thing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 物， 东西； 事， 事情； 所有物； 局面， 情况，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what did Scrooge care!It was the very thing he liked.
-- growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a mer- Sons and Loversry Christmas.
-- 'Because,' said Scrooge, 'a little thing affects them.
-- But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.
-- For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in an-other, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: be-ing now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the latter, when every posting-house and ale-house could produce somebody in 'the Captain's' pay, ranging from the landlord to the low-est stable non-descript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards.
-- 'Only one thing more,' said Mr. Lorry, laying stress upon it as a wholesome means of enforcing her attention: 'he has been found under another name; his own, long forgotten or long concealed.
-- said Mr. Cruncher, who all this time had been putting on his clothes, 'if I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing 77and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with!Young Jerry, dress yourself, my boy, and while I clean my boots keep a eye upon your mother now and then, and if you see any signs of more flopping, give me a call.
-- 'It's the wisest thing to expect, and the likeliest.
-- 'Carton,' said his friend, squaring himself at him with a bullying air, as if the fire-grate had been the furnace in which sustained endeavour was forged, and the one delicate thing to be done for the old Sydney Carton of old Shrews-bury School was to shoulder him into it, 'your way is, and always was, a lame way.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That would be the worst thing that could happen Oh!the cloth is charming,' said he, aloud.
-- It was the shoes that caused the metamorphosis by means of which, unknown to himself, he took upon him the thoughts and feelings of the officer; but, as we have just seen, he felt himself in his new situation much less contented, and now preferred the very thing which but some minutes before he had rejected.
-- I fancied that I was the lieutenant over there: and yet the thing was not very much to my taste after all.
-- The seemingly dead body of the watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital, where it was brought into the general viewing-room: and the first thing that was done here was naturally to pull off the galoshes when the spirit, that was merely gone out on adventures, must have returned with the quickness of lightning to its earthly tenement.
-- He had on the Shoes; for as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them; and besides it was so very dirty out-of-doors, they were just the thing for him, he thought.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault--all my fault, though I'm not to blame.
-- The most unpleasant thing of all was that his pecuniary interests should in this way enter into the question of his reconciliation with his wife.
-- The most horrible thing is," she began, but did not finish her thought, because Matrona Philimonovna put her head in at the door.
-- "One thing I do understand," he added; "it's a lesson in humility.
-- The first thing to do to set his heart at rest was to accomplish what he had come to Moscow for.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
-- "A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager," replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly.
-- When the folly as well as the uselessness of the adventure was pointed out to him, he contented himself with replying, "If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman."
-- The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it's no light task, I admit, but a real art."
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