case是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 箱， 盒， 容器； 情况， 事实； 病例； 案件，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If I were rich," he said, as he changed the five-franc piece he had brought with him in case anything might happen, "I would take a cab, then I could think at my ease."
-- His position was not unlike that of some visitor permitted as a favor to inspect a private collection of curiosities, when by inadvertence he comes into collision with a glass case full of sculptured figures, and three or four heads, imperfectly secured, fall at the shock.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imag-ine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
-- The storm, as is often the case in Switzerland, appeared at once in various parts of the heavens.
-- I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and 223death.
-- In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a child, she often had crept to the door and, peeping through the tiniest crack, had seen Ellen emerge fromthe dark room, where Gerald's snores were rhythmic and untroubled, into the flickering light of an upheld candle, hermedicine case under her arm, her hair smoothed neatly place, and no button on her basque unlooped.
-- He had told Gerald over and over that Emmie Slattery's baby might have been fathered by any one of a dozen men aseasily as himself an idea in which Gerald concurred but that had not altered his case so far as Ellen was concerned.
-- It seemed very natural in the case of her mother and father, but she had never applied it to herself.
-- The grinning little man was coming to their booth now, his basket heavy on his arm, and as he passed Rhett Butlera handsome gold cigar case was thrown carelessly into the basket.
-- So the ladies felt in duty bound tostretch a point, especially in the case of so intrepid a blockader.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this particular evening the urgency of my case demanded a pint of this mixture, which was poured down my throat, for my greater comfort, while Mrs. Joe held my head under her arm, as a boot would be held in a bootjack.
-- Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.
-- A little later on in the dinner, Mr. Wopsle reviewed the sermon with some severity, and intimated--in the usual hypothetical case of the Church being "thrown open"--what kind of sermon he would have given them.
-- This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me.
-- But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: 'If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.'
-- 'I feel very unhappy about it,' said the husband, 'in case it should not be all right, and he ought to have said good-bye to me.'
-- She took nothing with her but a little ring which her fa-ther and mother had given her, a loaf of bread in case she should be hungry, a little pitcher of water in case she should be thirsty, and a little stool to rest upon when she should be weary.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The case seemed wholly desperate and deplorable; and this magnificent palace would have infal-libly been burnt down to the ground, if, by a presence of mind unusual to me, I had not suddenly thought of an ex-pedient.
-- ''Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwith-standing, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apart-ment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.
-- When the stone is put parallel to the plane of the hori-zon, the island stands still; for in that case the extremities of it, being at equal distance from the earth, act with equal force, the one in drawing downwards, the other in pushing upwards, and consequently no motion can ensue.
-- Among others, there was one person, whose case ap-peared a little singular.
-- For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire 316 Gulliver's Travelsto know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseas-es she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
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