approve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (of) 赞成， 赞许， 同意； 批准， 审议， 通过，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people all crowd round even womenthough they don't at all approve of women looking on.'
-- 'They do not at all approve of women going to see an ex-ecution there.
-- 'You don't mean to say you don't approve of the poem, Parfen Semeo-novitch,' she says.
-- If it was a joke, I do not approve of the feelings which prompted you to do it, and in any case you would have done far better not to recite it at all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Flora replied in the negative, Little Dorrit said that she understood why he had been so delicate, but that she felt sure he would approve of her confiding her secret to Flora, and that she would therefore do so now with Flora's permission.
-- 'I am glad you approve of them,' said Mr Merdle.
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 approve of corporal punishment, especially for girls.
-- She did not approve of it, but she meant to be kind, for the wellbehaved little girl pleased her very much, and Aunt March had a soft place in her old heart for her nephew's children, though she didn't think it proper to confess it.
-- 'I don't approve of the match, but I've made up my mind to bear it, and shall not say a word against it,' said Jo solemn-ly.
-- I don't mind saying that I don't approve of Tudor any more than you do, but I'm not called upon to tell him so.
-- 'If we were belles, or women of wealth and posi-tion, we might do something, perhaps, but for us to frown at one set of young gentlemen because we don't approve of them, and smile upon another set because we do, wouldn't have a particle of effect, and we should only be considered odd and puritanical.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since I have undertaken to manhandle this Leviathan, it behooves me to approve myself omnisciently exhaustive in the enterprise; not overlooking the minutest seminal germs of his blood, and spinning him out to the uttermost coil of his bowels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the whispering ceased; and the members of the board, having resumed their seats and their solemnity, Mr. Limbkins said: 'We have considered your proposition, and we don't approve of it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observa-tion and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.
-- She had been graciously pleased to approve of both of the discourses which he had already had the honour of preaching before her.
-- His attachment excited gratitude, his general character respect; but she could not approve him; nor could she for a moment repent her refusal, or feel the slightest inclination ever to see him again.
-- How far your nephew might approve of your interference in his affairs, I cannot tell; but you have certainly no right to concern yourself in mine.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters.
-- She was first called to observe and approve him farther, by a reflection which Elinor chanced one day to make on the difference between him and his sister.
-- His eyes were fixed on Marianne, and, after a silence of some minutes, he said, with a faint smile, "Your sister, I understand, does not approve of second attachments."
-- "I am sure," said she, "I have no doubt in the world of your faithfully keeping this secret, because you must know of what importance it is to us, not to have it reach his mother; for she would never approve of it, I dare say.
-- "But Mrs. John Dashwood would not much approve of Edward's going into orders."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she were a fine actress, such men as he would approve of her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' he says, 'there's excuse for picks and letting-on in a case like this; if it warn't so, I wouldn't approve of it, nor I wouldn't stand by and see the rules broke because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no busi-ness doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
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