why是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. /conj. 为什么； …的理由int. 咳， 哎呀，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this the old king saw: so he went home without being seen; and when the lit-tle goose-girl came back in the evening he called her aside, and asked her why she did so: but she burst into tears, and said, 'That I must not tell you or any man, or I shall lose my life.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'he knew no reason why those, who entertain opinions prejudicial to the pub-lic, should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them.
-- The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred 209yards distant from the centre.
-- But there is still indeed a more weighty reason, why the kings of this country have been always averse from execut-ing so terrible an action, unless upon the utmost necessity.
-- I could plainly discover whence one family derives a long chin; why a second has abounded with knaves for two genera-tions, and fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be sharpers; whence it came, what Polydore Virgil says of a certain great house, Nec vir fortis, nec foemina casta; how cruelty, falsehood, and cow-ardice, grew to be characteristics by which certain families are distinguished as much as by their coats of arms; who first brought the pox into a noble house, which has lineal-ly descended scrofulous tumours to their posterity.
-- He said, 'my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why wouldn't you?'
-- 'Why would you?'
-- 'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'
-- Why no, not quite well.
-- 'Why are you tearing about the streets,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'in this improper manner?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a reason, and it may be regarded as a good one, why my uncle objected to display his learning more than was absolutely necessary: he stammered; and when intent upon explaining the phenomena of the heavens, was apt to find himself at fault, and allude in such a vague way to sun, moon, and stars that few were able to comprehend his meaning.
-- "I declare it puts me in mind of a cryptograph," he cried, "unless, indeed, the letters have been written without any real meaning; and yet why take so much trouble?
-- "It may be so, sir," I timidly observed, "but why conceal it from posterity, if it be a useful, a worthy discovery?"
-- "The very reason why you should go up.
-- "You said, sir--" "Yes, yes, all is clear, I see the link in the chain; everything is explained, and I now understand why Arne Saknussemm, put out of court, forced to hide his magnificent discoveries, was compelled to conceal beneath the veil of an incomprehensible cryptograph, the secret--" "What secret?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why couldn't a girl be queenly, and give the gift of herself?
-- Well, there it was: fated like the rest of things!It was rather awful, but why kick?
-- Why not?'
-- Why should there be anything in them, why should they last?
-- But why not?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Over!and why should I say no more about it because it's over?'
-- There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract which commenced business with the poor child by asking him in its title, why he was going to Perdition? a piece of curiosity that he really, in a frock and drawers, was not in a condition to satisfy and which, for the further attraction of his infant mind, had a parenthesis in every other line with some such hiccupping reference as 2 Ep.
-- And if you like to have her, why you can.'
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