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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.
-- If you had, you would have carried away both the bird and the horse; yet will I once more give you counsel.
-- 'If you will only listen,' said the fox, 'it can be done.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them.
-- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
-- Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.
-- 'He belongs to the horse-riding, if you please, sir.'
-- 'If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring, sir.'
-- His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white.
-- She curtseyed again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed deeper than she had blushed all this time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another peculiarity of his was, that he always stepped a yard at a time, clenched his fists as if he were going to hit you, and was, when in one of his peculiar humors, very far from a pleasant companion.
-- To me there was nothing like pebbles --and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.
-- If my uncle were to come to table after all?
-- "It may be so, sir," I timidly observed, "but why conceal it from posterity, if it be a useful, a worthy discovery?"
-- If we could find that, the rest would be easy enough."
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：
-- One was less in love with the boy afterwards, and a little inclined to hate him, as if he had trespassed on one's privacy and in-ner freedom.
-- And if after the roused intimacy of these vivid and soul-enlightened discussions the sex thing became more or less inevitable, then let it.
-- And afterwards looked rather as if they had lost a shilling and found sixpence.
-- She lived with him in a smallish house in Westminster, and moved in that good sort of society of people in the government who are not tip-toppers, but who are, or would be, the real intelli-gent power in the nation: people who know what they're talking about, or talk as if they did.
-- If the truth must be told, he was just a little bit frightened of middle-and lower-class humanity, and of foreigners not of his own class.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very dust was scorched brown, and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were panting.
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