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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I knew that even in the clearest waters the solar rays could not penetrate further.
-- Of what had passed during the night they were as ignorant as I was, and to penetrate this mystery I only reckoned upon the chances of the future.
-- "Well, we shall penetrate into that Atlantic which we do not yet know.
-- "Well, M. Aronnax," replied Captain Nemo, "we are in that Vigo Bay; and it rests with yourself whether you will penetrate its mysteries."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It made Gudrun faint with poignant dizziness, which seemed to penetrate to her heart.
-- But he dared not penetrate and drive the beast into the open.
-- He impinged invisibly upon the other man, scarcely seeming to touch him, like a garment, and then suddenly piercing in a tense fine grip that seemed to penetrate into the very quick of Gerald's being.
-- He seemed to penetrate into Gerald's more solid, more diffuse bulk, to interfuse his body through the body of the other, as if to bring it subtly into subjection, always seizing with some rapid necromantic fore-knowledge every motion of the other flesh, converting and counteracting it, playing upon the limbs and trunk of Gerald like some hard wind.
-- He, Loerke, could penetrate into depths far out of Gerald's knowledge.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prosecutor made it a rule to view the situation from the eminence of his position, i. e., to penetrate into the profound psychological meaning of crime, and bare the ulcers of society.
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