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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'It only remains to indicate the part which she had played throughout.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As Hall stood there he heard his wife's voice coming out of the depth of the cellar, with that rapid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He distorted his lower lip, and nodded his head hope-lessly at the grey-haired man beside him, to indicate his powerlessness to help me.
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 looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt; I watched her eyes for some tell-tale flash, some hint of dismay or bitterness; I scanned her brow for any passing line that might indicate a settling emotion.
-- I could have wished that Strickland had used some other phrase to indicate his refusal.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I see," said the prosecutor, with the same faint smile which seemed to indicate that such statements were familiar to him, and belonged to an amusing class of people well known to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Here, as in the drawing-room, I have them always under my eyes, and they indicate my position and exact direction in the middle of the ocean.
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