witness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 目击者, 见证人; 证据, 证言 vt. 目击, 注意到; 为…作证, 证明，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is doomed to wander through the world oh, woe is me! and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much better,' said Jerry, not unlike a reluctant witness at the establishment in question, 'than I, as a honest trades-man, wish to know the Bailey.'
-- That, the lofty example of this immacu-late and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an honour, had communi-cated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers.
-- He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence.
-- The ob-ject in hand being to show that the prisoner went down, with some fellow-plotter untracked, in the Dover mail on that Friday night in November five years ago, and got out of the mail in the night, as a blind, at a place where he did not remain, but from which he travelled back some dozen miles or more, to a garrison and dockyard, and there collected information; a witness was called to identify him as having been at the precise time required, in the coffee-room of an hotel in that garrison-and-dockyard town, waiting for an-other person.
-- The prisoner's counsel was cross-examining this witness with no result, except that he had never seen the prisoner on any other occasion, when the wigged gen-tleman who had all this time been looking at the ceiling of the court, wrote a word or two on a little piece of paper, screwed it up, and tossed it to him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't blame you, and God is my witness that on seeing you at the time of your illness I resolved with my whole heart to forget all that had passed between us and to begin a new life.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her lawyer was also the lawyer of F. X. Jordan, and the most eloquent witness against Martin was Dr. Irving Watters.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the first place, because I can reason that I am one, and secondly, because for a month past I have been troubling benevolent Providence, calling it to witness that not for my own fleshly lusts did I undertake it, but with a grand and noble object ha-ha!Thirdly, because I aimed at carrying it out as justly as possible, weighing, measuring and calculating.
-- If in any way whatever you know and will tell us where it is now, I assure you on my word of honour and call all present to witness that the mat-ter shall end there.
-- Mr. Lebeziatnikov can bear witness to this.
-- It will be in the presence of an official witness anyway芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 48CHAPTER IVI Fall into DisgraceIF the room to which my bed was removed were a sentient thingthat could give evidence, I might appeal to it at this day- whosleeps there now, I wonder!to bear witness for me what a heavyheart I carried to it.
-- Here my self-support gave way all atonce; and with a movement of my hands, intended to show her myragged state, and call it to witness that I had suffered something, Ibroke into a passion of crying, which I suppose had been pent upwithin me all the week.
-- 'How fortunate we are,too,' I returned, 'to have arrived to witness their happiness in thatintended marriage!I never saw people so happy.
-- My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at theJudgment Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches neverwill, I know!
-- I bound myself bythe required promise, in a most impassioned manner; called uponTraddles to witness it; and denounced myself as the most atrociousof characters if I ever swerved from it in the least degree.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Witness this very time.
-- The room at the Crown was to witness it; but it would be better than a common meeting in a crowd.
-- Circumstances that might swell to half an hour's relation, and contained multiplied proofs to her who had seen them, had passed undiscerned by her who now heard them; but the two latest occurrences to be mentioned, the two of strongest promise to Harriet, were not without some degree of witness from Emma herself. The first, was his walking with her apart from the others, in the lime-walk at Donwell, where they had been walk-ing some time before Emma came, and he had taken pains (as she was convinced) to draw her from the rest to him-self and at first, he had talked to her in a more particular way than he had ever done before, in a very particular way indeed! (Harriet could not recall it without a blush.)
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.
-- The fact is, 'tis to witness her sign some law-work about taking shares wi' another farmer for a long span o' years.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The half-obliterated inscription on the pedestal beneath determines the date of 莽卢卢 2 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 this work of art, for it bears witness to the widespread enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on his return to Paris in 1777: "Whoe'er thou art, thy master see; He is, or was, or ought to be."
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
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