assert是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 维护; 宣称，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His latent uneasiness had been, that bad aims were being worked out in his own unhappy land by bad instru-344 A tale of two citiesments, and that he who could not fail to know that he was better than they, was not there, trying to do something to stay bloodshed, and assert the claims of mercy and human-ity.
-- The intention with which he had done what he had done, even although he had left it incomplete, presented it before him in an aspect that would be gratefully acknowl-edged in France on his presenting himself to assert it.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No doubt it would, in its anxiety, run off to the police, and then to the 'Hue and Cry' office, to announce that 'the finder will be handsomely rewarded,' and at last away to the hospital; yet we may boldly assert that the soul is shrewdest when it shakes off every fetter, and every sort of leading-string the body only makes it stupid.
-- The swallows did not know anything about it; but the Stork looked musing, nodded his head, and said, 'Yes; I think I know; I met many ships as I was flying hither from Egypt; on the ships were magnificent masts, and I venture to assert that it was they that smelt so of fir.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert..." "I never did assert it," thought Konstantin Levin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
-- And yet you are bold enough to assert that he is an honest man!"
-- The next morning at dawn they espied the coast, and John Bunsby was able to assert that they were not one hundred miles from Shanghai.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in the whole Institute there was not one man who would, in all states of liquor, assert that the work of any other scientist anywhere was completely sound, or that there was a single one of his rivals who had not stolen ideas from him.
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：
-- No, to put it more strongly and more distinctly; not can you but dare you, looking upon me, assert that I am not a pig?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes, to make it a more sovereign specific, he was so kind asto squeeze orange-juice into it, or to stir it up with ginger, ordissolve a peppermint-drop in it; and although I cannot assert thatthe flavour was improved by these experiments, or that it wasexactly the compound one would have chosen for a stomachic, thelast thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank itgratefully, and was very sensible of his attention.
-- I shall begin to assert the privilegesof a mother-in-law, if you go on like that, and scold you.
-- I feel that the time is arrived when Mr. Micawber shouldexert himself and- I will add- assert himself, and it appears to methat these are the means.
-- You are their champion, and assert their rights.
-- Mr. T.will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that Ihave become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he hassold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been hisprincipal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could almost assert that you had named Mr. Frank Churchill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, this was but conjecture, and the whole series of actions was so idly put forth as to make it rash to assert that intention had any part in them at all.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither is this at all to be wondered at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe; which I can assert upon expe-rience, having been so curious as to weigh and measure them.
-- The names of all which virtues are still retained among us in most languages, and are to be met with in modern, as well as ancient authors; which I am able to assert from my own small reading.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in vain for Bounderby to bluster or to assert himself in any of his explosive ways; Mrs. Sparsit was resolved to have compassion on him, as a Victim.
-- Mr. Bounderby, under the influence of this difficult adjuration, backed up by her compassionate eye, could only scratch his head in a feeble and ridiculous manner, and afterwards assert himself at a distance, by being heard to bully the small fry of business all the morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Dorrit also had been utterly discomfited, and quite unable to assert himself in any way.
-- The idea of daring to pretend to assert that you have eyes in your head, and yet ask me what's the matter!'
-- 'Amy, my dear Amy,' retorted Fanny, parodying her words, 'I know that I wish to have a more defined and distinct position, in which I can assert myself with greater effect against that insolent woman.'
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