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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Harriet was in a tremor, and could not touch it; and Emma, never loth to be first, was obliged to examine it her-self.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As watching is best done invisibly, she usually carried a dark lantern in her hand, and every now and then turned on the light to examine nooks and corners with the coolness of a metropolitan policeman.
-- The other circumstance was the arrival of his clothes, when it became necessary for her to examine and identify them though this had virtually been done long before by those who inspected the letters in his pockets.
-- As the summer drew on she passed more of her time in the open air, and began to examine into farming matters from sheer necessity, though she never rode out or personally superintended as at former times.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
-- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
-- During this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had dis-covered in her pocket the picture of my mother, which had been judged to be the temptation of the murderer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen had taught her that at the end of each day it was her duty to examine her conscience thoroughly,to admit her numerous faults and pray to God for forgiveness and strength never to repeat them.
-- Such a breathlessweek when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute withincidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead,extracting every morsel of comfort from them dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants,smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each liftof his eyebrows, each quirk of his mouth, will be indelibly printed on your mind for a week goes by so fast and thewar goes on forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated.
-- Now it appeared to him (Pumblechook) that if that capital were got into the business, through a sleeping partner, sir,--which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in, by self or deputy, whenever he pleased, and examine the books,--and walk in twice a year and take his profits away in his pocket, to the tune of fifty per cent,--it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property, which would be worthy of his attention.
-- "N-no, my dear boy," said Herbert, after taking time to examine me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could force nothing on him but a footman's tooth, 185which I observed him to examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy for it.
-- He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crude-ness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were afraid to look; but they did examine it, and found no mark of violence, inside or out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, look; examine and judge for yourself."
-- Take the compass and examine how she points."
-- Should we ever be able to examine its distant shores?
-- I examine the horizon, now perfectly calm, pure, and free from all haze.
-- Let him only find an opening and it directly became important to him to examine its depth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Heaven's sake, let us examine sacredly whether there is any wrong entrusted to us to set right.
-- 'Doyce is highly gratified by your good opinion,' he opened the business by saying, 'and desires nothing so much as that you should examine the affairs of the Works for yourself, and entirely understand them.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also allowed her to roam about the great house, and examine the curious and pretty things stored away in the big wardrobes and the ancient chests, for Aunt March hoarded like a magpie.
-- To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago.
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