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：
-- I can credit that yonder Huron was to fall by my hand, for with my own eyes I have seen it; but nothing short of being a witness will cause me to think he has met with any reward, or that Chingachgook there will be condemned at the final day.'
-- Monsieur would wish to see my camp, and witness for himself our numbers, and the impossibility of his resisting them with success?'
-- 'Yonder scattered brand can witness that no good was intended, and this Indian will testify that no harm has been done,' returned the scout, dropping his rifle across his arm again, and following Chingachgook, who just then re-appeared within the circle of light, into the bosom of the work.
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：
-- I would not stay to witness the barbarous deed, and it was only afterwards that I heard what she had done.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, at this moment, as if to bear witness to the truth of the sailor's words, two or three quadrumana showed themselves at the windows, from which they had pushed back the shutters, and saluted the real proprietors of the place with a thousand hideous grimaces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I call Heaven to witness that I never played for gain of mine, or love of play; that at every piece I staked, I whispered to myself that orphan's name and called on Heaven to bless the venture; which it never did.
-- There was a general murmur (and perhaps a very sincere one, for they were but boys) in the negative; and the tall boy, perhaps as sincerely as any of them, called those about him to witness that he had only shouted in a whisper.
-- Such a scene as there was, when Kit came in, and bursting into the rude eloquence with which Truth at length inspired him, called Heaven to witness that he was innocent, and that how the property came to be found upon him he knew not!Such a confusion of tongues, before the circumstances were related, and the proofs disclosed!Such a dead silence when all was told, and his three friends exchanged looks of doubt and amazement!
-- Now, Mr Brass's gentleman has it whispered in his ear that this witness is disposed to be friendly to the prisoner which, to say the truth, he is rather glad to hear, as his strength is considered to lie in what is familiarly termed badgering.
-- Wherefore, he begins by requesting the officer to be quite sure that this witness kisses the book, then goes to work at him, tooth and nail.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was postponing the case against the Skoptzy, although the absent witness was an entirely unnecessary one.
-- After the judges had risen, the jury, lawyers and witness also rose, and with the pleasant feeling of having already performed part of an important work, began to move hither and thither.
-- Nekhludoff, with his aunts and the servants, went through the motions, without ceasing to look on Katiousha, who brought a censer and was standing at the door; then, in the customary fashion, kissed the priest and the aunts, and was about to retire to his room when he heard Matriena Pavlovna, the old servant of Maria Ivanovna, making preparations with Katiousha to go to church and witness the consecration of the paschal bread.
-- This was, as Nekhludoff afterward learned, Maslova's mistress and a witness against her.
-- Maslenikoff said, frowning as he recalled how Fanarin, examining him as a witness the year before, in the most polite manner made him the butt of ridicule.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kill another and do yourselves no good, or spare me and keep a witness to save you from the gallows."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this occasion I was witness to one of the finest gun shots which ever made the nerves of a hunter thrill.
-- We watched, and I thought I was going to witness a strange scene.
-- He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least a witness of his vengeance.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered the house.
-- He delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity.
-- I retorted, showing a decided purple witness to refute her.
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