investigate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 调查, 调查研究，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to investigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire me to do it.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Colia rushed off at once to investigate the cause of the uproar.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, now that the glove had been thrown down to him, he had boldly picked it up and demanded the appointment of a special commission to investigate and verify the working of the Board of Irrigation of the lands in the Zaraisky province.
-- Now Alexey Alexandrovitch intended to demand: First, that a new commission should be formed which should be empowered to investigate the condition of the native tribes on the spot; secondly, if it should appear that the condition of the native tribes actually was such as it appeared to be from the official documents in the hands of the committee, that another new scientific commission should be appointed to investigate the deplorable condition of the native tribes from the--(1) political, (2) administrative, (3) economic, (4) ethnographical, (5) material, and (6) religious points of view; thirdly, that evidence should be required from the rival department of the measures that had been taken during the last ten years by that department for averting the disastrous conditions in which the native tribes were now placed; and fourthly and finally, that that department explain why it had, as appeared from the evidence before the committee, from No.
-- To the astonishment of the commission, he announced that he should ask permission to go himself to investigate the question on the spot.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For that matter, there was not a soul in the house who took any trouble to investigate the various chronicles of misfortunes, real or imaginary, related by the rest.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett giggled as she saw three men dragged out of the line of her charms to investigate landmarks familiar tothe girls from childhood, and cut her eye sharply to see if Ashley had taken note.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish to investigate his confused affairs so far as to ascertain whether it may not be possible, after this lapse of time, to ameliorate his unhappy condition.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged there.
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