something是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为pron. 某事， 某物； 被视为有意义的事物，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT'S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONGThe next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout said to himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards, and the sooner he did so the better.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew the cat would drag in something if I left the door unlocked."
-- The boy, normal village youngster though he was, given to stoning cats and to playing pom-pom- pullaway, gained something of the intoxication of treasure-hunting as the Doc struggled to convey his vision of the pride of learning, the universality of biology, the triumphant exactness of chemistry.
-- He watched Martin slip the lens into his pocket, he sighed, he struggled for something else to say, and silently he lumbered into his bedroom.
-- It was believed that he was the son of a German prince, that he had immense wealth, that he lived as sparsely as the other professors only because he was doing terrifying and costly experiments which probably had something to do with human sacrifice.
-- Clif was the clown of the fraternity house, he was given to raucous laughter, he clogged and sang meaningless songs, he even practiced on the cornet, yet he was somehow a good fellow and solid, and Martin, in his detestation of Ira Hinkley, his fear of Angus Duer, his pity for Fatty Pfaff, his distaste for the amiable dullness of Irving Watters, turned to the roaring Clif as to something living and experimenting.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shy, un-known youth found himself instantly something of a celebrity.
-- He had forgotten the note of that bell, and now its peculiar tinkle seemed to remind him of something and to bring it clearly before him芒聙娄.
-- 'I've brought something to pawn here,' and he drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
-- He looked at the old woman, and was in no hurry to get away, as though there was still something he wanted to say or to do, but he did not himself quite know what.
-- 'I may be bringing you something else in a day or two, Alyona Ivanovna a valuable thing silver a cigarette-box, as soon as I get it back from a friend 芒聙娄' he broke off in confusion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- My mother had been thinking of something else.
-- There is something of a doleful air about that room to me, forPeggotty has told me- I don't know when, but apparently ages ago-about my father's funeral, and the company having their blackcloaks put on.
-- I feel that if I looked at him any longer, I might betempted to say something out loud; and what would become of methen?
-- As my mother stooped down on the threshold to take me in herarms and kiss me, the gentleman said I was a more highlyprivileged little fellow than a monarch- or something like that; formy later understanding comes, I am sensible, to my aid here.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have drawn two pretty pictures; but I think there may be a third a something be-tween the do-nothing and the do-all.
-- Altogether she was quite convinced of Harriet 30 EmmaSmith's being exactly the young friend she wanted exactly the something which her home required.
-- She had taken up a wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and son's wife, who all lived together; but when it appeared that the Mr. Martin, who bore a part in the narrative, and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good-nature in doing something or other, was a single man; that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in the case; she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospi-tality and kindness, and that, if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever.
-- But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the El-egant Extracts, very entertaining.
-- Har-riet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to return again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been talked of, and with an agitated, hurried look, announcing something extraor-dinary to have happened which she was longing to tell.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the tone of twopence remarkably insignificant.
-- Something was on fire.
-- This climax of the series had been reached to-night on the aforesaid moor, and for the first time in the season its irregularities were forms without features; suggestive of anything, proclaiming nothing, and without more character than that of being the limit of something else the lowest layer of a firmament of snow.
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