patent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明显的, 获得专利的; n. 专利, 专利 权, 专利品; vt. 取得…专利，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he happened on a job to translate the advertisements of patent medicines which were sent broadcast to the medical profession in England.
-- Though these pictures confused and puzzled me, I could not be unmoved by the emotion that was patent in them; and, I knew not why, I felt in myself a feeling that with regard to Strickland was the last I had ever expected to experience.
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