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：
-- 'Judge not too rashly from hasty and deceptive appear-ances,' said the lady, smiling; 'though Major Heyward can assume such deep notes on occasion, believe me, his natu-ral tones are better fitted for a mellow tenor than the bass you heard.'
-- 'You may see, Magua,' he said, endeavoring to assume an air of freedom and confidence, 'that the night is closing around us, and yet we are no nearer to William Henry than when we left the encampment of Webb with the rising sun.
-- It seemed as if, with the termination of the roar of artillery and the plung-ing of shot, nature had also seized the moment to assume her mildest and most captivating form.
-- Heyward, who perceived that his superior took a mali-cious pleasure in exhibiting his contempt for the message of the French general, was fain to humor a spleen that he knew would be short-lived; he therefore, replied with as much in-difference as he could assume on such a subject: 'My request, as you know, sir, went so far as to presume to the honor of being your son.'
-- 'Enough,' said Heyward, interrupting the burst of his musical invocation; 'we understand each other; it is time that we should now assume our respective duties.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried my best to assume an airy manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vapor mist rather than clouds began to appear in the east, and assume all the prismatic colors under the influence of the solar rays.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some people by prudent management and leaving it off piece by piece like a flannel waistcoat in warm weather, even contrive, in time, to dispense with it altogether; but there be others who can assume the garment and throw it off at pleasure; and this, being the greatest and most convenient improvement, is the one most in vogue.
-- Mr Chuckster being roused, would probably have pursued this subject further, and in more emphatic language, but for a tap at the door, which seeming to announce the arrival of somebody on business, caused him to assume a greater appearance of meekness than was perhaps quite consistent with his late declaration.
-- I am not one of your players of music, stage actors, writers of books, or painters of pictures, who assume a station that the laws of their country don't recognise.
-- He was not very long in doubt; for, while he was surveying it with that knowing look which people assume when they are contemplating for the first time portraits which they ought to recognise but don't, the dwarf threw down the newspaper from which he had been chanting the words already quoted, and seizing a rusty iron bar, which he used in lieu of poker, dealt the figure such a stroke on the nose that it rocked again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff blew his nose, and, endeavoring to assume an air of calmness, said: "I can't speak through the net; nothing can be heard."
-- I assume that we are all placed in a certain position, and must assume the duties that result from that position, must support those conditions of existence into which we were born, which we have inherited from our forefathers, and which we must hand over to our posterity."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is usual to assume that the sun will go on cooling steadily in the future.
-- What so natural, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done?
-- The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Captain Nemo seemed to grow enormously, his features to assume superhuman proportions.
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：
-- "Why," thought Gudrun churlishly, "don't they have the manners to put their coats on, and not to assume such intimacy in their appearance."
-- Yet she could not help feeling rather resentful at the way in which Gudrun and Gerald should assume a right over her, a precedence.
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