discern是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 看出, 察觉出; 辨出, 认出，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it advanced, the mender of roads would discern without sur-prise, that it was a shaggy-haired man, of almost barbarian aspect, tall, in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads, grim, rough, swart, steeped in the mud and dust of many highways, dank with the marshy moisture of many low grounds, sprinkled with the thorns and leaves and moss of many byways through woods.
-- It was a dark winter day, and what with the shad-ows within, and what with the shadows without, he could but dimly discern the others who were brought there to have their arms bound.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She must allow him to be still fre-quently coming to look; any thing less would certainly have been too little in a lover; and he was ready at the smallest intermission of the pencil, to jump up and see the progress, and be charmed. There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a like-ness almost before it was possible.
-- It did not accord with the rationality of plan, the moderation in expense, or even the unselfish warmth of heart, which she had believed herself to discern in him yesterday.
-- Miss Woodhouse appeared more than once, and never without a something of pleasing connexion, ei-ther a compliment to her taste, or a remembrance of what she had said; and in the very last time of its meeting her eye, unadorned as it was by any such broad wreath of gal-lantry, she yet could discern the effect of her influence and acknowledge the greatest compliment perhaps of all con-veyed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- He descended Yalbury Hill and could just discern ahead of him a waggon, drawn up under a great over-hanging tree by the roadside.
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
-- Then the munching would recommence, when the lively imagination might assist the eye to discern a group of pink-white nostrils, shaped as caverns, and very clammy and humid on their surfaces, not exactly pleasant to the touch until one got used to them; the mouths beneath having a great partiality for closing upon any loose end of Bathsheba's apparel which came within reach of their tongues.
-- The paddock abutted on this end of the building, and in the paddock she could just discern by the uncertain gray a moving figure approaching the horse that was feeding there.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance!_All is true_,--so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.
-- They passed by under the window, looking at nothing else, and they did not go down to the landing-place which I could discern to be empty, but struck across the marsh in the direction of the Nore.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars; the laws that control the winds; the number of the sands on the seashore; the healing of the sick; the virtues of all sim-ples, of birds, and of precious stones.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw the ships move forward in a large half-moon, but could not discern me, who was up to my breast in water.
-- I saw him try both experiments upon a dog, but could not discern any effect from the former.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A generous nature is not prone to strong aversions, and is slow to admit them even dispassionately; but when it finds ill-will gaining upon it, and can discern between-whiles that its origin is not dispassionate, such a nature becomes distressed.
-- A loud and altered clank upon the pavement warned him, before he could discern what was passing there, that the man was coming back alone.
-- He received no answer, but could easily discern that he had hit the mark.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the magistrate was half blind and half childish, so he couldn't reasonably be expected to discern what other people did.
-- The ceiling was blackened, to prevent its colour from being injured by the flaring of the lamps; and the place was so full of dense tobacco smoke, that at first it was scarcely possible to discern anything more.
-- Sikes, again looking round, could discern that the men who had given chase were already climbing the gate of the field in which he stood; and that a couple of dogs were some paces in advance of them.
-- The sides and brinks of the ditches were of damp clay; but in no one place could they discern the print of men's shoes, or the slightest mark which would indicate that any feet had pressed the ground for hours before.
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