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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they started, and, after walking about half an hour, the country began to assume a new aspect, suddenly changing its sterility for cultivation.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And if I might make so bold as to ask " "That I think, is all," said the stranger, with that quietly irresistible air of finality he could assume at will.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My fellow-crea-tures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I know that is the case, but as we progress will not the atmosphere finally assume the density of water?"
-- On that memorable day the tunnel had begun to assume an almost horizontal course.
-- Soon the rapidity of the descent began to assume frightful proportions; and menaced a fearful fall.
-- The sound began to assume that of a mighty cataract.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I assume this to be the case, then.'
-- I assume that?'
-- A faint misgiving, which had hung about her since their accession to fortune, that even now she could never see him as he used to be before the prison days, had gradually begun to assume form in her mind.
-- Your mother's opinion of him, I am to assume (following your example of assuming this and that), was vastly different.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A distinguished personage happened to visit the school that morning, and Amy's beautifully drawn maps received praise, which honor to her foe rankled in the soul of Miss Snow, and caused Miss March to assume the airs of a studi-ous young peacock.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.
-- But as you come nearer to this great head it begins to assume different aspects, according to your point of view.
-- But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the Sperm Whale's hump.
-- Assume it, and it follows that if all the blood in a man could be aerated with one breath, he might then seal up his nostrils and not fetch another for a considerable time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now,' said Mr. Brownlow, speaking if possible in a kinder, but at the same time in a much more serious manner, than Oliver had ever known him assume yet, 'I want you to pay great attention, my boy, to what I am going to say.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance mere-ly to show off before the ladies.'
-- Wickham's alarm now appeared in a heightened com-plexion and agitated look; for a few minuted he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents: 'You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the APPEARANCE of what is right.
-- She felt that she had no business at Pemberley, and was obliged to assume a disinclination for seeing it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its endless buildings look grey, its sky and its streets assume a sombre hue; the scattered, leafless trees and wind-blown dust and paper but add to the general solemnity of colour.
-- A loafing professional had been called in to assume the role of Ray, and, while he was a poor stick of his kind, he was not troubled by any of those qualms which attack the spirit of those who have never faced an audience.
-- She could not, for the life of her, assume the attitude and smartness of Mrs. Vance, who, in her beauty, was all assurance.
-- At that hour, when Broadway is wont to assume its most interesting aspect, a peculiar individual invariably took his stand at the corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Broadway--a spot which is also intersected by Fifth Avenue.
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