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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But we can't get everything, my dear Major; and it is something at all events, to have the exact latitude.
-- "My dear child," said Lord Glenarvan, "there is something so providential in the whole affair, that we have every reason to hope.
-- Everybody had something to say about it except the Major, who surveyed the universal deluge with the utmost indifference.
-- Every arrangement had been made to insure safety and speed, for crossing the Andes is something more than an ordinary journey.
-- "Since there is a chimney in the CASUCHA," said the Major, "the probability is that we shall find something to burn in it."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical as-sistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.'
-- 'But I understand that it is something more modern and practical upon which you wish to consult me?'
-- 'Now, Mr. Holmes, we will give you something a little more recent.
-- I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
-- He wore a ruddy-tinted tweed suit and had the weath-er-beaten appearance of one who has spent most of his time in the open air, and yet there was something in his steady eye and the quiet assurance of his bearing which indicated the gentleman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the prince, looking at the millionaire with considerable curiosity But though there may have been something remarkable in the fact that this man was heir to millions of roubles there was something about him which surprised and interested the prince more than that.
-- I have heard something of Rogojin!'
-- But as your purse is quite empty at the present moment, you must allow me to press these twenty-five roubles upon your acceptance, as something to begin with.
-- As he came forward to wish his wife good-morning and kiss her hands, as his custom was, he observed something in her look which boded ill.
-- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insa-tiable contempt in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in soci-ety to keep up.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage; but Venus flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, 'Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?'
-- If, however, he is fearful about some oracle, or if his mother has told him something from Jove, then let him send you, and let the rest of the Myrmidons follow with you, if perchance you may bring light and saving to the Danaans.
-- And now you are again asking me to do something on which I cannot venture.'
-- If however you are kept back through knowledge of some oracle, or if your mother Thetis has told you something from the mouth of Jove, at least send me and the Myrmidons with me, if I may bring deliverance to the Danaans.
-- Take something from this store if you would have the Achaeans speak well of you, and give him a better prize even than that which you have now offered; but I will not give up the mare, and he that will fight me for her, let him come on.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would seem he was picking something from the floor.
-- "Give me something to drink," said Cuss, and he sat down.
-- Then, I thought, there's something odd in that.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his teeth, he bit off the paw of his front foot and threw it at that poor beast, so that he might have something to eat."
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