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：
-- Yet a red natur' is not likely to alter with every shift of policy; so that the love atwixt a Mohican and a Mingo is much like the regard between a white man and a sarpent.'
-- He waved his hand, in sign of his dislike to all remonstrance, and then, in more tempered language, he continued: 'You have the means of disguise; change me; paint me, too, if you will; in short, alter me to anything a fool.'
-- It's as common for a conjurer to alter his paint as for a buck in the settlements to change his finery.'
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：
-- Nothing that you can say will make me alter it."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They therefore followed the bank of the Mercy, traversed Prospect Heights, and alter a walk of five miles or more they reached a glade, situated two hundred feet from Lake Grant.
-- In fact, the moment when this shadow would reach its minimum of length would be exactly twelve o'clock, and it would be enough to watch the extremity of the shadow, so as to ascertain the instant when, alter having successively diminished, it began to lengthen.
-- Then, with the pickaxe and spade, the windows and doors were properly shaped, the jagged edges were smoothed off, and a few days alter the beginning of the work, Granite House was abundantly lighted by the rising sun, whose rays penetrated into its most secret recesses.
-- Some think that it will arise from the falling of the temperature, which the sun will experience alter millions of years; others, from the gradual extinction of the fires in the interior of our globe, which have a greater influence on it than is generally supposed.
-- "Five bushels, captain," said Pencroft, alter having scrupulously measured his treasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am very happy still, I ought to feel happier perhaps than I do, but you cannot think how it grieves me sometimes to see him alter so.'
-- 'He'll alter again, Nelly,' said Mrs Quilp, 'and be what he was before.'
-- You're her brother after all; as you told him the last time you met, he can't alter that.'
-- Mr Slum then withdrew to alter the acrostic, after taking a most affectionate leave of his patroness, and promising to return, as soon as he possibly could, with a fair copy for the printer.
-- As she was too poor to have any fear of them, she did not alter her course (which, indeed, she could not have done without going a long way round), but quickened her pace a little, and kept straight on.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when she saw also that her outcry, too, was taken as something natural and anticipated, and which could not alter the case, she began to weep.
-- It was Nekhludoff's intention to alter his manner of living--discharge the servants, let the house and take rooms in a hotel.
-- "It isn't worth while to alter my mode of life while Maslova's affair is unsettled," he thought.
-- If you alter your decision, let me know."
-- All his efforts to change her mode of life could not alter her confidence, supported by all her relatives and acquaintances, that it was quite proper.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived.
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：
-- "But," said Ursula sadly, "that doesn't alter the fact that love is the greatest, does it?
-- What they do doesn't alter the truth of what they say, does it?"
-- We can't really alter them, can we?"
-- "It doesn't matter whether you choose or not," he replied, "that doesn't alter the fact that you are ready to fall down and kiss the feet of that little insect.
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