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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My fellow-crea-tures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory.
-- He talked thus inconclusively until at last I felt my tem-per going.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus and thus, then, do we beat dogs when we are men.
-- Thus it is done.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus a literal translation of the name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be 'The Tail of the Lake.'
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- The colors of the war-paint had blended in dark confusion about his fierce countenance, and rendered his swarthy lineaments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance.
-- ' Shakespeare hile one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily pre-Wsented to the reader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the excla-mation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired of the youth who rode by her side: 'Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf?
-- Perhaps the rapidity of the changes from one of these paces to the other created an optical illusion, which might thus magnify the powers of the beast; for it is certain that Hey-ward, who possessed a true eye for the merits of a horse, was unable, with his utmost ingenuity, to decide by what sort of movement his pursuer worked his sinuous way on his foot-steps with such persevering hardihood.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these he lived successively a week at a time, thus going the rounds of the neighborhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief.
-- That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mount-ed, issued forth like a knight- errant in quest of adventures.
-- Thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and 'sugared suppositions,' he journeyed along the sides of a range of hills which look out upon some of the goodliest scenes of the mighty Hudson.
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：
-- It is not thus that the Church in its great days dealt with evidence that was unwelcome.
-- I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.
-- We continued thus for perhaps a quarter of a mile.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It can be thus easily understood that when it is lightened of any considerable weight its movement will be impetuous and sudden.
-- Might it not possibly thus reach the land?
-- Thus Jonathan Forster accordingly conceived the idea of rising in a balloon, so as to pass over the besieging lines, and in that way reach the Secessionist camp.
-- Thus five determined persons were about to abandon themselves to the mercy of the tempestuous elements!
-- The nearest point of the beach he could reach was thus fully that distance off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The story I am about to relate, and to which I shall recur at intervals, arose out of one of these rambles; and thus I have been led to speak of them by way of preface.
-- While we were thus engaged, I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one.
-- There was no reason, however, why I should refrain from seeing the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone, and as it was not improbable that if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity, I avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate, and thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were.
-- While we were sitting thus in silence, the door of the closet opened, and the child returned, her light brown hair hanging loose about her neck, and her face flushed with the haste she had made to rejoin us.
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