minus是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. /prep. 负的, 负号, 减，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one, by the by, and then still minus his trowsers he hunted up his boots.
-- It is also very curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb.
-- Aye, minus a leg, that's all.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is much simpler, and far more likely, to believe that my death is needed the death of an insignificant atom in or-der to fulfil the general harmony of the universe in order to make even some plus or minus in the sum of existence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue a Faun, or some such figure, minus the head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He swung himself out of the carriage to the ground and she suddenly thought how nice it was to see a man whowas whole, who was not minus eyes or limbs, or white with pain or yellow with malaria, and who looked well fed andhealthy.
-- Uncle Henry was minus hisumbrella and carpetbag now, and his fat stomach as well.
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