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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate, there was only one thing to be done to await the return of Neb and the reporter; but they must give up the feast of hard eggs which they had meant to prepare, and a meal of raw flesh was not an agreeable prospect either for themselves or for the others.
-- Notwithstanding, the thing was well worth while trying, and a part of Pencroft's large checked handkerchief was soon reduced to the state of a half-burnt rag.
-- "It seems to me it would be a good thing to give a name to this island, as well as to, the capes, promontories, and watercourses, which we can see.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
-- He began by remarking that soda-water, though a good thing in the abstract, was apt to lie cold upon the stomach unless qualified with ginger, or a small infusion of brandy, which latter article he held to be preferable in all cases, saving for the one consideration of expense.
-- 'Inspired by this idea and the sentiments it awakened, sir, and feeling as a mutual friend that badgering, baiting, and bullying, was not the sort of thing calculated to expand the souls and promote the social harmony of the contending parties, I took upon myself to suggest a course which is the course to be adopted to the present occasion.
-- 'Oh!It's a sensible and proper thing indeed, what Mrs George has said!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The joy of spring felt by animals and men did not penetrate the office of the county jail, but the one thing of supreme importance there was a document received the previous evening, with title, number and seal, which ordered the bringing into court for trial, this 28th day of April, at nine o'clock in the morning, three prisoners--two women and one man.
-- It seemed to Nekhludoff, when he looked at her erect figure in the white dress with little folds at the waist, and by the expression of her happy face, that the very thing that filled his soul with song, also filled hers.
-- "Well, well!He went on his spree just like a Siberian!Seems to have known a good thing when he saw it.
-- She desired but one thing now--a cigarette.
-- Maslova was overjoyed by the receipt of the money, for it could give her the one thing she wished for now.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?"
-- The MachineThe thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made.
-- The thing was generally complete, but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings, and I took one up for a better look at it.
-- He said he had seen a similar thing at T脙录bingen, and laid considerable stress on the blowing-out of the candle.
-- I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then 芒聙娄 I've lived eight days 芒聙娄 such days as no human being ever lived before!I'm nearly worn out, but I shan't sleep till I've told this thing over to you.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass houseOne thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
-- The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was lying quite still and trying to purr no doubt feeling that it was all meant for its good.
-- And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly.
-- The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind.
-- The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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