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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was not the witness of his grief, for I was lifeless and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anything was preferable to being a helpless witness to such pain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was perfectly frantic,--a reckless witness under the torture,--and would have told them anything.
-- "Raymond is a witness what ginger and sal volatile I am obliged to take in the night.
-- Raymond is a witness what nervous jerkings I have in my legs.
-- "Without expecting any thanks, or anything of the sort," resumed Camilla, "I have remained in that state, hours and hours, and Raymond is a witness of the extent to which I have choked, and what the total inefficacy of ginger has been, and I have been heard at the piano-forte tuner's across the street, where the poor mistaken children have even supposed it to be pigeons cooing at a distance,--and now to be told--" Here Camilla put her hand to her throat, and began to be quite chemical as to the formation of new combinations there.
-- He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpet-ual misfortune to be mistaken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say this, because highly connected females have been astonished to see the way in which your daughter has conducted herself, and to witness her insensibility.
-- The spectacle of a matron of classical deportment, seizing an ancient woman by the throat, and hauling her into a dwelling-house, would have been under any circumstances, sufficient temptation to all true English stragglers so blest as to witness it, to force a way into that dwelling-house and see the matter out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The struggle was awful and ferocious, I, however, did not wait to witness the result.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.
-- She glanced round the sombre room, and appeared from the motion of her lips to repeat the words to herself, as calling it to witness how little of either it afforded her.
-- 'One last remark,' resumed Flora, 'I was going to say I wish to make one last explanation I wish to offer, Mr F.'s Aunt and myself would not have intruded on business hours Mr F. having been in business and though the wine trade still business is equally business call it what you will and business habits are just the same as witness Mr F. himself who had his slippers always on the mat at ten minutes before six in the afternoon and his boots inside the fender at ten minutes before eight in the morning to the moment in all weathers light or dark would not therefore have intruded without a motive which being kindly meant it may be hoped will be kindly taken Arthur, Mr Clennam far more proper, even Doyce and Clennam probably more business-like.'
-- He had a patron who in a certain sumptuous way an apologetic way, as if he constantly took an admiring audience to witness that he really could not help being more free with this old fellow than they might have expected, on account of his simplicity and poverty was mightily good to him.
-- She had already called Arthur Clennam to bear witness to this fable, as a friend of the Meagles family; and she followed up the move by now impounding the family itself for the same purpose.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instant silence fell on the gay throng, and not a sound, but he dash of fountains or the rustle of orange groves sleeping in the moonlight, broke the hush, as Count de Adelon spoke thus: 'My lords and ladies, pardon the ruse by which I have gathered you here to witness the marriage of my daughter.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the tropics; what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the transcendent horrors they are?
-- Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue.
-- If the wind only held, little doubt had they, that chased through these Straits of Sunda, the vast host would only deploy into the Oriental seas to witness the capture of not a few of their number.
-- A veritable witness have you hitherto been, Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters, ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and cheeseries in his bowels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In reply to this incoherent questioning, the old man informed the deeply affected sister that Oliver had been taken ill in the office, and discharged in consequence of a witness having proved the robbery to have been committed by another boy, not in custody; and that the prosecutor had carried him away, in an insensible condition, to his own residence: of and concerning which, all the informant knew was, that it was somewhere in Pentonville, he having heard that word mentioned in the directions to the coachman.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
-- Of what he has PARTICULARLY accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I shall relate, I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.
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