY'S wax-work show,Do you think I'd acknowledge him?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have already agreed that secrecy may be necessary, and we must acknowledge that it could not be maintained if their correspondence were to pass through Sir John's hands."
-- That her sister's affections WERE calm, she dared not deny, though she blushed to acknowledge it; and of the strength of her own, she gave a very striking proof, by still loving and respecting that sister, in spite of this mortifying conviction.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn't much use, he couldn't be much comforted; said if we was a mind to acknowledge him, that would do him more good than most anything else; so we said we would, if he would tell us how.
-- 'Well, Sally, I'm in fault, and I acknowledge it; I've been remiss; but I won't let to-morrow go by without stopping up them holes.'
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