examine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 检查， 调查； 对…进行考试，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：
-- That, the lofty example of this immacu-late and unimpeachable witness for the Crown, to refer to whom however unworthily was an honour, had communi-cated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's table-drawers and pockets, and secrete his papers.
-- As I serve my gun that day, I resolve, when the place shall fall, 453to examine that cell.
-- I examine it, very closely.
-- I have made it my busi-ness to examine some specimens of the writing of Doctor Manette.
-- 'Let me examine it.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That may be,' said the Raven; 'I did not examine him so minutely; but I know from my tame sweetheart, that when he came into the court-yard of the palace, and saw the body-guard in silver, the lackeys on the staircase, he was not the least abashed; he nodded, and said to them, 'It must be very tiresome to stand on the stairs; for my part, I shall go in.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The celebrated physician, a very handsome man, still youngish, asked to examine the patient.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch did not know that his friend Lidia Ivanovna, noticing that he was not as well as usual that year, had begged the doctor to go and examine him.
-- "You must ask the doctor to examine the wet-nurse," said Alexey Alexandrovitch.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds.
-- "Well, gentlemen," said he, "I'm off, you see; and, if you will examine my passport when I get back, you will be able to judge whether I have accomplished the journey agreed upon."
-- He would not deign to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south-east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette.
-- Did he examine to see if there were any practicable outlet from his prison?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Leora received the idea that he was going off to a death- haunted isle, to a place of strange ways and trees and faces (a place, probably, where they spoke funny languages and didn't have movies or tooth-paste), she took the notion secretively away with her, to look at it and examine it, precisely as she often stole little foods from the table and hid them and meditatively ate them at odd hours of the night, with the pleased expression of a bad child.
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：
-- The policeman bent over to examine her more closely, and his face worked with genuine compassion.
-- At once he rushed to the light to examine the sock and the rags.
-- In short,' he shouted, feeling that the phrase about his ill-ness was still more out of place, 'in short, kindly examine me or let me go, at once.
-- And if you must examine me, do so in the proper form!I will not allow you to do so otherwise, and so meanwhile, good-bye, as we have evidently nothing to keep us now.'
-- Shaking with feverish chill he bent down to examine the bed: there was nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now leisure to examine the purse.
-- I know that a great many emptybottles were one of the consequences of this traffic, and that certainmen and boys were employed to examine them against the light,and reject those that were flawed, and to rinse and wash them.
-- The remembrance of that life is fraught with somuch pain to me, with so much mental suffering and want of hope,that I have never had the courage even to examine how long I wasdoomed to lead it.
-- Tiffey and myself, Mr. Copperfield, areabout to examine the desk, the drawers, and other such repositoriesof the deceased, with the view of sealing up his private papers, andsearching for a will.
-- In fulfilment of the compact I have made with myself, to reflect mymind on this paper, I again examine it, closely, and bring its secretsto the light.
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