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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
-- My first contrivance was to make a pretence to speak to this Moor, to get something for our subsistence on board; for I told him we must not presume to eat of our patron's bread.
-- He, thinking no harm, agreed, and being in the head of the boat, set the sails; and, as I had the helm, I ran the boat out near a league farther, and then brought her to, as if I would fish; when, giving the boy the helm, I stepped forward to where the Moor was, and making as if I stooped for something behind him, I took him by surprise with my arm under his waist, and tossed him clear overboard into the sea.
-- I had no sooner said so, but I perceived the creature (whatever it was) within two oars' length, which something surprised me; however, I immedi-ately stepped to the cabin door, and taking up my gun, fired at him; upon which he immediately turned about and swam towards the shore again.
-- I thought he was pursued by some savage, or frighted with some wild beast, and I ran forward towards him to help him; but when I came nearer to him I saw something hang-ing over his shoulders, which was a creature that he had shot, like a hare, but different in colour, and longer legs; however, we were very glad of it, and it was very good meat; but the great joy that poor Xury came with, was to tell me he had found good water and seen no wild mans.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something must be done for them whenever they leave Norland and settle in a new home."
-- "Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT something need not be three thousand pounds.
-- "That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it would not be more advisable to do something for their mother while she lives, rather than for them something of the annuity kind I mean. My sisters would feel the good effects of it as well as herself.
-- But yet he is not the kind of young man there is something wanting his figure is not striking; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister.
-- There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
-- There was something satisfactory in the attention of this individual with his good clothes.
-- He felt that it was something to be connected with such a place, and he made her feel that way.
-- The dullest feel something which they may not always express or describe.
-- She felt something lost to her when he moved away.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use.
-- The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about some- body that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog cry- ing about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn't make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me.
-- Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
-- Pret- ty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees something was a stirring.
-- Then we got out, and I was in a sweat to get away; but nothing would do Tom but he must crawl to where Jim was, on his hands and knees, and play something on him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the fire, there was painted a pot full of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam.
-- Suddenly, he saw, among the sweepings in a corner, something round and white that looked very much like a hen's egg.
-- "Very true," answered Pinocchio, "but, in order to go to school, I still need something very important."
-- And then something happened which almost caused a riot.
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