story是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 故事， 传说， 小说； (=storey) 楼层，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, make a long story short, I guess I've sold too much mining stock, and they'll be coming down on me.
-- He told the story of the Novaks, and Winter cried, "Why, Doctor, you did everything you could have and more too.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This story was published by the poet Nekrassov in his review and was received with acclamations.
-- For in unfolding to you the story of my life, I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners, who indeed know all about it already, but I am looking for a man of feeling and education.
-- She knows everyone in the neighbourhood, and that month she was continually coming into the town, and as she is rather talkative and fond of gossiping about her family affairs and particularly of complaining to all and each of her husband which is not at all right so in a short time she had spread her story not only in the town, but over the whole surrounding dis-trict.
-- To begin with, the whole story contradicts itself.
-- Well, brother, to make a long story short, I was going in for a regular explosion here to uproot all malignant influences in the locality, but Pashenka won the day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to anypurpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.
-- In the morning too,when I felt weary, and should have enjoyed another hour's reposevery much, it was a tiresome thing to be roused, like the SultanaScheherazade, and forced into a long story before the getting-upbell rang; but Steerforth was resolute; and as he explained to me, inreturn, my sums and exercises, and anything in my tasks that wastoo hard for me, I was no loser by the transaction.
-- But I must say that when I was going on with a story in the darkthat night, Mr. Mell's old flute seemed more than once to soundmournfully in my ears; and that when at last Steerforth was tired,and I lay down in my bed, I fancied it playing sorrowfullysomewhere, that I was quite wretched.
-- Mr. Micawber was waiting for me within the gate, and we went upto his room (top story but one), and cried very much.
-- Again, and again, and a hundred times again, since the night whenthe thought had first occurred to me and banished sleep, I hadgone over that old story of my poor mother's about my birth,which it had been one of my great delights in the old time to hearher tell, and which I knew by heart.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, now I have just given you a hint of what Jane writes about, we will turn to her letter, and I am sure she tells her own story a great deal better than I can tell it for her.'
-- The charming Augusta Hawkins, in addition to all the 220 Emmausual advantages of perfect beauty and merit, was in pos-session of an independent fortune, of so many thousands as would always be called ten; a point of some dignity, as well as some convenience: the story told well; he had not thrown himself away he had gained a woman of 10,000 l. or thereabouts; and he had gained her with such delightful rapidity the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice; the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the af-fair was so glorious the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's smiles and blushes rising in importance with consciousness and agitation richly scattered the lady had been so easily impressed so sweetly disposed had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally con-tented.
-- Something of that nature would be particularly desirable for me, as an inducement to keep me in practice; for married women, you know there is a sad story against them, in general.
-- The young ladies of High-bury might have walked again in safety before their panic began, and the whole history dwindled soon into a matter 408 Emmaof little importance but to Emma and her nephews: in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.
-- Some portion of respect for herself, however, in spite of all these demerits some concern for her own appearance, and a strong sense of justice by Harriet (there would be no need of compassion to the girl who believed herself loved by Mr. Knightley but justice required that she should not be made unhappy by any coldness now,) gave Emma the resolution to sit and endure farther with calm-ness, with even apparent kindness. For her own advantage indeed, it was fit that the utmost extent of Harriet's hopes should be enquired into; and Harriet had done nothing to forfeit the regard and interest which had been so voluntarily formed and maintained or to deserve to be slighted by the person, whose counsels had never led her right. Rousing from reflection, therefore, and subduing her emotion, she turned to Harriet again, and, in a more inviting accent, re-newed the conversation; for as to the subject which had first introduced it, the wonderful story of Jane Fairfax, that was quite sunk and lost. Neither of them thought but of Mr. Knightley and themselves.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far from the Madding CrowdPREFACEIn reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd," as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- "She fleed at him, and, to cut a long story short, he owned to having carried off five sack altogether, upon her promising not to persecute him.
-- Bathsheba then began, with some awkwardness, allowing her thoughts to stray occasionally from her story to attend to the shears, which required a little nicety in sharpening.
-- "I mean this, that if Mr. Boldwood really spoke of marriage, I bain't going to tell a story and say he didn't to please you.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the 莽卢卢 1 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed _intra et extra muros_ before it is over.
-- You will read the story of Father Goriot's secret woes, and, dining thereafter with an unspoiled appetite, will lay the blame of your insensibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances.
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