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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I presume that it is Mr. Sherlock Holmes whom I am addressing and not ' 'No, this is my friend Dr.
-- 'A greater mystery to me is why this hound, presuming that all our conjectures are correct ' 'I presume nothing.'
-- 'I presume that the reason he gave was that you would re-ceive help from Sir Charles for the legal expenses connected with your divorce?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That were impossible,' returned the young man; 'he called you by a thousand endearing epithets, that I may not presume to use, but to the justice of which, I can warmly testify.
-- Heyward, who perceived that his superior took a mali-cious pleasure in exhibiting his contempt for the message of the French general, was fain to humor a spleen that he knew would be short-lived; he therefore, replied with as much in-difference as he could assume on such a subject: 'My request, as you know, sir, went so far as to presume to the honor of being your son.'
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 presume my time is no less valuable than his."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot say exactly," replied the engineer, "but I presume it is some land in the Pacific.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I wonder that you presume to speak of impulses to me' both the teachers assented 'I am astonished' both the teachers were astonished 'I suppose it is an impulse which induces you to take the part of every grovelling and debased person that comes in your way' both the teachers supposed so too.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Because I presume that it has not moved in space, and if it travelled into the future it would still be here all this time, since it must have travelled through this time."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter.
-- Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan coming that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies, with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away!High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for, alas!all fish bed in common.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Let me see any man, porochial or extra-porochial, as would presume to do it; and I can tell him that he wouldn't do it a second time!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing, indeed, and I wonder how he could presume to do it.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My first contrivance was to make a pretence to speak to this Moor, to get something for our subsistence on board; for I told him we must not presume to eat of our patron's bread.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What Drouet said about the girl's grace, as she tripped out evenings accompanied by her mother, caused Carrie to perceive the nature and value of those little modish ways which women adopt when they would presume to be something.
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