to是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. (表示方向) 到； 向； (表示间接关系) 给.，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 lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own hands.
-- A guest to stop at Iping in the wintertime was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her good fortune.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
-- The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited.
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- DO not propose to add anything to what has already I been written concerning the loss of the 'Lady Vain.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- 'It is time to hunt again.'
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
-- But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way.
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：
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-- INTRODUCTION It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the Iinformation necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes.
-- Still there is so much obscu-rity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.
-- These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
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：
-- Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness.
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
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