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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not in the least alter the actual state of the case; so not a word was said, and after answering all Miss Grant's questions, Lady Helena began to interrogate in her turn, asking her about her past life and her present circumstances.
-- Well now, the man at the helm has only to give a turn at the wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as to Concepcion; and since it is only a pleasure trip that you are—"His proposal was met by such grave, disapproving shakes of the head, that he stopped short before the sentence was completed; and Lady Helena said:"Monsieur Paganel, if we were only on a pleasure trip, I should reply, ‘Let us all go to India together,' and I am sure Lord Glenarvan would not object; but the DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination."
-- "But, I say," said the Major, after a minute, "this doesn't alter the fact that we have no interpreter."
-- But Mangles felt there was no alternative, and all he could do was to keep the crew ready to alter the sail at any moment, and stay in the shrouds himself watching the tempest.
-- However, as Glenarvan justly remarked, this did not alter the fact of Captain Grant's captivity in the least degree, though there was no reason now for prosecuting the search for him along the 37th parallel, more than any other.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They have planted roses all round her grave, and every year they look alter the flowers and make Marie's resting-place as beautiful as they can.
-- Besides that, I have made myself a promise not to alter a single word of what I write in this paper, even though I find that I am contra-dicting myself every five lines.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ' He hesitated, and seemed to alter his mind about what was on his lips.
-- You begin to see that it is a possible thing to transplant tissue from one part of an animal to another, or from one animal to another; to alter its chemical reac-tions and methods of growth; to modify the articulations of its limbs; and, indeed, to change it in its most intimate structure.
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：
-- 'A Mingo is a Mingo, and God having made him so, nei-ther the Mohawks nor any other tribe can alter him,' he said, when he had regained his former position.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
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：
-- But the emergence doesn't alter the mass.
-- They grumble a lot, but they're not go-ing to alter anything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not keep it out of my mind that if I was Mrs Gowan (what a change that would be, and how I must alter to become like her!)
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My castle is very different from what I planned, but I would not alter it, though, like Jo, I don't relinquish all my artistic hopes, or confine myself to helping others fulfill their dreams of beauty.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
-- "Oh, my Captain!my Captain!noble soul!grand old heart, after all!why should any one give chase to that hated fish!Away with me!let us fly these deadly waters!let us home!Wife and child, too, are Starbuck's wife and child of his brotherly, sisterly, play-fellow youth; even as thine, sir, are the wife and child of thy loving, longing, paternal old age!Away!let us away! this instant let me alter the course!How cheerily, how hilariously, O my Captain, would we bowl on our way to see old Nantucket again!I think, sir, they have some such mild blue days, even as this, in Nantucket."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You can say nothing to alter my resolution.
-- 'Not to press me to alter my right determination,' replied Rose, with a melancholy smile; 'it will be useless.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But people themselves alter so much, that there is some-thing new to be observed in them for ever.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without considering that it was not in her mother's plan to keep any horse, that if she were to alter her resolution in favour of this gift, she must buy another for the servant, and keep a servant to ride it, and after all, build a stable to receive them, she had accepted the present without hesitation, and told her sister of it in raptures.
-- Elinor was grateful for the attention, but it could not alter her design; and their mother's concurrence being readily gained, every thing relative to their return was arranged as far as it could be; and Marianne found some relief in drawing up a statement of the hours that were yet to divide her from Barton.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day, the bar being closed, he brooded alone, shut out from home, from the excitement of his resort, from Carrie, and without the ability to alter his condition one iota.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Tom he showed him how unregular it would be, and set down and told him all about our plans, and how we could alter them in a minute any time there was an alarm; and not to be the least afraid, because we would see he got away, SURE.
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