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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And why this powerful organisation?"
-- "Only I soon found out why my harpoon had not entered its skin and was blunted."
-- "If you, sir, mean to face the sharks, I do not see why your faithful servant should not face them with you."
-- Why had our incomprehensible guide led us to the bottom of this submarine crypt?
-- I admit I could not see yet why this history should interest me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why had she wanted to submit herself to it, did she still want to submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced countryside?
-- "I myself can never see why one should take account of people, just because they happen to be in the room with one: why should I know they are there?"
-- "Why indeed, why indeed!"
-- "There's nothing to imagine, that's why they don't exist."
-- Why seek to draw a brand and a curse across the life that had caused the accident?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though WHY was beyond my comprehension.
-- With this intention I asked Mrs. Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange, and preferred living in a situation and residence so much inferior.
-- Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them; and Catherine, on her part, had no idea why her father should be crosser and less patient in his ailing condition than he was in his prime.
-- Why did you speak to him, Edgar?
-- He had a terror of Earnshaw's reputation, and shrunk from encountering him; and yet he was always received with our best attempts at civility: the master himself avoided offending him, knowing why he came; and if he could not be gracious, kept out of the way.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, you have a good place under the cabin; why not put them there? first point.
-- Why not give them the berths here beside the cabin? second point."
-- If they all go, why we'll fight the ship.
-- And I'll not deny neither but what some of my people was shook maybe all was shook; maybe I was shook myself; maybe that's why I'm here for terms.
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