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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Hans aloud, 'what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.'
-- The wolf ran with the child a little way; the shepherd and his wife screamed out; but Sultan soon overtook him, and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress.
-- Now Sultan had no- 29body he could ask to be his second but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
-- These gentlemen, having pen, ink, and paper, about them, made an exact inventory of every thing they saw; and when they had done, desired I would set them down, that they might deliver it to the em-peror.
-- He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water- mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consult-ing it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE ONE THING NEEDFUL'Now, what I want is, Facts.
-- As to a stocking, I didn't know such a thing by name.
-- Mrs. Gradgrind faintly looked at the tongs, as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think of doing.
-- 'A very bad thing for anybody, but a cursed bad thing for a girl like Louisa.
-- It was very strange to walk through the streets on a Sunday morning, and note how few of them the barbarous jangling of bells that was driving the sick and nervous mad, called away from their own quarter, from their own close rooms, from the corners of their own streets, where they lounged listlessly, gazing at all the church and chapel going, as at a thing with which they had no manner of concern.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a rare thing for me to be absent from his lectures.
-- But one thing struck his fancy, and that was a certain singular steeple situated on the Island of Amak, which is the southeast quarter of the city of Copenhagen.
-- One thing I can say, my uncle never left off speaking.
-- The last thing I saw was a face fearfully distorted with pain and sorrow; and then my eyes closed.
-- The best thing I can do is to go back and find them.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girls were doubtful, but then the thing was so much talked about, it was supposed to be so important.
-- The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so far behind women in the matter.
-- They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.
-- Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him.
-- And if after the roused intimacy of these vivid and soul-enlightened discussions the sex thing became more or less inevitable, then let it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the jailer, turning his basket upside down to beat the crumbs out, 'I have expended all the money I received; here is the note of it, and that's a thing accomplished.
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