penetrate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 穿过; 透过; 看穿, 洞察; 秘密潜入，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：
-- The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room, until, having got past the two tall candles, he saw standing to receive him by the table between them and the fire, a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travellinghat by its ribbon in her hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every time Levin tried to penetrate beyond the outer chambers of Sviazhsky's mind, which were hospitably open to all, he noticed that Sviazhsky was slightly disconcerted; faint signs of alarm were visible in his eyes, as though he were afraid Levin would understand him, and he would give him a kindly, good- humored repulse.
-- said Levin, and at once in Sviazhsky's eyes he detected that fleeting expression of alarm which he had noticed whenever he had tried to penetrate beyond the outer chambers of Sviazhsky's mind.
-- "I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be...." Anna, taking her eyes off her friend's face and dropping her eyelids (this was a new habit Dolly had not seen in her before), pondered, trying to penetrate the full significance of the words.
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：
-- I knew what I was doing,' he cried, straining every faculty to penetrate Porfiry's game, 'I was quite myself, do you hear?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe,' he said this with somehesitation, 'I penetrate your motive, and it makes the thing moredifficult.'
-- If he could think himself of so muchuse, one gleam of day might, by possibility, penetrate into thecheerless dungeon of his remaining existence- though his longevityis, at present (to say the least of it), extremely problematical.
-- I cannot so completely penetrate the mystery of my own heart, asto know when I began to think that I might have set its earliest andbrightest hopes on Agnes.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She soon believed herself to penetrate Mrs. Elton's thoughts, and understand why she was, like herself, in hap-py spirits; it was being in Miss Fairfax's confidence, and fancying herself acquainted with what was still a secret to other people.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A MORNING MEETING THE LETTER AGAINThe scarlet and orange light outside the malthouse did not penetrate to its interior, which was, as usual, lighted by a rival glow of similar hue, radiating from the hearth.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew or guessed the concerns of every one about him; but none of them had been able to penetrate his thoughts, or to discover his occupation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.
-- They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places.
-- Still I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was difficult, for Scarlett had not a subtle bone in her body; and Gerald was so much likeher he never failed to penetrate her weak subterfuges, even as she penetrated his.
-- He took in her dishabille inone glance that seemed to penetrate through her wrapper.
-- What was the General thinking about, letting the Yankees penetrate eighteen miles farther into Georgia?
-- All he had done was let the Yankees penetrate eighty-eight miles into Georgia.
-- It seemed to penetrate even her ice-locked heart and strength camecoursing back into her body.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ), what insensate folly to pretend to penetrate into the interior of the mighty earth!
-- The walls of my cavernous retreat are of solid granite, and the most fearful explosion would not make uproar enough to penetrate them.
-- I sought, amid the awful stillness, to penetrate through the distant fog, to tear down the veil which concealed the mysterious distance.
-- I cast hasty glances aloft at the suspended vapors, and I seek to penetrate their mighty depths.
-- The lower part was about level with the water, so that we were able to penetrate to the interior without difficulty.
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