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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
-- Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds?
-- It was so pathetic to hear her saying many things of this kind, with her face turned upward, and her arms stretched out as if she were trying to stop his departing shadow and embrace it, that no one spoke a word until Mr. Bounderby (growing impatient) took the case in hand.
-- Bounderby, this is a case for rigid training, and I shall observe it with interest.'
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too hot by half, if the degree of heat was to ascend so high--in which case we should certainly be cooked--not enough, if we wanted to ascertain the exact temperature of springs or metal in a state of fusion.
-- I could stand it no longer; so I determined at last to submit the whole case to my uncle, in the most adroit manner possible, and under the form of some totally irreconcilable hypothesis.
-- The Professor fastened his case of instruments on his back.
-- "In which case this granite would not exist, but be in a state of fusion."
-- The boxes which contained our supply of food for the voyage were placed in a row along the strand, and were in a capital state of preservation; the sea had in every case respected their contents, and to sum up in one sentence, taking into consideration, biscuits, salt meat, Schiedam and dried fish, we could still calculate on having about four months' supply, if used with prudence and caution.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, you'd better come along in case she sticks.
-- 'That is the point!In that case I don't mind in the least.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you mean that I have not represented the case correctly?'
-- Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.
-- I have been waking up night after night, and saying, now I have got it, now it has developed itself, now I am in for it, now these fellows are making out their case for their precautions.
-- 'Now,' he resumed, standing behind her: 'in case I should go away leaving things half done, and so should be wanted again when you come to the other half and get into one of your flights, has Arthur told you what he means to do about the business?'
-- In practice they had come to be considered a little too bad, though in theory they were quite as good as ever; which may be observed to be the case at the present day with other cells that are not at all strong, and with other blind alleys that are stone-blind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah 'knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".
-- 'It's a useful thing to have in the house in case of fire or thieves,' observed Laurie, as a watchman's rattle appeared, amid the laughter of the girls.
-- While this attack lasted, the family lived in constant fear of a conflagration, for the odor of burning wood pervaded the house at all hours, smoke issued from attic and shed with alarming frequency, red-hot pokers lay about promis-cuously, and Hannah never went to bed without a pail of water and the dinner bell at her door in case of fire.
-- Demi, with infantile penetration, soon discov-ered that Dodo like to play with 'the bear-man' better than she did him, but though hurt, he concealed his anguish, for he hadn't the heart to insult a rival who kept a mine of choc-olate drops in his waistcoat pocket, and a watch that could be taken out of its case and freely shaken by ardent admir-ers.
-- Then a family of six or seven boys sprung up like mushrooms, and flourished surprisingly, poor boys as well as rich, for Mr. Laurence was continually finding some touching case of destitution, and begging the Bhaers to take pity on the child, and he would gladly pay a trifle for its support.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
-- It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
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