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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all.
-- He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the 莽卢卢 1 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.
-- It would be impossible to give an idea of the old, rotten, shaky, cranky, worm-eaten, halt, maimed, one-eyed, rickety, and ramshackle condition of the furniture without an exhaustive description, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon.
-- In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.
-- But for his observant curiosity, and the skill with which he managed to introduce himself into the salons of Paris, this story would not have been colored by the tones of truth which it certainly owes to him, for they are entirely due to his penetrating sagacity and desire to fathom the mysteries of an appalling condition of things, which was concealed as carefully by the victim as by those who had brought it to pass.
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What may not be expected in a country of eter-nal light?
-- And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?
-- I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- I do not intend to sail until the month of June; and when shall I return?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- They hadjust been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; andtheir older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution wherethe twins were not welcome.
-- She meant what she said, for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chiefsubject.
-- War was men'sbusiness, not ladies', and they took her attitude as evidence of her femininity.
-- Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroesand eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong.
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.
-- Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it at all; or why, if she did wear it at all, she should not have taken it off, every day of her life.
-- One of us, by the by, had not said it at all.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
-- Then the fox said, 'Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.
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