mystery是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 神秘， 神秘的事物； 神秘小说， 侦探小说，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their pronunciation was quick, and the words they uttered, not having any apparent connection with visible objects, I was unable to discover any clue by which I could unravel the mystery of their reference.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammyfelt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery wasenough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.
-- Why the loveliest of the Robillard daughtersshould marry a loud-voiced, red-faced little man who came hardly up to her ears remained a mystery to all.
-- She likedto believe herself a thing of mystery to men, but she knew Rhett thought her as transparent as glass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This moral mystery seemed too much for the company until Mr. Hubble tersely solved it by saying, "Naterally wicious."
-- Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country.
-- Words cannot tell what a sense I had, at the same time, of the dreadful mystery that he was to me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- And be-cause I had some skill in the faculty, I would, in gratitude to his honour, let him know the whole mystery and method by which they proceed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the eighteen denominations?
-- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections.
-- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
-- Out of what mystery he came back to his usual life, and to places that he knew, he was unable to consider; but he was back in those places by some means, and with this condemnation upon him, that he was never, in this world or the next, through all the unimaginable ages of eternity, to look on Rachael's face or hear her voice.
-- How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This apparently astounding acoustic mystery is easily explainable by simple natural laws; it arose from the conductibility of the rock.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wood still had some of the mystery of wild, old England; but Sir Geoffrey's cuttings during the war had given it a blow.
-- The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening driz-zle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed flowers.
-- And afterwards, when they had been quite still, the wom-an had to uncover the man again, to look at the mystery of the phallos.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to her,' pursued her father, 'the sudden loss of her little picture and playfellow, and her early association with that mystery in which we all have our equal share, but which is not often so forcibly presented to a child, has necessarily had some influence on her character.
-- 'Before I say anything else,' Little Dorrit began, sitting before the pale fire, and raising her eyes again to the face which in its harmonious look of interest, and pity, and protection, she felt to be a mystery far above her in degree, and almost removed beyond her guessing at; 'may I tell you something, sir?'
-- Once more he put out his hand frankly to poor Flora; once more poor Flora couldn't accept it frankly, found it worth nothing openly, must make the old intrigue and mystery of it.
-- The dark mystery with which Flora now enshrouded herself might have stopped other fingers than the nimble fingers that worked near her.
-- Excuse me for reminding you in her hearing I must say it that you were a mystery to all of us, and had nothing in common with any of us when she unfortunately fell in your way.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions con-cealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
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