alter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 改变, 更改，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：
-- She did not greatly alter in appearance.
-- 'By the help of Heaven you shall!Promise me solemnly that nothing will influence you to alter the course on which we now stand pledged to one another.'
-- With an encouraging nod or two, he immediately went out to alter the arrangements, and left her by herself to follow as she had proposed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now mind and don't alter anything in the house, but make haste and get married, and make everything as it used to be again.
-- It was an understood thing between them that they should not go away anywhere; but both felt, the longer they lived alone, especially in the autumn, without guests in the house, that they could not stand this existence, and that they would have to alter it.
-- And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him.
-- I can do nothing, can begin nothing, can alter nothing; I hold myself in, I wait, inventing amusements for myself--the English family, writing, reading--but it's all nothing but a sham, it's all the same as morphine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix was on the point of entering another carriage, when an idea struck him which induced him to alter his plan.
-- Sir Francis corrected Passepartout's time, whereupon the latter made the same remark that he had done to Fix; and upon the general insisting that the watch should be regulated in each new meridian, since he was constantly going eastward, that is in the face of the sun, and therefore the days were shorter by four minutes for each degree gone over, Passepartout obstinately refused to alter his watch, which he kept at London time.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His authority, as Woestijne's alter ego, was imposing on paper but feeble in action, and it was worthless against the stubbornness which he aroused.
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：
-- Afterwards I understood that that would never come to pass, that men won't change and that nobody can alter it and that it's not worth wasting effort over it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day.
-- She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state.
-- She promised to think of it, and advised him to think of it more; but he was fully convinced, that no reflection could alter his wishes or his opinion on the subject.
-- His rank in society I would alter if I could, which is saying a great deal I assure you, Emma. You laugh at me about William Larkins; but I could quite as ill spare Robert Martin.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently he had some time ago reached that entrance to middle age at which a man's aspect naturally ceases to alter for the term of a dozen years or so; and, artificially, a woman's does likewise.
-- Ten generations failed to alter the turn of a single phrase.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taillefer felt attracted, perhaps unconsciously, by the strength of the one man, and the good looks of the other; her stolen glances and secret thoughts were divided between them; but neither of them seemed to take any notice of her, although some day a chance might alter her position, and she would be a wealthy heiress.
-- A few tears, like the last grains of incense flung upon the sacred alter fire of the hearth, fell from his eyes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had determined at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my determination.
-- I understand your feeling,' con-tinued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; 'but you are mistaken, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my histo-ry, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined.'
-- 'Being thus provided, I resolved to reside in this hovel until something should occur which might alter my deter-mination.
-- The conclusion of this speech convinced my father that my ideas were deranged, and he instantly changed the sub-ject of our conversation and endeavoured to alter the course of my thoughts.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then his heart was so touched that he kissed her, and when she opened her eyes he said: 'You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.'
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