warrant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 正当理由； 许可证， 委任状v. 保证， 担保，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We had warrant for what we did, my good sir,' rejoined Quilp, 'we had our warrant.
-- 'I warrant now,' he said, 'that you think all those are used in making graves.'
-- cried Sally, twitching a pinch of snuff out of her box, as spitefully as if she were in the very act of wrenching off the small servant's nose; 'she shall be safe enough from this time, I warrant you.'
-- It was not finished until evening; but, being done at last, that worthy person and the three friends adjourned in a hackney-coach to the private office of a justice, who, giving Mr Brass a warm reception and detaining him in a secure place that he might insure to himself the pleasure of seeing him on the morrow, dismissed the others with the cheering assurance that a warrant could not fail to be granted next day for the apprehension of Mr Quilp, and that a proper application and statement of all the circumstances to the secretary of state (who was fortunately in town), would no doubt procure Kit's free pardon and liberation without delay.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But 'ed or no 'ed, the warrant says 'body,' and duty's duty " "Keep off!"
-- "No doubt you are a bit difficult to see in this light, but I got a warrant and it's all correct.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing came of this incident at the time, for the truth is it did not seem conclusive enough to warrant any discussion.
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：
-- For the custom-ary attentions of your Marquis of Montcalm I warrant me, Duncan, that he of Lothian would buy a dozen such marquisates but if the news of the letter were bad, the gentility of this French monsieur would certainly compel him to let us know it.'
-- The old man made a gesture of resignation, though his rigid features still betrayed his obstinate adherence to a dis-trust, which he derived from a sort of hereditary contempt of his enemy, rather than from any present signs which might warrant so uncharitable a feeling.
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