presume是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 假定， 假设， 认为， 揣测， 滥用， 擅自行动，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I presume that your husband has told you the grounds on which I consider it necessary to change my attitude to Anna Arkadyevna?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a great liking for you, and your defection, your going back to private practice merely for commercial gain, your selling out for what I presume is a very high emolument, is one of the very greatest blows I have recently had to sustain.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At your mamma's request, through Afanasy Ivanovitch Vahrushin, of whom I presume you have heard more than once, a remittance is sent to you from our office,' the man began, addressing Raskolnikov.
-- 'Judging from that remark, we may certainly presume that you were reckoning on our helplessness,' Dounia ob-served irritably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 159I had two or three shillings of my week's money in my pocket-from which I presume that it must have been on a Wednesdaynight when we held this conversation- and I hastily producedthem, and with heartfelt emotion begged Mrs. Micawber to acceptof them as a loan.
-- 'Don't presume to sayso!I am nothing of the sort.
-- 'I speak, if I may presume to say so, as one who has some littleexperience of such things,' said Traddles, 'being myself engaged toa young lady- one of ten, down in Devonshire- and seeing noprobability, at present, of our engagement coming to atermination.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is a great pleasure where one can indulge in it,' said the young man, 'though there are not many houses that I should presume on so far; but in coming home I felt I might do any thing.'
-- The regular and best families Emma could hardly suppose they would presume to invite neither Donwell, nor Hartfield, nor Randalls.
-- Harriet, tempted by every thing and swayed by half a word, was always very long at a purchase; and while she was still hanging over muslins and changing her mind, Emma went to the door for amusement. Much could not be hoped from the traffic of even the busiest part of Highbury; Mr. Perry walking hastily by, Mr. William Cox letting himself in at the office-door, Mr. Cole's carriage-horses returning from exercise, or a stray letter-boy on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman 282 Emmatravelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gin-gerbread, she knew she had no reason to complain, and was amused enough; quite enough still to stand at the door.
-- You have scolded me too much for match-making, for me to presume to take such a liberty with you.
-- The thing is deter-mined, that is (laughing affectedly) as far as I can presume to determine any thing without the concurrence of my lord and master.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity?
-- He directed that those who had already beheld me should return home, and not presume to come within fifty yards of my house, without license from the court; whereby the secretaries of state got considerable fees.
-- '2d, He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors.
-- And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by cham-bermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
-- Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he won-dered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggra-vation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty's apartment (which he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discon-tent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.
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：
-- Since I don't know any woman I want, and never see one...why, I presume I'm cold, and really LIKE some women very much.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear Arthur force of habit, Mr Clennam every way more delicate and adapted to existing circumstances I must beg to be excused for taking the liberty of this intrusion but I thought I might so far presume upon old times for ever faded never more to bloom as to call with Mr F.'s Aunt to congratulate and offer best wishes, A great deal superior to China not to be denied and much nearer though higher up!'
-- The noble Refrigerator assented; but added that if William Barnacle and Tudor Stiltstalking, when they came over to one another and formed their ever-memorable coalition, had boldly muzzled the newspapers, and rendered it penal for any Editor-person to presume to discuss the conduct of any appointed authority abroad or at home, he thought the country would have been preserved.
-- He had requested Mr Rugg not to presume upon the place in which he found him, but to do his duty, sir, and to do it with promptitude.
-- 'How do you presume to come here?
-- Did she presume on my birth, or on my hire?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
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