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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked"Oh yes; he's something in the city.
-- It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its possession: for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise their dexterity.
-- Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our friends will want something when they come back.
-- "Here's our work," said Pencroft, "and if we ever see Captain Harding again, he will know how to make something of this labyrinth."
-- "The box must have fallen out of my pocket and got lost!Surely, Herbert, you must have something a tinder-box anything that can possibly make fire!"
-- "My own opinion," said Gideon Spilett, "with due deference to your experience, Pencroft, is that in the double fact of the absolute disappearance of Cyrus and Top, living or dead, there is something unaccountable and unlikely."
-- It appeared best to introduce something solid into the bill of fare, for all needed to get up their strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the manner of this reply which caused me to look at the little creature with an involuntary expression of surprise; for I wondered what kind of errand it might be that occasioned her to be prepared for questioning.
-- Though much altered by age, I fancied I could recognize in his spare and slender form something of that delicate mould which I had noticed in the child.
-- He said this with such evident surprise that I was perplexed what answer to make, and the more so because coupled with something feeble and wandering in his manner, there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
-- I think he would have amused one anywhere, but the child's exquisite enjoyment of his oddity, and the relief it was to find that there was something she associated with merriment in a place that appeared so unsuited to her, were quite irresistible.
-- 'Something violent, no doubt.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old woman began to say something to Maslova.
-- There was something so unusual in the expression of her face--something so terrible and piteous in the meaning of her words, in that smile, that quick glance which she cast over the court-room--that the justiciary hung his head, and for a moment there was perfect silence.
-- She became silent, as if she had lost the thread of the story, or thought of something else.
-- Then the eyes would speak something different, more important, than the mouth; the lips were drawn up, they felt uncomfortable, and quickly parted.
-- However, when he was taking leave, and Katiousha, standing on the veranda with the aunts, follo wed him with her black, tearful and somewhat squinting eyes, he felt that he was leaving behind him something beautiful, precious, which would never recur.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But," said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, "if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different?
-- "I want something to eat.
-- It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
-- What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful?
-- Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I've held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.
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