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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came across and looked round the hut the very first thing to see if the slides were closed.
-- But there is such a thing as being too generous in expressing a judgment impulsively, and Oak added with a more appreciative sense of all the circumstances "Well, I am not quite certain it was no harm."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's nearly ten o'clock, and you let me sleep like a dormouse!Such a thing has never happened before."
-- There is no need to tack a tale together; the thing is self- evident.
-- The little thing threw herself at her father's feet and spoke up bravely; she said that she only persevered in her visits for her mother's sake; that she would obey him without a murmur, but that she begged him to read her poor dead mother's farewell letter.
-- "A Goriorama," said the art student, "because you couldn't see a thing in it."
-- "Never mind him," said the artist; "he does that sort of thing to delude us into thinking that he was a vermicelli maker."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With an anxiety that al-most amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
-- I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
-- A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a ser-vant in France and England.
-- How altered every thing might be during that time!One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive.
-- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making 82 Frankensteinit appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she fussesaround so much, trying to do the right thing and make you feel at home, that she always manages to say and do justexactly the wrong thing.
-- "You can always count on her to do the right thing and notembarrass you in front of folks."
-- An' nex' thing, huccome Ah din' bringy'all home ternight so she could lay you out An' den she'll light on me lak a duck on a June bug, an' fust thing Ahknow Ah'll be ter blame fer it all.
-- Miss what's-her-name the sweet little thing who was here last year, youknow, Ashley's cousin oh, yes, Miss Melanie Hamilton, that's the name she and her brother Charles have alreadycome from Atlanta and " "Oh, so she did come?"
-- "She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
-- Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.
-- I told him I must go, but he took no notice, so I thought the best thing I could do was to slip off.
-- We went into the house by a side door, the great front entrance had two chains across it outside,--and the first thing I noticed was, that the passages were all dark, and that she had left a candle burning there.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him.
-- Then thought he to himself, 'It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this shabby cage'; so he opened the door and took hold of it and put it into the golden cage.
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