virtually是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 实际上, 事实上，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：
-- The other circumstance was the arrival of his clothes, when it became necessary for her to examine and identify them though this had virtually been done long before by those who inspected the letters in his pockets.
-- However, one excellent result of her general apathy was the long-delayed installation of Oak as bailiff; but he having virtually exercised that function for a long time already, the change, beyond the substantial increase of wages it brought, was little more than a nominal one addressed to the outside world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had fully comprehended that 494 A tale of two citiesno personal influence could possibly save him, that he was virtually sentenced by the millions, and that units could avail him nothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that the royal speech at the opening of such session virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have a considerable stroke of work to do, and you will please to retire to your respective chambers, and discuss, How not to do it.
-- It is true that the royal speech, at the close of such session, virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have through several laborious months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you have found out; and with the blessing of Providence upon the harvest (natural, not political), I now dismiss you.
-- Oh!all right!Here we are. You are to understand that we are this very day virtually complete.
-- Some laughed; some said, by way of complete excuse, that the post was virtually a sinecure, and any fool who could spell his name was good enough for it; some, and these the more solemn political oracles, said that Decimus did wisely to strengthen himself, and that the sole constitutional purpose of all places within the gift of Decimus, was, that Decimus should strengthen himself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether they like it or not, they are virtually put upon the shelf as soon as the wedding excitement is over, and most of them might exclaim, as did a very pretty woman the other day, 'I'm as handsome as ever, but no one takes any notice of me because I'm married.'
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