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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was beginning to explain the case in a categorical manner, when Lord Glenarvan and his party came up on the poop.
-- In the latter case we shall carry him off at once, but in the event of the former, after we have reconnoitered the situation, we must go back to the DUNCAN on the eastern coast and get to Buenos Ayres, where we can soon organize a detachment of men, with Major McNabbs at their head, strong enough to tackle all the Indians in the Argentine provinces."
-- "But when the barometer rises, on the contrary, which is the case now, all we need expect is a few violent blasts.
-- "And is it the case now?"
-- Before getting lower the liquid mass must remain stationary, as in the case with the ocean before the ebb tide commences.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
-- 'The facts of the case are simple.
-- 'I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest.
-- 'It is evidently a case of extraordinary interest, and one which presented immense opportunities to the scientific expert.
-- I fear lest I should be swayed too much by my own ob-vious interest in the matter, and that is why I bring the case before you and ask for your advice.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the case of an execution, that last hope hav-ing which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die, is taken away from the wretch and CERTAINTY substituted in its place!There is his sentence, and with it that terrible certainty that he cannot possibly escape death which, I consider, must be the most dreadful anguish in the world.
-- In that case it all depends upon what is going on in her brain at this moment.'
-- For a man of Totski's wealth and standing, it would, of course, have been the simplest possible matter to take steps which would rid him at once from all annoyance; while it was obviously impossible for Nastasia Philipovna to harm him in any way, either legally or by stirring up a scandal, for, in case of the latter danger, he could so easily remove her to a sphere of safety.
-- However, these arguments would only hold good in case of Nastasia acting as others might in such an emergency.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were pretty in the main, some even handsome, with an air of independence and indifference which added, in the case of the more favoured, a certain piquancy.
-- In the case of Carrie he found a woman who was all of the latter, but none of the former.
-- We only want it in case we have any information to send her."
-- Another case of her company not wanted, and excuses being made.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't had no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better and actuly SAF-ER than a lie.
-- 'Well,' he says, 'there's excuse for picks and letting-on in a case like this; if it warn't so, I wouldn't approve of it, nor I wouldn't stand by and see the rules broke because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no busi-ness doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
-- But he had to have it; Tom said he'd GOT to; there warn't no case of a state prisoner not scrabbling his inscription to leave behind, and his coat of arms.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in case they don't run away, I can always run myself.
-- "In that case you also are free," said the Jailer.
-- In case you do disobey, you will be the one to suffer, not anyone else."
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