test是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 试验； 检验； 测验，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you should then be dissatisfied with it, you can but test its soundness for yourself; if, on the other hand, you should be satisfied with it, and it should be what it now is, it may spare all sides what is best spared.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my mind, love...both the sorts of love, which you remember Plato defines in his Banquet, served as the test of men.
-- Besides, at the bottom of his heart he had a desire to try himself, put himself to the test in regard to this girl.
-- Though at the bottom of his heart he knew that the world was shut on them, he put it to the test whether the world had not changed by now and would not receive them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We'd better hustle her off to the University Hospital, and we'll give her a test meal and get her X-rayed and take a look for Boas-Oppler bugs."
-- III He had been seeking a precipitation test for the diagnosis of syphilis which should be quicker and simpler than the Wassermann.
-- Martin had little time for anything but cultures, blood-tests, and Wassermanns for the private physicians of the city, but the work rested him, and now and then he struggled over a precipitation test which was going to replace Wassermanns and make him famous.
-- Pickerbaugh apparently believed that this research would take six weeks; Martin had hoped to do it in two years; and with the present interruptions it would require two hundred, by which time the Pickerbaughs would have eradicated syphilis and made the test useless.
-- I'm a respectable, moral young man, and Lord how I'd hate it, if it wasn't for my precipitation test and you and-- WHY do you always lose your trunk check?
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：
-- Then the idea struck me, too, that you wanted to test her, to see whether, when she found it, she would come to thank you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 554'It seems to us,' said she, 'prudent, Mr. Traddles, to bring thesefeelings to the test of our own observation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What possessed her to indulge in such a performance in the sight of the sparrows, blackbirds, and unperceived farmer who were alone its spectators, whether the smile began as a factitious one, to test her capacity in that art, nobody knows; it ended certainly in a real smile.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was, however, a servant of the king's who favoured the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to 299be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said: 'The lion wants to make the king believe that you are girls.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The test of a woman is when you pinch her bottom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Affery, my woman,' said Mr Flintwinch grimly, after advancing his nose to that lady's lips as a test for the detection of spirituous liquors, 'if you don't get tea pretty quick, old woman, you'll become sensible of a rustle and a touch that'll send you flying to the other end of the kitchen.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All were unconscious that this experience was a test of character, and when the first excitement was over, felt that they had done well and deserved praise.
-- If she and John love one another, they can wait, and test the love by doing so.
-- 'Criticism is the best test of such work, for it will show her both unsuspected merits and faults, and help her to do better next time.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Jonah's Captain prepares to test the length of Jonah's purse, ere he judge him openly.
-- The sailors mark him; more and more certain grow their suspicions of him, and at last, fully to test the truth, by referring the whole matter to high Heaven, they fall to casting lots, to see for whose cause this great tempest was upon them.
-- At any rate though indeed such a test at such a time might be deceptive spoutings might be discovered from our low boat that seemed playing up almost from the rim of the horizon.
-- Because there are skeleton authorities you can refer to, to test my accuracy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having held the first bottle up to the light, and shaken it well to test its excellence, Mr. Bumble placed them both on top of a chest of drawers; folded the handkerchief in which they had been wrapped; put it carefully in his pocket; and took up his hat, as if to go.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, still more affected, was earnest and solemn in her reply; and at length, by repeated assurances that Mr. Darcy was really the object of her choice, by explaining the gradual change which her estimation of him had undergone, relating her absolute certainty that his affection was not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months sus-pense, and enumerating with energy all his good qualities, she did conquer her father's incredulity, and reconcile him to the match.
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