astonish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 使惊讶， 使吃惊，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：
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You astonish me,' said the lady, gazing as before.
-- 'How subtle you are, Afanasy Ivanovitch!You astonish me,' cried Ferdishenko.
-- You astonish me!'
-- 'And you both seem inclined to boast about it!You astonish me, but I think he is more sincere than you, for you make a regular trade of it.
-- 'Only don't lose your breath; you were in such a hurry when you began, and look what you've come to now!Don't be afraid of speaking all these ladies and gentlemen have seen far stranger people than yourself; you don't astonish THEM.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Andrew Speedy had pocketed the money, Mr. Fogg said to him, "Don't let this astonish you, sir.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thoughtit my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain, fromliving in a continual state of guerilla warfare with Mrs. Crupp; butshe disposed of that objection summarily by declaring, that, on thefirst demonstration of hostilities, she was prepared to astonish Mrs.Crupp for the whole remainder of her natural life.
-- The look of penetration with which Mrs. Micawberannounced this discovery, as if no one had ever thought of itbefore, seemed rather to astonish my aunt; who abruptly replied,'Well, ma'am, upon the whole, I shouldn't wonder if you wereright!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing in all this either to astonish or inter-est, and it caught Emma's attention only as it united with the subject which already engaged her mind.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, I shall astonish you all."
-- Perhaps in no minor point does woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false except, indeed, in that of being utterly sceptical on strictures that she knows to be true.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, and what is there to astonish you in that, old boy?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sparsit, ma'am,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'I am going to astonish you.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was one of those who never seemed to expect anything from anybody, who liked to work when he thought proper, and whose philosophy nothing could astonish or trouble.
-- It assumes regular forms, which astonish by their singular appearance.
-- "Well," said I, rather surprised, "this discovery will astonish experimental philosophers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah!Don't be hard upon the Barnacles,' said Gowan, laughing afresh, 'they are darling fellows!Even poor little Clarence, the born idiot of the family, is the most agreeable and most endearing blockhead!And by Jupiter, with a kind of cleverness in him too that would astonish you!'
-- They are very beautiful, and they astonish me, but I am not collected enough not familiar enough with myself, if you can quite understand what I mean to have all the pleasure in them that I might have.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.
-- Bless your innocent soul!If you could be in my place for a month you'd see things that would astonish you a trifle.
-- 'After doing the civil all round, and airing our best bon-net, we shall astonish you by the elegant hospitalities of our mansion, the brilliant society we shall draw about us, and the beneficial influence we shall exert over the world at large.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To know that she had the power of re-vealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate; and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeat-ing something of Bingley which might only grieve her sister further.
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