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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not a trace," replied the reporter; "besides, if by chance you had met with some deliverer there, just in the nick of time, why should he have abandoned you after having saved you from the waves?"
-- Now, why did he wish for this agent?
-- "But why so many precautions?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no reason, however, why I should refrain from seeing the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone, and as it was not improbable that if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity, I avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate, and thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were.
-- 'Why dost thou sob?'
-- I remained standing on the spot where he had left me, unwilling to depart, and yet unknowing why I should loiter there.
-- Why should a grandson and grandfather peg away at each other with mutual wiolence when all might be bliss and concord.
-- Why not jine hands and forgit it?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- -- _Idem, v. 22._ "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye!"
-- This was the reason why Nekhludoff considered that he had no right, even if he desired, to ask for the hand of Korchagin.
-- If he were asked why he considered himself above the majority of people he would not be able to answer, as there was nothing in his life transcending the commonplace.
-- "I would like to know why did Kartinkin invite Maslova only, and not other girls?"
-- If Nekhludoff were clearly conscious of his love for Katiousha; especially if it were sought to persuade him that he could and must not link his fate to that of the girl, he would very likely have decided in his plumb-line mind that there was no reason why he should not marry her, no matter who she was, provided he loved her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But some philosophical people have been asking why three dimensions particularly why not another direction at right angles to the other three? and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimensional geometry.
-- "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?
-- And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?"
-- He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?"
-- "I sat up in the freshness of the morning, trying to remember how I had got there, and why I had such a profound sense of desertion and despair.
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：
-- cried a Daisy: 'that's why its branches are called boughs!'
-- 'Why all round her head, of course,' the Rose replied.
-- 'I don't know what you mean by your way,' said the Queen: 'all the ways about here belong to me but why did you come out here at all?'
-- 'Don't tease so,' said Alice, looking about in vain to see where the voice came from; 'if you're so anxious to have a joke made, why don't you make one yourself?'
-- If not, why do things have names at all?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have often wondered since why he should have carried about these shells with him in his wandering, guilty, and hunted life.
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