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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you it will be quite the thing for him to do; but I hope you will not visa the passport."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not thing I can do for her.
-- The terrible thing happened when the Board of Regents were being shown through the campus.
-- Now a pancreas is a damp and disgusting thing to find in your new hat, and when the banker did so find one, he threw down the hat and said that the students of Winnemac had gone to the devil.
-- It iss also the least-known thing in science."
-- "Now you look here!I'll be getting sore, first thing you know!You and I are roughnecks, but Madeline Fox--she's like Angus Duer, some ways.
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：
-- 'I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles,' he thought, with an odd smile.
-- 'I knew it,' he muttered in confusion, 'I thought so!That's the worst of all!Why, a stupid thing like this, the most trivial detail might spoil the whole plan.
-- 'That's a good thing anyway,' he thought to himself, as he rang the bell of the old woman's flat.
-- 'And how could such an atrocious thing come into my head?
-- I don't condemn her for it, I don't blame her, for the one thing left her is recollection of the past, and all the rest is dust and ashes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I can't always look at him- I know him without thatwhite thing on, and I am afraid of his wondering why I stare so, 22and perhaps stopping the service to inquire- and what am I to do?
-- It's a dreadful thing to gape, but I must do something.
-- One thing I particularly noticed in this delightfulhouse, was the smell of fish; which was so searching, that when Itook out my pocket-handkerchief to wipe my nose, I found it smeltexactly as if it had wrapped up a lobster.
-- Andwhenever Mrs. Gummidge was overcome in a similar mannerduring the remainder of our stay (which happened some fewtimes), he always said the same thing in extenuation of thecircumstance, and always with the tenderest commiseration.
-- Almost the first remarkable thing I observed in Miss Murdstone 52was, her being constantly haunted by a suspicion that the servantshad a man secreted somewhere on the premises.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- 'Dear Emma bears every thing so well,' said her father.
-- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Tay-lor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
-- If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encourage-ments, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.
-- Mrs. Weston ought to have found more in it, for she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet tem-per made him think every thing due to her in return for the 16 Emmagreat goodness of being in love with him; but though she had one sort of spirit, she had not the best.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such intention had been her motive in taking up the glass.
-- Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
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