define是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 给…下定义； 阐述； 阐释； 限定， 规定，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger ever present danger, which is the more terrible because I am unable to define it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Define what it is you find..." "Pardon, let me say all I have to say.
-- "What sense is there in murdering a man in order to define one's relation to a guilty wife and son?
-- His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
-- But Vronsky felt that now especially it was essential for him to clear up and define his position if he were to avoid getting into difficulties.
-- Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at being aware that what they had so long been struggling to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of its being attacked.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he found that it was impossible to define his work, except that he was to do a little of everything that Pickerbaugh, the press, or any stray citizen of Nautilus might think of.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thou-sand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I became imbued with the notion on that first occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what means.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not define to himself at all clearly what harmony was.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this I was forced to define and describe by putting cases and making suppo-sitions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!'
-- I asked her if she would know how to define a horse to-morrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when she was asked.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was the astonishment of Martha, what the joy of Gretchen!I will not attempt to define it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next: how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals, so as conspicuously to label him for all time to come?
-- With that view, let me learnedly define it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few years however will settle her opinions on the reasonable basis of common sense and observation; and then they may be more easy to define and to justify than they now are, by any body but herself."
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