there是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在那儿； 往那儿； [作引导词表示"存在"，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is nothing surprising in this.
-- There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs commerce surrounds it with her surf.
-- And there they stand miles of them leagues.
-- Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.
-- There is magic in it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
-- The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in 'the house' who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need.
-- The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.
-- Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with.'
-- 'I would not be so fastidious as you are,' cried Mr. Bingley, 'for a kingdom!Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty.'
-- 'Oh!She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable.
-- So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great!Not handsome enough to dance with!I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Marseilles that day there was a villainous prison.
-- There was a broad strong ledge of stone to this grating where the bottom of it was let into the masonry, three or four feet above the ground.
-- 'There is no news for me?'
-- Perhaps he glanced at the Lyons sausage, and perhaps he glanced at the veal in savoury jelly, but they were not there long, to make his mouth water; Monsieur Rigaud soon dispatched them, in spite of the president and tribunal, and proceeded to suck his fingers as clean as he could, and to wipe them on his vine leaves.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is so much to do about the play for Christmas night,' said Jo, marching up and down, with her hands behind her back, and her nose in the air.
-- There was so much to do, getting the boxes ready to go tomorrow, that I didn't come home to dinner.
-- There never was such a woman for givin' away vittles and drink, clothes and firin',' replied Hannah, who had lived with the family since Meg was born, and was considered by them all more as a friend than a servant.
-- There is nothing to eat over there, and the oldest boy came to tell me they were suffering hunger and cold.
-- And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hun-gry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
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