show是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 节目， 表演v. 上演(戏剧等) ， 放映(电影)，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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this will show you how much Mowgli had to learn by heart, and he grew very tired of saying the same thing over a hundred times.
-- said Mowgli, delight-ed to show off.
-- One of the monkeys made a speech and told his companions that Mowgli's capture marked a new thing in the history of the Bandar-log, for Mowgli was go-ing to show them how to weave sticks and canes together as a protection against rain and cold.
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：
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- Hawkeye, let us eat to-night, and show the Maquas that we are men to-morrow.'
-- 'If we were alone, and you would leave that noble horse at the mercy of the wolves to-night, I could show you the way to Edward my-self, within an hour, for it lies only about an hour's journey hence; but with such ladies in your company 'tis impossi-ble!'
-- 'This fire begins to show too bright a flame,' he contin-ued, as they complied, 'and might light the Mingoes to our undoing.
-- Uncas, drop the blanket, and show the knaves its dark side.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
-- And there was an old gentleman who shall be nameless, being too rich a myn-heer to be lightly mentioned, who, in the battle of White Plains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a mus-ket-ball with a small-sword, insomuch that he absolutely felt it whiz round the blade, and glance off at the hilt; in proof of which he was ready at any time to show the sword, with the hilt a little bent.
-- Summoning up, therefore, a show of courage, he demanded in stammering accents, ' Who are you?'
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 cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
-- "I asked him to show him that I really had a husband.
-- I had nothing to say and so sat silent, trying politely to show interest in the conversation; and because I thought no one was in the least concerned with me, examined Strickland at my ease.
-- I think Mrs. Strickland was glad to show me her children, and she accepted my invitation with alacrity.
-- She was very unhappy, but to excite my sympathy she was able to make a show of her unhappiness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could not leave it either, as the sea surrounded them; they must therefore put off till the next day their search for the engineer, from whom, alas!not a single cry had reached them to show that he was still in existence.
-- "I hope so," replied the engineer, "provided you and Pencroft, my boy, show yourselves quick and clever hunters."
-- It was the slender crescent moon, already almost disappearing; but its light was sufficient to show clearly the horizontal line, then detached from the cloud, and the engineer could see its reflection trembling for an instant on a liquid surface.
-- He went to the beach, and as the pickaxe when it escaped from the hands of the reporter must have fallen perpendicularly to the foot of the cliff, the finding it would be sufficient to show the place where the hole had been pierced in the granite.
-- Pencroft then returned to Granite House, enchanted with his capture, and, as usual, he made a great show of his game.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- said the other, returning to his seat after having paced the room twice or thrice, 'will you talk seriously for two minutes, if I show you a way to make your fortune with very little trouble?'
-- Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
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