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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And why not?"
-- Unfortunately, to reach them would necessitate a march of one hundred and thirty miles south; and this was why Thalcave thought it best to go first to Guamini, as it was not only much nearer, but also on the direct line of route.
-- If all cavaliers wouldn't make good sailors, there is no reason why all sailors should not make good horsemen.
-- Why Glenarvan proposed this was, that the banks of the Guamini seemed to be the general rendezvous of all the game in the surrounding plains.
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：
-- 'Why so?'
-- 'Why was it bad?'
-- For both these reasons I thought that I was justified in telling rather less than I knew, since no practical good could result from it, but with you there is no reason why I should not be perfectly frank.
-- If you hold these views, why have you come to consult me at all?
-- 'Why should he not go to the home of his fathers?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course my mother couldn't do anything she's too old and whatever brother Senka says is law for her!But why couldn't he let me know?
-- Why didn't I die there on the spot?
-- Then he suddenly turned to the prince: 'Prince, I don't know why I have taken a fancy to you; perhaps because I met you just when I did.
-- 'Then why did you say you had business with the general?'
-- Perhaps that is partly why I am so talkative this morning.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- 'Why are you here,' said he, 'daughter of ae-gis-bearing Jove?
-- Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said, 'My son, why are you weeping?
-- Achilles drew a deep sigh and said, 'You know it; why tell you what you know well already?
-- When she marked the beautiful neck of the goddess, her lovely bosom, and sparkling eyes, she marvelled at her and said, 'Goddess, why do you thus beguile me?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why haven't you prepared my meals and answered my bell?
-- That's no reason why I should be poked to pieces by every stupid bumpkin in Iping, is it?"
-- Why am I assaulted by a policeman in this fashion?"
-- "Then why did you let me go on and tell you all this blarsted stuff, then?
-- Why the deuce was he chasing a tramp?"
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