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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then something snapped, the drawer was opened, and there was a rustle of papers.
-- Their business there was of a private nature, and had something to do with the specific gravity of their beer.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The facial part projected, forming something dim-ly suggestive of a muzzle, and the huge half-open mouth showed as big white teeth as I had ever seen in a human mouth.
-- He was on the brink of saying something further, then looked up at me suddenly and fol-lowed me up the ladder.
-- I was bored and wanted something to do.
-- 'There's something in this starlight that loosens one's tongue.
-- I saw only their faces, yet there was something in their faces I knew not what that gave me a queer spasm of disgust.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Something is coming uphill,' said Mother Wolf, twitch-ing one ear.
-- Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.
-- It was one very warm day that a new notion came to Ba-gheera born of something that he had heard.
-- 'That was foolishness, for though Tabaqui is a mischief-maker, he would have told thee of something that concerned thee closely.
-- The cubs were out, but Mother Wolf, at the back of the cave, knew by his breathing that something was trou-bling her frog.
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：
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
-- Let me ex-amine; perhaps something may be found among my own provisions that will help his appetite.'
-- 'Something like this I had heard before,' said Cora, ob-serving that he paused to suppress those passions which began to burn with too bright a flame, as he recalled the recollection of his supposed injuries.
-- Then, suddenly changing his bitter, ironical man-ner, to one more grave and thoughtful, he continued: 'and yet there might, and must be, something in that letter which it would be well to know!'
-- 'Major Heyward,' said Munro, turning to his youthful associate with the dignity of his years and superior rank; 'I should have served his majesty for half a century, and earned these gray hairs in vain, were I ignorant of all you say, and of the pressing nature of our circumstances; still, there is everything due to the honor of the king's arms, and something to ourselves.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallant-ries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments ofa bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes.
-- There was something extremely pro-voking, in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival.
-- As he ap-proached a little nearer, he thought he saw something white, hanging in the midst of the tree: he paused, and ceased whistling but, on looking more narrowly, perceived that it was a place where the tree had been scathed by lightning, and the white wood laid bare.
-- In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen and towering.
-- There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysteri-ous and appalling.
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：
-- To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story.
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
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