assume是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 假定; 承担; 使用，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：
-- I well understand that, even if Miss Manette held me at this moment in her innocent heart-do not think I have the presumption to assume so much I could retain no place in it against her love for her father.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew that when the time came, and when he saw his enemy facing him, and studiously endeavoring to assume an expression of indifference, his speech would flow of itself better than he could prepare it now.
-- "I assume that a salary is the price paid for a commodity, and it ought to conform with the law of supply and demand.
-- And the more he worked in this cause, the more incontestable it seemed to him that it was a cause destined to assume vast dimensions, to create an epoch.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I assume you agree with me, or you will when you have had an opportunity to see the effect our work has on the city, and the success we have in selling the idea of Better Health, that what the world needs is a really inspired, courageous, overtowering leader-- say a Billy Sunday of the movement--a man who would know how to use sensationalism properly and wake the people out of their sloth.
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：
-- 'What made me think,' he reflected, as he went under the gateway, 'what made me think that she would be sure not to be at home at that moment!Why, why, why did I assume this so certainly?'
-- 'It's nothing but misfortunes now,' she added sud-denly with that peculiarly sedate air which children try hard to assume when they want to speak like grown-up people.
-- 'Assume that you are my first patient well we fellows just 318 Crime and Punishmentbeginning to practise love our first patients as if they were our children, and some almost fall in love with them.
-- But you've only to assume that I, too, am a man et nihil humanum 芒聙娄 in a word, that I am capable of being attracted and falling in love (which does not depend on our will), then everything can be explained in the most natural manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- 'It is not for one situated, through his original errors and afortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the founderedBark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime adenomination), who now takes the pen to address you- it is not, Irepeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language ofcompliment, or of congratulation.
-- The spirit of Agnes so pervaded all we thought, and said, and did,in that time of sorrow, that I assume I may refer the project to herinfluence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had only himself to please in his choice: his fortune was his own; for as to Frank, it was more than being tacitly brought up as his uncle's heir, it had become so avowed an 18 Emmaadoption as to have him assume the name of Churchill on coming of age.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pert injunction was like those crystal substances which, colourless themselves, assume the tone of objects about them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw, with surprise and grief, the leaves decay and fall, and nature again assume the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was old enough, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could assume that dignity I was not to be what Mrs. Joe called "Pompeyed," or (as I render it) pampered.
-- I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume that expression.
-- However, I came into town on the Monday night to be ready for Joe, and I got up early in the morning, and caused the sitting-room and breakfast-table to assume their most splendid appearance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The proposal is like yourself, and if the position I shall assume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale ''Why, of course it is,' said Bounderby.
-- Walking through this extraordinarily black town, while they were getting dinner ready at the hotel, I asked a fellow whom I met; one of the working people; who appeared to have been taking a shower-bath of something fluffy, which I assume to be the raw material 'Mrs. Sparsit inclined her head.
-- Besides being a rough handling of his wounded mind, it seemed to assume that he really was the self-interested deserter he had been called.
-- I may assume that there is a second to be mentioned?'
-- In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My good humor began to assume a mythological character.
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