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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the woman's tone which is not that of the wife, and there was a manner in the man which is rarely a husband's.
-- Something in the exact arch of her upper unbroken row of teeth, and in the keenly pointed corners of her red mouth when, with parted lips, she somewhat defiantly turned up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were in something the same position as an elderly couple who have nothing left to say to each other.
-- Vauquer's magpie's eye had discovered and read certain entries in the list of shareholders in the 莽卢卢 9 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 funds, and, after a rough calculation, was disposed to credit Goriot (worthy man) with something like ten thousand francs a year.
-- The hale vermicelli manufacturer, sixty-two years of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous tradesman, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it did you good to look at him; the man with something boyish in his smile, had suddenly sunk into his dotage, and had become a feeble, vacillating septuagenarian.
-- "Oh!I have just seen something so funny---- .
-- Or if they cannot do that, they will tear out their mothers' hearts to find something to pay for their splendor.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.
-- I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.
-- My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed, 'Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, al-low me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.'
-- 'Being thus provided, I resolved to reside in this hovel until something should occur which might alter my deter-mination.
-- The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play and to produce sounds sweet-er than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you suppose we said something that made her mad?"
-- But it was something we did or said that made her shut up talking and look sort of sick.
-- "He'd be just fool enough to let the patterollers get him and that would give Ma something else to talk about forweeks.
-- There was something vital and earthy and coarse about him that appealed to her.
-- She had hoped against hope that something would keep Melanie Hamilton inAtlanta where she belonged, and the knowledge that even her father approved of her sweet quiet nature, so differentfrom her own, forced her into the open.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt that I must have something in reserve for my dreadful acquaintance, and his ally the still more dreadful young man.
-- One black ox, with a white cravat on,--who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air,--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!It wasn't for myself I took it!"
-- Something clicked in his throat as if he had works in him like a clock, and was going to strike.
-- he returned, with something like a gruff laugh.
-- Mr. Wopsle said grace with theatrical declamation,--as it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet with Richard the Third,--and ended with the very proper aspiration that we might be truly grateful.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it were a pig now like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.'
-- 'I ought to have something into the bargain,' said the countryman; 'give a fat goose for a pig, indeed!
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