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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be on the shaded hemisphere of the globe no sentient being save himself; he could fancy them all gone round to the sunny side.
-- I have never been more frightened in my life, but I don't mind breaking my rest if she recovers."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- It might be possible to describe it if some one should discover a process by which to distil from the atmosphere all the nauseating elements with which it is charged by the 莽卢卢 3 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 catarrhal exhalations of every individual lodger, young or old.
-- She has the glassy eyes and innocent air of a trafficker in flesh and blood, who will wax virtuously indignant to obtain a higher price for her services, but who is quite ready to betray a Georges or a Pichegru, if a Georges or a Pichegru were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other expedient that may alleviate her lot.
-- There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme.
-- She was pretty by force of contrast; if she had been happy, she would have been charming.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- If I suc-ceed, many, many months, perhaps years, will pass before you and I may meet.
-- If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never.
-- I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.
-- If you say 'war' again, I'll go in the house."
-- Scarlett, like the rest of the County, could never get used to the way smallMrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.
-- If it is, you know we promised not to tell."
-- Everybody's known for years that they'd get married some time, even if he did seem kind of lukewarmabout it."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Darn me if I couldn't eat em," said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, "and if I han't half a mind to't!"
-- "Say Lord strike you dead if you don't!"
-- At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his arms,--clasping himself, as if to hold himself together,--and limped towards the low church wall.
-- As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
-- The man was limping on towards this latter, as if he were the pirate come to life, and come down, and going back to hook himself up again.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The next morning the court sat to judge him; and when all was heard, it sentenced him to die, unless he should bring the king the golden horse which could run as swiftly as the wind; and if he did this, he was to have the golden bird given him for his own.
-- I will still, however, tell you how to find the golden horse, if you will do as I bid you.
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