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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough.
-- It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch.
-- Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head a ghastly thing enough and crammed it down into the bag.
-- Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.
-- Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound!what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet!What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly!How billow-like and boisterously grand!We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
-- Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
-- This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
-- said the undertaker: taking Mr. Bumble by the gilt-edged lappel of his official coat; 'that's just the very thing I wanted to speak to you about.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a fine thing for our girls!'
-- She was very equal, therefore, to address Mr. Bingley on the subject of the ball, and abruptly reminded him of his prom-ise; adding, that it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
-- I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it.'
-- It was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger daugh-ters, as Jane's marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of other rich men; and lastly, it was so pleasant at her time of life to be able to consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that she might not be obliged to go into company more than she liked.
-- The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing, that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him further, and he continued: 'My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish; secondly, that I am convinced that it will add very great-ly to my happiness; and thirdly which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earlier, that it is the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honour of calling patroness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Harriet we changed into Hattey, and then into Tatty, because, as practical people, we thought even a playful name might be a new thing to her, and might have a softening and affectionate kind of effect, don't you see?
-- It is a very good thing for you, and very welcome under the circumstances to me.
-- Why, we ain't had such a thing happen here, my dear, not for I couldn't name the time when.
-- He received them in his poor room (he disliked an introduction in the mere yard, as informal a thing that might happen to anybody), with a kind of bowed-down beneficence.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Laurence boy's grandfather!What in the world put such a thing into his head?
-- I'll lift my eyebrows if any thing is wrong, and nod if you are all right.
-- It was not a wise thing to do, but I kept on worrying till an old man came in with an order for some clothes.
-- gasped Beth, holding onto Jo and feeling as if she should tumble down, it was such an overwhelming thing altogether.
-- 'Well, I wish I may die if it ain't the queerest thing I ever see!The pianny has turned her head!She'd never have gone in her right mind,' cried Hannah, staring after her, while the girls were rendered quite speechless by the miracle.
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