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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to examine the hull, which formed on deck a kind of horizontal platform, when I felt it gradually sinking.
-- The sudden lighting of the cabin enabled me to examine it minutely.
-- Some are known to you, such as the thermometer, which gives the internal temperature of the Nautilus; the barometer, which indicates the weight of the air and foretells the changes of the weather; the hygrometer, which marks the dryness of the atmosphere; the storm-glass, the contents of which, by decomposing, announce the approach of tempests; the compass, which guides my course; the sextant, which shows the latitude by the altitude of the sun; chronometers, by which I calculate the longitude; and glasses for day and night, which I use to examine the points of the horizon, when the Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves."
-- "If you will allow me, we will examine the stern of the Nautilus."
-- But, before proceeding to this operation, I asked the Captain's permission to examine the guns.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The business of eating being concluded, and no one uttering a word of sociable conversation, I approached a window to examine the weather.
-- Heathcliff had gone to loose the beast, and shift it to his own stall; he was passing behind it, when Hindley finished his speech by knocking him under its feet, and without stopping to examine whether his hopes were fulfilled, ran away as fast as he could.
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