know是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 知道， 了解； 认识； 识别vi. 知道， 了解，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：
-- I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.
-- The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
-- Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
-- Oh!ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these.
-- But savages are strange beings; at times you do not know exactly how to take them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Lor bless her dear heart, when she has lived as long as I have, sir, and had thirteen children of her own, and all on 'em dead except two, and them in the wurkus with me, she'll know better than to take on in that way, bless her dear heart!Think what it is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do.'
-- 'I couldn't see 'em suffer before my very eyes, you know sir.'
-- You know you're an orphan, I suppose?'
-- 'You know you've got no father or mother, and that you were brought up by the parish, don't you?'
-- 'I know that boy will be hung.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you not want to know who has taken it?'
-- 'My dear Mr. Bennet,' replied his wife, 'how can you be so tiresome!You must know that I am thinking of his mar-rying one of them.'
-- 'We are not in a way to know WHAT Mr. Bingley likes,' said her mother resentfully, 'since we are not to visit.'
-- 'Aye, so it is,' cried her mother, 'and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.'
-- One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was brought in here at night, and out of a boat, but I know where I am.
-- 'Cavalletto,' said Monsieur Rigaud, suddenly withdrawing his gaze from this funnel to which they had both involuntarily turned their eyes, 'you know me for a gentleman?'
-- You know where they keep the razor.'
-- Excited into a still greater resemblance to a caged wild animal by his anxiety to know more, the prisoner leaped nimbly down, ran round the chamber, leaped nimbly up again, clasped the grate and tried to shake it, leaped down and ran, leaped up and listened, and never rested until the noise, becoming more and more distant, had died away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, 'You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army.
-- 'I know I do teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home,' began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
-- 'I don't believe any of you suffer as I do,' cried Amy, 'for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.'
-- 'I know what I mean, and you needn't be statirical about it.
-- As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
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