if是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为conj. (用于连接宾语从句) 是否; 是不是,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
-- growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a mer- Sons and Loversry Christmas.
-- 'If they would rather die,' said Scrooge, 'they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stum-bling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.
-- It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all.
-- If any one of the three had had the hardihood to propose to another to walk on a little ahead into the mist and darkness, he would have put himself in a fair way of getting shot instantly as a highwayman.
-- The panting of the 10 A tale of two citieshorses communicated a tremulous motion to the coach, as if it were in a state of agitation.
-- 'I want a passenger, if it is.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I have never thought so myself; and no one must know it now if I am so.
-- 'If your Majesty will only be pleased to look at it!What a splendid design!What glorious colors!'
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, 'Here are your Majesty's trousers!Here is the scarf!Here is the mantle!The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.'
-- 'If your Imperial Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes, we will fit on the new suit, in front of the looking glass.'
-- The lords of the bedchamber, who were to carry his Maj-esty's train felt about on the ground, as if they were lifting up the ends of the mantle; and pretended to be carrying something; for they would by no means betray anything like simplicity, or unfitness for their office.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.
-- And the worst of it all is that she's already...it seems as if ill-luck would have it so!Oh, oh!But what, what is to be done?"
-- If there was a reason for his preferring liberal to conservative views, which were held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering liberalism more rational, but from its being in closer accordance with his manner of life.
-- And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family--the monkey.
-- Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions.
-- If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
-- "Jean, if monsieur pleases," replied the newcomer, "Jean Passepartout, a surname which has clung to me because I have a natural aptness for going out of one business into another.
-- Skilful detectives have been sent to all the principal ports of America and the Continent, and he'll be a clever fellow if he slips through their fingers."
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