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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will reach a vil-lage in the evening; and when you get there, you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very pleas-ant and beautiful to look at: go not in there, but rest for the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean.'
-- Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him.
-- He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
-- Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
-- 'Sissy is not a name,' said Mr. Gradgrind.
-- 'Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact.
-- You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact.
-- You never meet with quadrupeds going up and down walls; you must not have quadrupeds represented upon walls.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my uncle was not a man to be kept waiting; so adjourning therefore all minor questions, I presented myself before him.
-- Not so my excellent uncle, Professor Hardwigg; he studied, he consumed the midnight oil, he pored over heavy tomes, and digested huge quartos and folios in order to keep the knowledge acquired to himself.
-- To tell the honest truth, when the right word would not come, it was generally replaced by a very powerful adjective.
-- In connection with the sciences there are many almost unpronounceable names--names very much resembling those of Welsh villages; and my uncle being very fond of using them, his habit of stammering was not thereby improved.
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not really downcast.
-- It was not so at all.
-- The two girls, therefore, were from an early age not the least daunted by either art or ideal politics.
-- That the poets and talkers about sex did not seem to have taken sufficiently into account.
-- But as a matter of fact, it was some old impression of authority on her own mind or soul that she could not get rid of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes.
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