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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Recalled by his request,preferred in quite another tone of voice, I did the honours of theshaving-pot; but I did them with an unsteadiness of hand, asudden sense of being no match for him, and a perplexedsuspicious anxiety as to what he might be going to say next, whichI felt could not escape his observation.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- 'And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me,' said Emma, 'and a very considerable one that I made the match myself.
-- I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.'
-- My only scruple in advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him.
-- The advantage of the match I felt to be all on her side; and had not the smallest doubt (nor have I now) that there would be a general cry-out 74 Emmaupon her extreme good luck.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I can't match you, I know, in mapping out my mind upon my tongue.
-- because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me!Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o' your takings."
-- He struck a light, and held the match to the ground.
-- The rain had been heavier here, and all foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water, which reflected the flame of the match like eyes.
-- "What does this mean? though I guess," said Gabriel, looking up at Coggan as he moved the match over the ground about the turning.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And if you should ever need some one who would gladly set a match to a train for you----" "Well?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her iron-gray hair was eked out by a curled falsefringe that was proudly brown and disdained to match the rest of her hair.
-- I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet.
-- A match flared, he leanedback against a post and, clasping his hands about his knees, smoked a while in silence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'd be a match for all noodles and all rogues," returned my sister, beginning to work herself into a mighty rage.
-- "And I couldn't be a match for the noodles, without being a match for your master, who's the dunder-headed king of the noodles.
-- And I couldn't be a match for the rogues, without being a match for you, who are the blackest-looking and the worst rogue between this and France.
-- The murdered woman,--more a match for the man, certainly, in point of years--was found dead in a barn near Hounslow Heath.
-- I strained my sight upon the sparks that fell among the tinder, and upon which he breathed and breathed, match in hand, but I could only see his lips, and the blue point of the match; even those but fitfully.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding everything still, he marched into the kitchen, and groped about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fi-ery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.
-- 356 Grimms' Fairy Tales CAT-SKIN here was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest Tgold, and was so beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face of the earth.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- He made me observe, 'that among the Houyhnhnms, the white, the sorrel, and the iron-gray, were not so exactly shaped as the bay, the dapple-gray, and the black; nor born with equal talents of mind, or a capacity to improve them; and therefore continued always in the condition of servants, without ever aspiring to match out of their own race, which in that country would be reckoned monstrous and unnatu-ral.'
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