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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If it was a whale, it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science.
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that.
-- They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
-- If we do NOT know them all if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot.
-- But if there did happen to come along a highly attractive individual of sufficient means well " she tailed off ironically.
-- Then she looked searchingly at Ursula, as if to probe her.
-- If only she could break through the last integuments!She seemed to try and put her hands out, like an infant in the womb, and she could not, not yet.
-- cried Ursula, looking slightly dazzled and falsified, and as if she did not know.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I should not allow any one to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it walk in!
-- Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
-- Such an individual seated in his arm chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at th e right time after dinner.
-- I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return the sweetest of all imaginable looks.
-- If I had been, I would have set my signet on the biter.'
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'You'd have guessed if you'd been up in the window with me only Dinah was making you tidy, so you couldn't.
-- How nice and soft it sounds!Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside.
-- I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?
-- Because, when we were playing just now, you watched just as if you understood it: and when I said "Check!"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
-- Every day when he came back from his stroll he would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the road.
-- He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg" and let him know the moment he appeared.
-- If ever he mentioned it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room.
-- says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
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