not是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 不， 不是， 不会； 没有，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a slender boy, not very tall; his hair and restless eyes were black, his skin unusually white, and the contrast gave him an air of passionate variability.
-- It is not certain that, in attaching himself to Doc Vickerson, Martin was entirely and edifyingly controlled by a desire to become a Great Healer.
-- He did awe his Gang by bandaging stone-bruises, dissecting squirrels, and explaining the astounding and secret matters to be discovered at the back of the physiology, but he was not completely free from an ambition to command such glory among them as was enjoyed by the son of the Episcopalian minister, who could smoke an entire cigar without becoming sick.
-- He was an aged widower; for what he called "female fixings" he cared nothing; and the bedroom with its tottering bureau and its cot of frowsy blankets was cleaned only by Martin, in not very frequent attacks of sanitation.
-- The Doc was sober!Martin would not have to help him into bed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an over-strained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
-- He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and iso-lated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all.
-- It is not serious at all.
-- Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speak-ing into a complete blankness of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it.
-- Not shame, however, but quite another feeling akin to terror had overtaken him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Last Retrospect 7PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONI DO not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, inthe first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with thecomposure which this formal heading would seem to require.
-- On the second branch of the question, Iwill only remark, that unless I ran through that part of myinheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet.
-- But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of thisproperty; and if any- body else should be in the present enjoymentof it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
-- Not to meander myself, at present, Iwill go back to my birth.
-- She had never seen my mother, but she knew herto be not yet twenty.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.
-- Sorrow came a gentle sorrow but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness. Miss Taylor married.
-- He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.
-- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudi-narian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though ev-erywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
-- She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civ-il, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
-- I did not anticipate that this application of the word to a modern use would extend outside the chapters of my own chronicles.
-- The game of prisoner's base, which not so long ago seemed to enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there.
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