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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the fact that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of his face exposed excepting only his pink, peaked nose.
-- He did not remove the serviette, but remained holding it, as she saw now, with a brown gloved hand, and regarding her with his inscrutable blue glasses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DO not propose to add anything to what has already I been written concerning the loss of the 'Lady Vain.'
-- Constans, who was 'seen by the captain to jump into the gig,'* luck-ily for us and unluckily for himself did not reach us.
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- They could not have heard us, and the next morning when the drizzle cleared, which was not until past midday, we could see nothing of them.
-- We could not stand up to look about us, because of the pitching of the boat.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,' said Mother Wolf quietly.
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- 'Faugh!Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!'
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- But see, he looks up and is not afraid.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- The Mengwe, the Maquas, the Min-goes, and the Iroquois, though not all strictly the same, are identified frequently by the speakers, being politically con-federated and opposed to those just named.
-- As every word uttered by Natty Bumppo was not to be received as rigid truth, we took the liberty of putting the 'Horican' into his mouth, as the substitute for 'Lake George.'
-- While, in the pursuit of their daring plans of annoyance, the restless enterprise of the French even attempted the dis-tant and difficult gorges of the Alleghany, it may easily be imagined that their proverbial acuteness would not overlook the natural advantages of the district we have just described.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance.
-- It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have The Legend of Sleepy Hollowmentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who re-sides there for a time.
-- Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
-- It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.
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