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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Get the filthy thing washed then, and bring it to the cabin."
-- "But it is a lucky thing the shark swallowed them, I must say," added Glenarvan, "for the bottle would have sunk to the bottom before long with such a cork as this."
-- Certainly, if any thing could have surprised him, this RENCONTRE would, for he had never seen the stranger in his life before.
-- Every thing about this group has been said and written already.
-- Instead of reading the document seront prisonniers, read sont prisonniers, and the whole thing is clear."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville, on which, as it turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still scream-ing, across the moor.
-- 'You mean that the thing is supernatural?'
-- The thing takes shape, Watson.
-- 'Why, yes,' said he, 'and the strange thing is, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, that if my friend here had not proposed coming round to you this morning I should have come on my own account.
-- 'It seems a singularly useless thing to steal,' said Sherlock Holmes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was a month or two with Lihachof after his father died, your excellency, and while he was knocking about he's in the debtor's prison now I was with him, and he couldn't do a thing without Lebedeff; and I got to know Nastasia Philipovna and several people at that time.'
-- They put a man in-side a frame and a sort of broad knife falls by machinery -they call the thing a guillotine-it falls with fearful force and weight-the head springs off so quickly that you can't wink your eye in between.
-- 'No, it's not a thing for women.'
-- 'Well, at all events it is a good thing that there's no pain when the poor fellow's head flies off,' he remarked.
-- No, no!it is an abuse, a shame, it is unnecessary why should such a thing exist?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people were sorry for him, yet they laughed heartily, and one would turn to his neighbour say-ing, 'Ulysses has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow's mouth from prating further.
-- I am quick to turn my leath-ern shield either to right or left, for this I deem the main thing in battle.
-- Him do I hate even as the gates of hell who says one thing while he hides another in his heart; therefore I will say what I mean.
-- The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thunder-ing down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further even so eas-ily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely ser-ried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground; thereon he shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset.'
-- Fighting is a thing of which men soon surfeit, and when Jove, who is war's steward, weighs the up-shot, it may well prove that the straw which our sickles have reaped is far heavier than the grain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain-worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers.
-- Queer thing to see an empty sleeve come at you like that!And then " "Well?"
-- One thing kept Mr. Bunting's courage; the persuasion that this burglar was a resident in the village.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No schools, no teachers, no books!In that blessed place there is no such thing as study.
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