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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why not?'
-- 'I am waiting to hear why you recall it.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's why I do it.'
-- 'I think I am a little bit afraid of him, but I don't know why I should be.
-- 'Why not?'
-- 'Mother, why didn't Mr. Laurence like to have Laurie play?'
-- 'That's why he has such handsome black eyes and pretty manners, I suppose.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?
-- Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?
-- Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?
-- Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?
-- Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that.
-- Mrs. Sowerberry, who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way, was much struck by the novelty of this idea; but, as it would have been compromising her dignity to have said so, under existing circumstances, she merely inquired, with much sharpness, why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband's mind before?
-- The gentleman's notice was very soon attracted; for he had not walked three paces, when he turned angrily round, and inquired what that young cur was howling for, and why Mr. Bumble did not favour him with something which would render the series of vocular exclamations so designated, an involuntary process?
-- Never poached upon old Fagin!And why should they?
-- Why are you awake?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am sorry to hear THAT; but why did not you tell me that before?
-- He paused in hopes of an answer; but his companion was not disposed to make any; and Elizabeth at that instant moving towards them, he was struck with the action of do-ing a very gallant thing, and called out to her: 'My dear Miss Eliza, why are you not dancing?
-- Why could he not keep on quarrel-ing with you, as his father did before him?'
-- Why did you not seek legal redress?'
-- Thus much for my general intention in favour of matrimony; it remains to be told why my views were directed towards Longbourn instead of my own neighbourhood, where I can assure you there are many amiable young women.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked him why he would go?
-- why I should not go, and he stay in the boat?
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