select是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 选择， 挑选a. 精选的， 选择的，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：
-- They had yet to select the island for Ayrton's banishment.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much of what I tell you is no doubt quite irrelevant, but still I feel that it is best that I should let you have all the facts and leave you to select for yourself those which will be of most service to you in helping you to your conclusions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general had once belonged to a very select circle of society, but he had been turned out of it two or three years since on account of cer-tain weaknesses, in which he now indulged with all the less restraint; but his good manners remained with him to this day, in spite of all.
-- You are also forgetting, most excel-lent prince, that you are with friends, a select company; you cannot sacrifice them to these gentlemen, and it is only for you to have them turned out this instant.
-- At Pavlofsk, on weekdays, the public is more select than it is on Sundays and Saturdays, when the townsfolk come down to walk about and enjoy the park.
-- Authors, as a rule, at-tempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself.
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：
-- To Hey-ward this was a moment of feverish and impatient suspense; though the scout saw fit to select it as a fit occasion to read a lecture to his more youthful associates on the art of using firearms with discretion.
-- The hunter, like the savage whose place he filled, seemed to select among the blind signs of their wild route, with a species of instinct, seldom abating his speed, and never pausing to deliberate.
-- A spring, which many long years before had induced the natives to select the place for their temporary fortification, was soon cleared of leaves, and a fountain of crystal gushed from the bed, diffusing its waters over the verdant hillock.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was first necessary to select the trees which would afford a strong and supple bark for the work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By a slight and not unnatural mistake, sir,' said Dick, substituting another in its stead, 'I had handed you the pass-ticket of a select convivial circle called the Glorious Apollers of which I have the honour to be Perpetual Grand.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, shaking the white flakes from his clothes; 'I wonder you should select the thick of a snow storm to ramble about in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin did not seek to conceal his share in the catastrophe, but lamented with tears in his eyes that the wrong-headed and treacherous behaviour of the young person in question, had rendered it necessary that he should become the victim of certain evidence for the crown: which, if it were not precisely true, was indispensably necessary for the safety of him (Mr. Fagin) and a few select friends.
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