topic是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 话题， 主题， 题目，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：
-- A considerable crowd visited her every day, and the DUNCAN was the one topic of interest and conversation, to the great vexation of the different captains in the port, among others of Captain Burton, in command of the SCOTIA, a magnificent steamer lying close beside her, and bound for Calcutta.
-- Naturally enough, the main topic of conversation was the weather.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Evidently he was sensitive on the topic of operations and bandages.
-- It was inevitable that a person of so remarkable an appearance and bearing should form a frequent topic in such a village as Iping.
-- Thence his mind wandered back again to a topic that had taken a curiously firm hold of his imagination.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.
-- He had evidently been a very ordinary medical student, and drifted incontinently to the topic of the music halls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After an awkward pause, she thrust her head out of the window again, and had another conference with the driver upon some point on which they did not seem to agree quite so readily as on their former topic of discussion; but they concluded at last, and she addressed the grandfather again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shivered as though the topic was unendurable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Therefore, madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'I took the liberty' (he laid an emphasis on the phrase and repeated it, as though he stipulated, with urbane firmness, that he must not be contradicted again), 'I took the liberty of requesting this interview, in order that I might mention the topic to you, and inquire how you would advise me?'
-- The topic was so disagreeable to him, and so put his usual liveliness to the rout, that Mrs Plornish forbore to press him further: the rather as the tea had been drawing for some time on the hob.
-- 'A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doyce,' he finished by saying, with all the honest feeling the topic roused in him.
-- This abandonment of the second topic threw him on the third.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agree-able manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor avoided it upon principle, as tending to fix still more upon her thoughts, by the too warm, too positive assurances of Marianne, that belief of Edward's continued affection for herself which she rather wished to do away; and Marianne's courage soon failed her, in trying to converse upon a topic which always left her more dissatisfied with herself than ever, by the comparison it necessarily produced between Elinor's conduct and her own.
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