how是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 1. (表示方法、 手段、 状态) 怎样； 如何，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：
-- How the stranger occupied himself is unknown.
-- I want to know what you been doing t'my chair upstairs, and I want to know how 'tis your room was empty, and how you got in again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
-- I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
-- I could not recollect how I had got there.
-- 'But,' said he with a momentary hesitation, 'you know I'm dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat.
-- I told him my name, Edward Prendick, and how I had taken to Natural History as a relief from the dulness of my comfortable independence.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How beautiful are the noble children!How large are their eyes!And so young too!Indeed, indeed, I might have re-membered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.'
-- The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything with-out a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
-- 'How little!How naked, and how bold!'
-- And that is how Mowgli was entered into the Seeonee Wolf Pack for the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word.
-- When he felt dirty or hot he swam in the forest pools; and when he wanted honey (Baloo told him that honey and nuts were just as pleasant to eat as raw meat) he climbed up for it, and that Bagheera showed him how to do.
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：
-- Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.
-- Then, without circumlocution or apology, first pronounced the word 'Standish,' and placing the un-known engine, already described, to his mouth, from which he drew a high, shrill sound, that was followed by an octave below, from his own voice, he commenced singing the fol-lowing words, in full, sweet, and melodious tones, that set the music, the poetry, and even the uneasy motion of his illtrained beast at defiance; 'How good it is, O see, And how it pleaseth well, Together e'en in unity, For brethren so to dwell.
-- In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
-- 'You are, then, lost,' interrupted the hunter, 'and have found how helpless 'tis not to know whether to take the right hand or the left?'
-- 'And in so doing, how know I that I don't guide an en-emy and a spy of Montcalm, to the works of the army?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tomb-stones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his supe-rior elegance and address.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
-- From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these re-gions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peer-less daughter of Van Tassel.
-- I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won.
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：
-- When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how much he was likely to make out of it.
-- Then we would talk of agents and the offers they had obtained for us; of editors and the sort of contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise.
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