indicate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 指出， 指示； 表明， 暗示，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Indeed, John, you may be right, for there is nothing in the document to indicate which shore was the scene of the catastrophe, and both points of the continent crossed by the 37th parallel, must, therefore, be explored."
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：
-- There was no trace, how-ever, of anything of the kind, nor could I discover any sign which might indicate the character or intentions of the man who lived in this singular place, save that he must be of Spar-tan habits and cared little for the comforts of life.
-- 'That seems the most reasonable theory,' said Stapleton, and he gave a sigh which I took to indicate his relief.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Englishman puckered up his lips, intending to indicate a smile that anyone should verify his saddling.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch had been divided into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the hands of his watch would then, instead of as now indicating nine o'clock in the morning, indicate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the twenty-first hour after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This one, about the temperance meeting I addressed in Des Moines--say, I had that hall, and it was jam-pack-full, lifting right up on their feet when I proved by statistics that ninety-three per cent of all insanity is caused by booze!Then this--well, it hasn't anything to do with health, directly, but it'll just indicate the opportunity you'll have here to get in touch with all the movements for civic weal."
-- He showed for Martin's somewhat brilliant work only enough enthusiasm to indicate that he was not jealous; he kept poking in to ask whether, with his new experimentation, Martin was continuing his quest for the fundamental nature of all phage, and his study of physical chemistry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Traddles had to indicate that I wasMr. Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had todivest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr.Copperfield, and altogether we were in a nice condition.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a sort of touchstone, however, she began to speak of his kindness in conveying the aunt and niece; and though his answer was in the spirit of cutting the matter short, she believed it to indicate only his disinclination to dwell on any kindness of his own.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the way he spat there was an imperturbable coolness which seemed to indicate that this was a man who would not stick at a crime to extricate himself from a false position.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, most dreadful of all, they could in no way indicate an interest in the company of gentlemen.
-- And should agentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosenreference to her dead husband.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, at last, she came round so far as to be helped downstairs, it was still necessary to keep my slate always by her, that she might indicate in writing what she could not indicate in speech.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These white vapors, called in the Icelandic language "reykir," come from hot water fountains, and indicate by their violence the volcanic activity of the soil.
-- Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced.
-- Three hours passed away without any sign to indicate what might be before us.
-- "My dear Harry--if this were the case, we should find traces of our own footsteps, some signs of our passage; and I can really see nothing to indicate our having passed this way."
-- "A man who has somewhere written his name with this very dagger--a man who has endeavored once more to indicate the right road to the interior of the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He jerked his head swiftly to indicate the candle burning on the table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Chitling was older in years than the Dodger: having perhaps numbered eighteen winters; but there was a degree of deference in his deportment towards that young gentleman which seemed to indicate that he felt himself conscious of a slight inferiority in point of genius and professional aquirements.
-- The sides and brinks of the ditches were of damp clay; but in no one place could they discern the print of men's shoes, or the slightest mark which would indicate that any feet had pressed the ground for hours before.
-- A few leaky boats drawn up on the mud, and made fast to the dwarf wall which skirted it: and here and there an oar or coil of rope: appeared, at first, to indicate that the inhabitants of these miserable cottages pursued some avocation on the river; but a glance at the shattered and useless condition of the articles thus displayed, would have led a passer-by, without much difficulty, to the conjecture that they were disposed there, rather for the preservation of appearances, than with any view to their being actually employed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few sprinkles on the window began to indicate that it was raining.
-- Before the final hundred mark was reached he began to indicate that a calamity was approaching.
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