modify是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 修改; 修饰，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the solution of the problem submitted to me may modify the form of the dilemma.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabetha Prokofievna sometimes informed the girls that they were a little too candid in this matter, but in spite of their outward deference to their mother these three young women, in solemn conclave, had long agreed to modify the unquestioning obedience which they had been in the habit of according to her; and Mrs. General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But certain local causes may considerably modify this figure.
-- Although I still believe in the theory of central heat, I confess that certain circumstances, hitherto very ill defined, may modify the laws of such natural phenomena.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After he had studied his paper a few moments longer, he felt that he ought to modify matters in some way or other.
-- One evening, Hurstwood, after thinking about a way to modify Carrie's desire for clothes and the general strain upon his ability to provide, said: "I don't think I'll ever be able to do much with Shaughnessy."
-- Hurstwood was not inwardly pleased to think that they should have to modify their state, but he argued that he could do nothing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You begin to see that it is a possible thing to transplant tissue from one part of an animal to another, or from one animal to another; to alter its chemical reac-tions and methods of growth; to modify the articulations of its limbs; and, indeed, to change it in its most intimate structure.
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