believe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 相信， 认为vi. 相信， 信任， 信奉，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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot say that I have been able to conform myself, in heart and spirit, to your rules; I cannot say that I believe my forty years have been profitable or pleasant to myself, or any one; but I have habitually submitted, and I only ask you to remember it.'
-- 'I do assure you that I am, and do entreat you to believe that I am, in plain earnest.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '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.'
-- 'Yes, yes, spandy nice, and Meg has cologne on hers,' cried Jo, adding with a laugh as they went on, 'I do believe Marmee would ask that if we were all running away from an earthquake.
-- 'I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns, one glove apiece and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are silly enough to wear them,' And I think Jo was quite right.
-- So they agreed to stop complaining, to en-joy the blessings already possessed, and try to deserve them, lest they should be taken away entirely, instead of increased, and I believe they were never disappointed or sorry that they took the old woman's advice.'
-- 'I don't believe you are!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
-- "In black distress, I called my God,When I could scarce believe him mine,He bowed his ear to my complaints No more the whale did me confine.
-- It can't last for ever, thank God, and his Ramadan only comes once a year; and I don't believe it's very punctual then.
-- Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
-- So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he stopped at the fire-place, and sometimes at the door, making believe that he was staring with all his might into shop-windows.
-- With many interruptions, and repeated insults, Mr. Brownlow contrived to state his case; observing that, in the surprise of the moment, he had run after the boy because he had saw him running away; and expressing his hope that, if the magistrate should believe him, although not actually the thief, to be connected with the thieves, he would deal as leniently with him as justice would allow.
-- 'I never will believe it, sir,' replied the old lady, firmly.
-- 'You old women never believe anything but quack-doctors, and lying story-books,' growled Mr. Grimwig.
-- 'I don't believe it,' said Oliver: who had watched her closely.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing.
-- To be sure that DID seem as if he admired her indeed I rather believe he DID I heard something about it but I hardly know what something about Mr. Robin-son.'
-- 'I do not believe a word of it, my dear.
-- If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
-- 'Certainly, my dear, nobody said there were; but as to not meeting with many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few neighbourhoods larger.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as soon as it grew dusk in the evening, I changed my course, and steered directly south and by east, bending my course a little towards the east, that I might keep in with the shore; and having a fair, fresh gale of wind, and a smooth, quiet sea, I made such sail that I believe by the next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when I first made the land, I could not be less than one hundred and fifty miles south of Sallee; quite beyond the Emperor of Morocco's domin-ions, or indeed of any other king thereabouts, for we saw no people.
-- But it is impossible to describe the horrid noises, and hideous cries and howlings that were raised, as well upon the edge of the shore as higher within the country, upon the noise or report of the gun, a thing I have some reason to believe those creatures had never heard before: this con-vinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally ap-prehensive of the danger of it.
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