magnify是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 放大, 扩大; 夸大, 夸张,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Having already described him in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an arch脙娄ological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Always creeping along the ground to some small end or other, hewill always magnify every object in the way; and consequently willhate and suspect everybody that comes, in the most innocentmanner, between him and it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, although their largest telescopes do not exceed three feet, they magnify much more than those of a hundred with us, and show the stars with greater clearness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- continued Mr Meagles in an apologetic way, 'I admit as a practical man, and I am sure Mother would admit as a practical woman, that we do, in families, magnify our troubles and make mountains of our molehills in a way that is calculated to be rather trying to people who look on to mere outsiders, you know, Clennam.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
-- Montcalm had filled the woods of the portage with his savages, every yell and whoop from whom rang through the British encampment, chilling the hearts of men who were already but too much disposed to magnify the danger.
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