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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The slow match we calculated to burn for about ten minutes, more or less, before it reached the chamber in which the great body of powder was confined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the match came off, some devil of a fellow was bought over, Sir, Dog was made drunk, Dog's master was cleaned out.'
-- That she then went upstairs with her shoes in her hand, partly to be near the clever ones as a match for most ghosts, and partly to hear what they were talking about.
-- When he found it, it was damp, or otherwise out of order; and match after match that he struck into it lighted sufficiently to throw a dull glare about his groping face, and to sprinkle his hands with pale little spots of fire, but not sufficiently to light the candle.
-- But in the first capacity, my love, she may find people who can match her.'
-- Don't you see that I may have become a rather desirable match for a noddle?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, I wouldn't, for the smart caps won't match the plain gowns without any trimming on them.
-- It's your duty to make a rich match and it ought to be impressed upon you.'
-- Everything was done at last, even to Amy's arranging dif-ferent colored soaps to match the different colored rooms, and Beth's setting the table for the first meal.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.
-- Oh, hard!that to fire others, the match itself must needs be wasting!What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!They think me mad Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened!That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and Aye!I lost this leg.
-- Now would all the waves were women, then I'd go drown, and chassee with them evermore!There's naught so sweet on earth heaven may not match it! as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance, when the over-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.
-- He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way! there they are!"
-- So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth was the least dear to her of all her children; and though the man and the match were quite good enough for HER, the worth of each was eclipsed by Mr. Bingley and Netherfield.
-- Mr. Collins's present circumstances made it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom they could give little for-tune; and his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair.
-- In the first place, she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter; secondly, she was very sure that Mr. Collins had been taken in; thirdly, she trusted that they would never be happy to-gether; and fourthly, that the match might be broken off.
-- The very mention of anything concerning the match threw her into an agony of ill-humour, and wherever she went she was sure of hearing it talked of.
-- 'It seems likely to have been a desirable match for Jane,' said she.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But mama did not think the match good enough for me, otherwise Sir John would have mentioned it to the Colonel, and we should have been married immediately."
-- It will be all to one a better match for your sister.
-- THESE assured him that his exertion had produced an increase of good-will towards himself, and THESE gave Elinor hopes of its being farther augmented hereafter; but Mrs. Jennings, who knew nothing of all this, who knew only that the Colonel continued as grave as ever, and that she could neither prevail on him to make the offer himself, nor commission her to make it for him, began, at the end of two days, to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas, and by the end of a week that it would not be a match at all.
-- It is a match that must give universal satisfaction.
-- Mrs. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a year, if the match takes place.
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