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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Justice may witness against me, but I am not going to witness against myself."
-- But it was evident that were Grant found, he would be a witness against him.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our friend, Sir Henry, and the lady had halted on the path and were standing deeply absorbed in their conver-sation, when I was suddenly aware that I was not the only witness of their interview.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His healthy appearance, good colour, sound, though discoloured teeth, sturdy figure, preoccupied air during business hours, and jolly good humour during his game at cards in the evening, all bore witness to his success in life, and combined to make existence a bed of roses to his excellency.
-- This witness was the prince, who now advanced in alarm and muttered to Gania: 'Drink some water, and don't look like that!'
-- I am very sor-ry, and ask your forgiveness, but it cannot be helped and I should be very grateful if you could all stay and witness this climax.
-- Many people have borne witness to this impression; and many cannot behold an epileptic fit without a feeling of mysterious terror and dread.
-- 'A man I knew who had been to Siberia and returned, told me that he himself had been a witness of how the very most hardened criminals remembered the old general, though, in point of fact, he could never, of course, have distributed more than a few pence to each member of a party.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Priam, descendant of Dardanus, spoke, saying, 'Hear me, Trojans and Achaeans, I will now go back to the wind-beaten city of Ilius: I dare not with my own eyes witness this fight between my son and Menelaus, for Jove and the other immortals alone know which shall fall.'
-- Thus I say, and may Jove be witness between us.
-- Let Jove the mighty husband of Juno be witness to this cove-nant.'
-- When he had done speaking Hector held up his sceptre, and swore him his oath saying, 'May Jove the thunder-ing husband of Juno bear witness that no other Trojan but yourself shall mount those steeds, and that you shall have your will with them for ever.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith Mr. Huxter, conceiving he was witness of some petty larceny, leapt round his counter and ran out into the road to intercept the thief.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They say that terror is a disease, and any-how I can witness that for several years now a restless fear has dwelt in my mind, such a restless fear as a half-tamed lion cub may feel.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an instant the whole camp was in motion; the meanest soldier arousing from his lair to witness the de-parture of his comrades, and to share in the excitement and incidents of the hour.
-- It is one of their customs to write in books what they have done and seen, instead of tell-ing them in their villages, where the lie can be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and the brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness for the truth of his words.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Catherine's great attentions to Mrs. Collins you have been a daily witness of; and alto-gether I trust it does not appear that your friend has drawn an unfortunate but on this point it will be as well to be silent.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me he could not tell exactly to what degree the planta-tion was improved; but this he knew, that my partner was grown exceeding rich upon the enjoying his part of it; and that, to the best of his remembrance, he had heard that the king's third of my part, which was, it seems, granted away to some other monastery or religious house, amounted to above two hundred moidores a year: that as to my being restored to a quiet possession of it, there was no question to be made of that, my partner being alive to witness my title, and my name being also enrolled in the register of the country; also he told me that the survivors of my two trust-ees were very fair, honest people, and very wealthy; and he believed I would not only have their assistance for putting me in possession, but would find a very considerable sum of money in their hands for my account, being the produce of the farm while their fathers held the trust, and before it was given up, as above; which, as he remembered, was for about twelve years.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 26Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
-- Elinor, who knew that such grief, shocking as it was to witness it, must have its course, watched by her till this excess of suffering had somewhat spent itself, and then turning eagerly to Willoughby's letter, read as follows:Bond Street, January.
-- Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence.
-- Elinor could not hear the declaration, nor witness its proofs without sometimes wondering whether her mother ever recollected Edward.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently, he arranged his hours very much to suit himself, taking now an afternoon, now an evening, but invariably returning between eleven and twelve to witness the last hour or two of the day's business and look after the closing details.
-- Never could she witness a play without having her own ability vividly brought to consciousness.
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