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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she did so, a most extraordinary thing happened.
-- For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then nothingness, no visible thing at all!
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
-- The laugh caught me suddenly like a thing from without.
-- You know the kind of man, calls the thing the 'Ipecacuanha,' of all silly, infer-nal names; though when there's much of a sea without any wind, she certainly acts according.'
-- It may seem a little thing to you, perhaps, but it came like a sudden blow to me.
-- The thing came to me as stark inhumanity.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world the wolf checked in mid-spring.
-- 'Ay, roar well,' said Bagheera, under his whiskers, 'for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.'
-- Shere Khan was always crossing his path in the jungle, for as Akela grew older and feebler the lame tiger had come to be great friends with the younger wolves of the Pack, who followed him for scraps, a thing Akela would never have al-lowed if he had dared to push his authority to the proper bounds.
-- 'This thing will die if I do not give it things to eat"; and he dropped twigs and dried bark on the red stuff.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If enemies have reached the portage at all, a thing by no means probable, as our scouts are abroad, they will surely be found skirting the column, where scalps abound the most.
-- 'The holy Bible is not more true, and that is the truest thing in nature.
-- They call this up-stream current the tide, which is a thing soon explained, and clear enough.
-- Though, if I felt confident of his treachery ' 'Tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of an Iro-quois,' said the scout, throwing his rifle forward, by a sort of instinctive movement.
-- 'You are at the foot of Glenn's,' returned the other, speak-ing aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; 'and the next thing is to make a steady land-ing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; but one thing can never be doubtful, and that is that he had genius.
-- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
-- There was another thing I liked in Mrs. Strickland.
-- I was young enough for them not to feel shy, and they chattered merrily about one thing and another.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though Neb had been able to make his way into Richmond, it was quite another thing to get out again, for the Northern prisoners were very strictly watched.
-- "Well, my boy," said he to Herbert, "if I don't know the name of these trees, at any rate I reckon that we may call them 'burning wood,' and just now that's the chief thing we want."
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