thus是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 如此； 像这样； 于是； 因此，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：
-- Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.
-- When everybody had retired but the two pren-tices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds; which were under a counter in the back-shop.
-- It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.
-- Say it is thus with what you show me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
-- Thus 45engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand, Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but coughed just one grain of cough.
-- Thus it had come to pass, that Tellson's was the trium-phant perfection of inconvenience.
-- Having thus given his parent God speed, young Jerry seated himself on the stool, entered on his reversionary interest in the straw his father had been chewing, and cogi-tated.
-- Allowing for my learned friend's appearance being care-less and slovenly if not debauched, they were sufficiently like each other to surprise, not only the witness, but everybody present, when they were thus brought into comparison.
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：
-- Thus caparisoned the good man walked out of the well-lighted rooms into East Street.
-- * * As on the continent, in all law and police practices nothing is verbal, but any circumstance, however trifling, is reduced to writing, the labor, as well as the number of pa-pers that thus accumulate, is enormous.
-- But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the read-er.
-- And she took the Galoshes from his feet; his sleep of death was ended; and he who had been thus called back again to life arose from his dread couch in all the vigor of youth.
-- 'That is still better than to cross the sea!What a longing do I suffer!Were Christmas but come!I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!Oh!were I but already on the cart!Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only thing that interested him now was the question of in what way he could best, with most propriety and comfort for himself, and thus with most justice, extricate himself from the mud with which she had spattered him in her fall, and then proceed along his path of active, honorable, and useful existence.
-- Thus people talked incessantly of Alexey Alexandrovitch, finding fault with him and laughing at him, while he, blocking up the way of the member of the Imperial Council he had captured, was explaining to him point by point his new financial project, never interrupting his discourse for an instant for fear he should escape.
-- said Anna, and having thus paid the dues of civility to her domestic circle, she turned to her own friends.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This methodical record thus contained an account of everything needed, and Mr. Fogg always knew whether he was behind-hand or in advance of his time.
-- It might be thought that, in his anxiety, he would be constantly watching the changes of the wind, the disorderly raging of the billows every chance, in short, which might force the Mongolia to slacken her speed, and thus interrupt his journey.
-- It would be difficult to describe the disappointment of the party, thus interrupted in their work.
-- Phileas Fogg would thus be able to arrive in time to take the steamer which left Calcutta the next day, October 25th, at noon, for Hong Kong.
-- The sea rolled heavily, and the wind at intervals rose almost to a storm, but happily blew from the south-west, and thus aided the steamer's progress.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus they jabbered, while Angus Duer watched them in a superior silence that made Martin nervous.
-- Thus by association with the initial letters they mastered the twelve cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, and the rest.
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