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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seated on the poop, Ned Land and I were chatting of one thing and another as we looked at this mysterious sea, whose great depths had up to this time been inaccessible to the eye of man.
-- It was the voice of Ned Land shouting:"Look out there!The very thing we are looking for on our weather beam!"
-- Suddenly, just as on the day before, Ned Land's voice was heard:"The thing itself on the port quarter!"
-- It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one during its sleep.
-- Just then a bubbling began at the back of this strange thing (which was evidently propelled by a screw), and it began to move.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was such a thing as pure accident, and the consequences did not attach to one, even though one had killed one's brother in such wise.
-- Or is this not true, is there no such thing as pure accident?
-- He did not believe that there was any such thing as accident.
-- It's the hardest thing in the world to act spontaneously on one's impulses and it's the only really gentlemanly thing to do provided you're fit to do it."
-- But I should like them to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor thing discovered her loss directly she screamed out 'Oh, he's dead, Heathcliff!he's dead!'
-- CHAPTER 6 MR. HINDLEY came home to the funeral; and a thing that amazed us, and set the neighbours gossiping right and left he brought a wife with him.
-- But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at.
-- He seized a tureen of hot apple sauce (the first thing that came under his gripe) and dashed it full against the speaker's face and neck; who instantly commenced a lament that brought Isabella and Catherine hurrying to the place.
-- The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the great thing for boys is discipline, sonny discipline.
-- "I have drawn blood enough to keep him quiet awhile; he should lie for a week where he is that is the best thing for him and you; but another stroke would settle him."
-- It is a curious thing to understand, for I had certainly never liked the man, though of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon as I saw that he was dead, I burst into a flood of tears.
-- "In fact, sir, I believe I have the thing in my breast pocket; and to tell you the truth, I should like to get it put in safety."
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