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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall was about to leave the room she made no conversational advances this time, because she did not want to be snubbed in front of Mr. Henfrey when her visitor asked her if she had made any arrangements about his boxes at Bramblehurst.
-- "And if I might make so bold as to ask " "That I think, is all," said the stranger, with that quietly irresistible air of finality he could assume at will.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing to-gether among the sharks that followed us; but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink, the sailor came round to him.
-- I would not draw lots however, and in the night the sail-or whispered to Helmar again and again, and I sat in the bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar's proposal, and we handed halfpence to find the odd man.
-- I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
-- And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line.
-- 'If he comes this end of the ship again I'll cut his insides out, I tell you.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world the wolf checked in mid-spring.
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- Even where he was, Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
-- The man's cub is ours to kill if we choose.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so ex-press it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.
-- His head was large; his shoulders narrow; his arms long and dangling; while his hands were small, if not delicate.
-- The colors of the war-paint had blended in dark confusion about his fierce countenance, and rendered his swarthy lineaments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance.
-- For a single in-stant his searching and yet wary glance met the wondering look of the other, and then changing its direction, partly in cunning, and partly in disdain, it remained fixed, as if pen-etrating the distant air.
-- She smiled, as if in pity at her own momentary forgetfulness, discovering by the act a row of teeth that would have shamed the purest ivory; when, replacing the veil, she bowed her face, and rode in silence, like one whose thoughts were abstracted from the scene around her.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
-- But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cud-dling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly pur-chased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swal-lows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; an rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watch-ing the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
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