initial是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 最初的, 开始的; n. 人名的首字母; vt. 签署姓名首字母于，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each utensil spoon, fork, knife, plate had a letter engraved on it, with a motto above it, of which this is an exact facsimile:MOBILIS IN MOBILI NThe letter N was no doubt the initial of the name of the enigmatical person who commanded at the bottom of the seas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I connected the title by which the boy had addressed the el-der brother, with the initial letter embroidered on the scarf, and had no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that I had seen that nobleman very lately.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here," he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n, o, t. These letters meant, "When you told me it could never be, did that mean never, or then?"
-- she wrote the initial letters, i, y, c, f, a, f, w, h. This meant, "If you could forget and forgive what happened."
-- He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus by association with the initial letters they mastered the twelve cranial nerves: olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, and the rest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this inviting spot, entreating him to observe its beauties as they passed along, Mr Quilp led Richard Swiveller, and on the table of the summer-house, scored deep with many a gallows and initial letter, there soon appeared a wooden keg, full of the vaunted liquor.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
-- This idea she proceeded to carry out, with what initial success we have already seen.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She retraced several of the letters, for her hand was trembling so that they were indistinct; then she signed the note with an initial C for "Claire de Bourgogne," and rang the bell.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone was very polite and kind toher because he felt sorry for her, but no one could forget that she had compounded her initial error of birth by beingthe governess of Mr. Calvert's children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Biddy looked thoughtfully at it, heard my explanation, looked thoughtfully at my sister, looked thoughtfully at Joe (who was always represented on the slate by his initial letter), and ran into the forge, followed by Joe and me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The initial idea had been, to obtain as much money from the earth as would make the owners comfortably rich, would allow the workmen sufficient wages and good conditions, and would increase the wealth of the country altogether.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, they can decipher all initial letters into po-litical meanings.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, what you DID see on his breast was a small dim P, and a B (which is an initial he dropped when he was young), and a W, with dashes be-tween them, so: P B W' and he marked them that way on a piece of paper.
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