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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She busied herself immediately in preparing supper, and while she was thus engaged I remarked that the old man took an opportunity of observing me more closely than he had done yet.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus five children died.
-- Thus Maslova lived for seven years.
-- The steward wrote that the land could thus best be exploited.
-- That the entire day and evening preceding his death deceased passed in the company of a girl named Lubka (Katherine Maslova) in the Hotel Mauritania, whither said Maslova came at the request of Smelkoff for money; that she obtained the money from Smelkoff's trunk, first unlocking it with a key intrusted to her by Smelkoff; that the money was thus taken in the presence of two servants of the said hotel--Euphemia Bochkova and Simon Kartinkin; that at the opening of said trunk by the said Maslova in the presence of the aforementioned Bochkova and Kartinkin, there were rolls of hundred ruble bills.
-- Thus he lived happily the first month under the roof of his aunts' dwelling, paying no attention to the half-servant, half-ward, the black-eyed, nimble-footed Katiousha.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus loaded, our progress was slower than I had anticipated, and besides Weena was tired.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a grip that almost made me cry out, and moving his legs like so much dead weight.
-- There was a slight bend in the coast, and I steered so as to put it between us; even before we landed we had thus lost sight of the gigs.
-- I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a slice of the interior of the cabin.
-- While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm moment, when the ship was still, Israel Hands turned partly round and with a low moan writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first.
-- While I was thus turning the business over in my mind, I had not been idle with my body.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced; which is just within the bounds of possibility."
-- Thus the Abraham Lincoln wanted for no means of destruction; and, what was better still she had on board Ned Land, the prince of harpooners.
-- Hence perfect equilibrium between the interior and exterior pressure, which thus neutralise each other, and which allows you to bear it without inconvenience.
-- While I watched this phenomenon, two jets of steam and water were ejected from its vents, and rose to the height of 120 feet; thus I ascertained its way of breathing.
-- THE MAN OF THE SEASIt was the commander of the vessel who thus spoke.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Ursula, too eagerly, throwing aside her sewing and leaping up, as if to escape something, thus betraying the tension of the situation and causing a friction of dislike to go over Gudrun's nerves.
-- He was commissioned to open the sluice that let out the water from the lake, which was pierced at one end, near the high-road, thus serving as a reservoir to supply with water the distant mines, in case of necessity.
-- And Gudrun, sitting immediately behind him, felt a sort of ironic pleasure in thus exposing him.
-- He was willing to be sealed thus in the underworld, like a soul damned but living forever in damnation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was sick exceedingly, and dizzy, and faint; and thus compelled perforce to accept lodgings under his roof.
-- Scarcely were these words uttered when I recollected the association of Heathcliff's with Catherine's name in the book, which had completely slipped from my memory, till thus awakened.
-- I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wond ered often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy; who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by any sign of gratitude.
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