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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, sir; does that astonish you?"
-- About eleven in the morning, being on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a troop of whales an encounter which did not astonish me, knowing that these creatures, hunted to death, had taken refuge in high latitudes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something indeed in this to astonish the most apathetic of men, and the settlers were not men of that description.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, there was no necessity of abandoning these habits, since he had lost the strength of conviction as well as the resolution, the vanity and the desire to astonish people that he had possessed in his youth.
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