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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the objection which I made just now in the name of all, to the presence of your friends, I think I ought to explain, gentle-men, that I only did so to assert our rights, though we really wished to have witnesses; we had agreed unanimously upon the point before we came in.
-- But you'll admit what a riddle it must have been for us when that calm, cold, little spitfire, Aglaya (for she stood up to her mother and answered her questions with inexpress-ible contempt, and mine still more so, because, like a fool, I thought it my duty to assert myself as head of the fam-ily) when Aglaya stood up of a sudden and informed us that 'that madwoman' (strangely enough, she used exactly the same expression as you did) 'has taken it into her head to marry me to Prince Lef Nicolaievitch, and therefore is doing her best to choke Evgenie Pavlovitch off, and rid the house of him.'
-- Oh, my dear prince,' Lebedeff added most emphatically, 'I do not posi-tively assert that he has ...
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another school of opinion followed Mr. Fearenside, and either accepted the piebald view or some modification of it; as, for instance, Silas Durgan, who was heard to assert that "if he choses to show enself at fairs he'd make his fortune in no time," and being a bit of a theologian, compared the stranger to the man with the one talent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as my hand is taken from them the beast begins to creep back, begins to assert itself again.'
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：
-- Let us then hope that this Mohican may not disappoint our wishes, but prove what his looks assert him to be, a brave and constant friend.'
-- Whenever he alluded to any present (and the subtle Indian neglected none), the dark countenance of the flattered in-dividual gleamed with exultation, nor did he even hesitate to assert the truth of the words, by gestures of applause and confirmation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the ladies being together under these circumstances, it was extremely natural that the discourse should turn upon the propensity of mankind to tyrannize over the weaker sex, and the duty that developed upon the weaker sex to resist that tyranny and assert their rights and dignity.
-- 'Did he say, for instance,' added Brass, in a kind of comfortable, cozy tone 'I don't assert that he did say so, mind; I only ask you, to refresh your memory did he say, for instance, that he was a stranger in London that it was not his humour or within his ability to give any references that he felt we had a right to require them and that, in case anything should happen to him, at any time, he particularly desired that whatever property he had upon the premises should be considered mine, as some slight recompense for the trouble and annoyance I should sustain and were you, in short,' added Brass, still more comfortably and cozily than before, 'were you induced to accept him on my behalf, as a tenant, upon those conditions?'
-- In like manner, when the aforesaid antiquaries did argue and contend that a certain secret vault was not the tomb of a grey-haired lady who had been hanged and drawn and quartered by glorious Queen Bess for succouring a wretched priest who fainted of thirst and hunger at her door, the bachelor did solemnly maintain, against all comers, that the church was hallowed by the said poor lady's ashes; that her remains had been collected in the night from four of the city's gates, and thither in secret brought, and there deposited; and the bachelor did further (being highly excited at such times) deny the glory of Queen Bess, and assert the immeasurably greater glory of the meanest woman in her realm, who had a merciful and tender heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, seeing Katiousha, and being again imbued with the feelings he formerly experienced toward her, the spiritual man raised his head and began to assert his rights.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then one needn't assert anything "He stood still, looking at the water, and throwing upon it the husks of the flowers.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg hardly knew herself, she felt so brave and independent, so glad to defend John and assert her right to love him, if she liked.
-- When the parting came he affected high spirits, to con-ceal certain inconvenient emotions which seemed inclined to assert themselves.
-- Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years of discretion, for in this fast age babies of three or four assert their rights, and get them, too, which is more than many of their elders do.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the only whales that thus sank were old, meagre, and broken-hearted creatures, their pads of lard diminished and all their bones heavy and rheumatic; then you might with some reason assert that this sinking is caused by an uncommon specific gravity in the fish so sinking, consequent upon this absence of buoyant matter in him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man of honour could not have doubted the intention, but Mr. Darcy chose to doubt it or to treat it as a merely conditional recom-mendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence in short anything or noth-ing.
-- I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to.
-- But, my dear sister, though the event has proved you right, do not think me obstinate if I still assert that, considering what her behaviour was, my confidence was as natural as your suspicion.
-- After joining in general lamentations over the dreadful sequel of this event, which Elizabeth considered as all but certain, and Miss Bennet could not assert to be wholly impossible, the former continued the subject, by saying, 'But tell me all and everything about it which I have not already heard.
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