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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember laughing at that, and wondering why I laughed.
-- 'Why the devil don't you get out of the way?'
-- Why should a man go on all-fours and drink with his lips?
-- Be-sides, why should we want to shoot you when you have just offered to drown yourself?'
-- 'Why did you set your people onto me when I was in the hut?'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is why he has only killed cattle.
-- Why should I be afraid?'
-- 'But why but why should any wish to kill me?'
-- Why should I fear?
-- That is why I teach him these things, and that is why I hit him, very softly, when he forgets.'
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：
-- 'It can't be denied that your traditions tell you true in both these matters,' said the white man; 'for I have been there, and have seen them, though why water, which is so sweet in the shade, should become bitter in the sun, is an al-teration for which I have never been able to account.'
-- Why should there be bitter words between us?
-- 'Why so soon disheartened!'
-- It may be as you say,' he continued, reverting to the purport of Heyward's last remark; 'and the greater the reason why we should cut our steaks, and let the carcass drive down the stream, or we shall have the pack howling along the cliffs, begrudging every mouthful we swallow.
-- 'Nature has made an impenetrable barrier on this side,' he continued, pointing down the perpendicular declivity into the dark current before he dropped the blanket; 'and as you know that good men and true are on guard in front I see no reason why the advice of our honest host should be disregarded.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-established Dutch communities.
-- The bridge became more than ever an object of superstitious awe; and that may be the reason why the road has been altered of late years, so as to approach the church by the border of the mill-pond.
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：
-- Some of them were dressed fashionably, and they said they couldn't for the life of them see why you should be dowdy just because you had written a novel; if you had a neat figure you might as well make the most of it, and a smart shoe on a small foot had never prevented an editor from taking your "stuff."
-- "But why does she want them?"
-- It was the kind of party which makes you wonder why the hostess has troubled to bid her guests, and why the guests have troubled to come.
-- He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
-- I wondered how soon I could decently take my leave, and I asked myself why on earth Mrs. Strickland had allowed me to come.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why had Neb not returned unless hope still detained him?
-- Why had Neb not returned?
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