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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One would imagine that such a match would be very welcome to Stapleton, and yet I have more than once caught a look of the strongest disap-probation in his face when Sir Henry has been paying some attention to his sister.
-- The gleam of the match which he struck shone upon his clotted fingers and upon the ghastly pool which widened slowly from the crushed skull of the victim.
-- We caught the one clear glimpse of it, and then the match flickered and went out, even as the hope had gone out of our souls.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was coming on for the fourth time, as though he were a god, Apollo shouted to him with an awful voice and said, 'Take heed, son of Tydeus, and draw off; think not to match your-self against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.'
-- You vowed that you would each of you stand against a hundred or two hundred men, and now you prove no match even for one for Hector, who will be ere long set-ting our ships in a blaze.
-- I will not marry his daughter; she may be fair as Venus, and skilful as Minerva, but I will have none of her: let another take her, who may be a good match for her and who rules a larger kingdom.
-- 'Be not afraid, proud Trojans,' said he, 'to face the son of Peleus; I could fight gods myself if the battle were one of words only, but they would be more than a match for me, if we had to use our spears.
-- But Minerva laughed and vaunted over him saying, 'Idiot, have you not learned how far stronger I am than you, but you must still match yourself against me?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came an imprecation, and a match was struck and the study was flooded with yellow light.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You think you're a match for the one, but against the other you're helpless?"
-- Then Robert Strickland struck a match and lit a cigarette.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the way, Pencroft asked him in the most natural tone, if by chance he happened to have a match or two.
-- Herbert was the first to break the silence by saying, "Mr. Spilett, you are a smoker and always have matches about you; perhaps you haven't looked well, try again, a single match will be enough!"
-- If this was a match and a single one, it was of great importance not to rub off the phosphorus.
-- "No, I can't do it," said he, "my hand trembles, the match has missed fire; I cannot, I will not!"
-- He did not hesitate, however, but struck the match directly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no need of any caution this time, and no fear of being detained by having to play out a return match with Daniel Quilp's boy.
-- I should be more than a match for him, of course, but I'm the master of the house, and the laws of hospitality must be respected. Hallo there!Hallo, hallo!'
-- If I an't a match for an old man and a young child, you an't neither, so don't throw that out against me, for the cap fits your head quite as correct as it fits mine.'
-- When does this match come off?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead, he struck a match and lighted the gas.
-- He struck a match and, lighting the gas, sat down in the dining-room without even greeting her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The match went out, and so did we, and shoved in the staple again, and the door was locked as good as ever.
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