match是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 火柴； 比赛， 竞赛； 对手， 配偶v. 匹配， 相称，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if they had been twice as many ah, four times old Fezziwig would have been a match for them, and so would Mrs Fezziwig.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lady in question, whose rooted conviction that she was more than a match for any foreigner, was not to be shak-en by distress and, danger, appeared with folded arms, and observed in English to The Vengeance, whom her eyes first encountered, 'Well, I am sure, Boldface!I hope YOU are pretty well!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 188 Andersen's Fairy TalesTHE LITTLE MATCH GIRL ost terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly Mquite dark, and evening the last evening of the year.
-- Oh!a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it.
-- The little girl had already stretched out her feet to warm them too; but the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she had only the remains of the burnt-out match in her hand.
-- And what was still more capital to behold was, the goose hopped down from the dish, reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl; when the match went out and nothing but the thick, cold, damp wall was left behind.
-- The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when the match went out.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin's conviction that it could not be was founded on the idea that in the eyes of her family he was a disadvantageous and worthless match for the charming Kitty, and that Kitty herself could not love him.
-- The princess for her part, going round the question in the manner peculiar to women, maintained that Kitty was too young, that Levin had done nothing to prove that he had serious intentions, that Kitty felt no great attraction to him, and other side issues; but she did not state the principal point, which was that she looked for a better match for her daughter, and that Levin was not to her liking, and she did not understand him.
-- She was fond of Kitty, and her affection for her showed itself, as the affection of married women for girls always does, in the desire to make a match for Kitty after her own ideal of married happiness; she wanted her to marry Vronsky.
-- She knew him, and knew that he would be a good match for her young lady, and was very keen to see the matter settled.
-- He" (HE meant Sergey Ivanovitch) "might at any time have been a match for anyone in Russia; now, of course, he's not quite a young man, still I know ever so many girls would be glad to marry him even now.... She's a very nice girl, but he might..." "Oh, no, mamma, do understand why, for him and for her too, nothing better could be imagined.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On evenings when the Doc was away, Martin would acquire prestige among the trembling Gang by leading them into the unutterable darkness and scratching a sulfur match on the skeleton's jaw.
-- They had no proof that Martin was necessarily a bad match for Ory.
-- When he tried to match himself with the experts of the clinic or with their professional friends, he was even more uncomfortable than he had been under the disconcerting scorn of Dr. Hesselink of Groningen.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is already of the rank of a counsellor, Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, and is distantly related to Marfa Petrovna, who has been very active in bringing the match about.
-- Raskolnikov rushed at him with his fists, without reflecting that the stout gentleman was a match for two men like himself.
-- And is he a match for you?
-- He is no match for Avdotya Romanovna.
-- I fancied from all I had heard of you that you would be very glad if the match could be broken off without the sacrifice of worldly advantages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well I recollect our sitting there, talking in whispers; or theirtalking, and my respectfully listening, I ought rather to say; themoonlight falling a little way into the room, through the window,painting a pale window on the floor, and the greater part of us inshadow, except when Steerforth dipped a match into aphosphorus-box, when he wanted to look for anything on theboard, and shed a blue glare over us that was gone directly!Acertain mysterious feeling, consequent on the darkness, the secrecyof the revel, and the whisper in which everything was said, stealsover me again, and I listen to all they tell me with a vague feelingof solemnity and awe, which makes me glad that they are all sonear, and frightens me (though I feign to laugh) when Traddlespretends to see a ghost in the corner.
-- On beingasked by a mild boy (not me) how he would proceed if he didbegin to see him do it, he dipped a match into his phosphorus-boxon purpose to shed a glare over his reply, and said he wouldcommence by knocking him down with a blow on the foreheadfrom the seven-and-sixpenny ink-bottle that was always on themantelpiece.
-- 'Itwould be a very good match for you; wouldn't it?'
-- How often have I seen him,intent upon a match at marbles or peg-top, looking on with a faceof unutterable interest, and hardly breathing at the critical times!
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