them是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为pron. 他们/她们/它们(they的宾格形式)，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These gallant words which seem so novel to those that speak them were said in accents scarcely changed a hundred times before.
-- It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember.
-- Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn't for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your "stuff."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their rapid descent alone had informed them of the dangers which they ran from the waves.
-- The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
-- No human efforts could save them now.
-- They were prisoners of war whose boldness had induced them to escape in this extraordinary manner.
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- The story I am about to relate, and to which I shall recur at intervals, arose out of one of these rambles; and thus I have been led to speak of them by way of preface.
-- While we were thus engaged, I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one.
-- He stopped short at the door on seeing a stranger, twirled in his hand a perfectly round old hat without any vestige of a brim, and resting himself now on one leg and now on the other and changing them constantly, stood in the doorway, looking into the parlour with the most extraordinary leer I ever beheld.
-- As for Kit himself (whose laugh had been all the time one of that sort which very little would change into a cry) he carried a large slice of bread and meat and a mug of beer into a corner, and applied himself to disposing of them with great voracity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They descended the stone stairway, and as they passed the men's ward, noisy and more noisome even than the woman's ward, scores of eyes followed them from behind the gratings.
-- The old maiden chided them for the cream and for permitting the woman to lie in the cow-shed, and was on the point of departing, but noticing the child, was moved to pity, and afterward consented to stand godmother to the child.
-- His wife became aware of it, and when, on one occasion, she found them both in the room, she fell on Katiousha and began to beat her.
-- There he washed his partly gold-filled teeth with a tooth-powder, rinsed them with a perfumed mouth-wash, then began to sponge himself and dry his body with Turkish towels.
-- Beside them lay the last number of the "Revue des deux Mondes," newspapers and his mail.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had nothing on them but a pair of tattered, blood-stained socks.
-- Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.
-- One of them addressed me.
-- And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like ninepins.
-- But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, that's your fault, for keeping your eyes open if you'd shut them tight up, it wouldn't have happened.
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