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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus this entire set of books form a united series upon which Verne worked intermittently during ten years.
-- Thus they cross in turn through South America, Australia and New Zealand, besides visiting minor islands.
-- As he was thus watching and listening, Thaouka gave a low neigh, and stretched his nostrils toward the entrance of the RAMADA.
-- His Lordship only spoke thus to reassure the child, for a secret terror filled him at the sight of this legion of bloodthirsty animals let loose on them at midnight.
-- Glenarvan and his companions being thus delivered from the voracious SAURIANS, stationed themselves on the branches windward of the conflagration, while the OMBU sailed along like a blazing fire-ship through the dark night, the flames spreading themselves round like sails before the breath of the hurricane.
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：
-- Thus encouraged, our scientific friend drew his papers from his pocket, and presented the whole case as he had done upon the morning before.
-- Thus I had made certain of the hound, and had guessed at the criminal before ever we went to the west country.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fool the prince might be, still, the gen-eral's servant felt that it was not correct for him to continue to converse thus with a visitor, in spite of the fact that the prince pleased him somehow.
-- I may say I find refreshment in this little coterie, in thus meeting my old acquaintances and subordinates, who worship me still, in spite of all.
-- She had plenty of pride, in spite of the fact that in thus acting she was seeking inti-macy with people who had practically shown her brother the door.
-- As soon as the ice was thus broken, the general lost no time in showing that he, too, took the greatest interest in the subject.
-- So at the risk of missing General Epanchin altogether, and thus postponing his visit to Pavlofsk for a day, at least, the prince decided to go and look for the house he desired to find.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer.
-- Thus we may per-haps appease him.'
-- Then Agamemnon said, 'Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me.
-- I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.'
-- While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scab-bard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When asked what an experimental investigator was, she would say with a touch of superiority that most educated people knew such things as that, and would thus explain that he "discovered things."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Jessica of her mother another day, thus revealing something that Hurstwood had heard nothing about.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking!I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage, Is sicklied o'er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus having settled their accounts, they shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.
-- Thus amusing himself with fancies, he came to the field.
-- Thus adorned, he went out.
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