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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is the ‘balance-fish,' or hammer-headed shark, if I am not much mistaken.
-- But if your Lordship has no objections, and it would give the smallest pleasure to Lady Helena to see a novelty in the way of fishing, we'll soon haul up the monster and find out what it really is."
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- Nobody contradicted him, as he was supposed to know; but Lady Helena exclaimed, "What does it matter about the bottle, if we don't know where it comes from?"
-- "Wait a little, dear Helena, wait; we must have patience with bottles; but if I am not much mistaken, this one will answer all our questions," replied her husband, beginning to scrape away the hard substances round the neck.
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:
-- And if we take this as a working hypothesis we have a fresh basis from which to start our construction of this unknown visitor.'
-- If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician little more than a senior student.
-- As to the adjectives, I said, if I remem-ber right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded.
-- 'I think, Dr. Mortimer, you would do wisely if without more ado you would kindly tell me plainly what the exact nature of the problem is in which you demand my assistance.'
-- Then, as it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil, for, rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the compa-ny that he would that very night render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the wench.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If they had but known why, at this par- ticular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third- class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.
-- Fancy if it had been a hard frost!I never thought it would be so cold in the old country.
-- That is, of course, if you really are a relative of Mrs. Epanchin's, and have not made a little error through well, absence of mind, which is very common to human beings; or, say through a too luxuriant fancy?'
-- As for Mr. Pavlicheff, who supported you in Switzerland, I know him too at least, if it was Nicolai Andreevitch of that name?
-- Give you my word, prince, if I hadn't cut and run then, when I did, he'd have murdered me like a dog.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If I have ever decked your temple with gar-lands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans.'
-- 'Son of Atreus,' said he, 'I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are be-ing cut down by war and pestilence at once.
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one.
-- Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that if I may make so bold as to say it, sir " "Will you get me some matches?"
-- CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONS At four o'clock, when it was fairly dark and Mrs. Hall was screwing up her courage to go in and ask her visitor if he would take some tea, Teddy Henfrey, the clock-jobber, came into the bar.
-- "Now you're here, Mr. Teddy," said she, "I'd be glad if you'd give th' old clock in the parlour a bit of a look.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Today, however, this room is mine," said the Marionette, "and if you wish to do me a favor, get out now, and don't turn around even once."
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