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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These circum-stances threw a haze of mystery round the man.
-- came out of the lump of mystery opposite.
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：
-- 'No honest man will deny it,' said the scout, a little net-tled at the implied distrust of his explanation of the mystery of the tides; 'and I grant that it is true on the small scale, and where the land is level.
-- It was evident that his momentary weakness had vanished with the explanation of a mystery which his own experience had not served to fathom; and though he now felt all the realities of their actual condition, that he was prepared to meet them with the energy of his hardy nature.
-- But the rifle of Uncas was deliberately raised toward the heavens, directing the eyes of his companions to a point, where the mystery was immediately explained.
-- 'You have no warranty for such an audacious doctrine, nor any covenant to support it,' cried David who was deep-ly tinctured with the subtle distinctions which, in his time, and more especially in his province, had been drawn around the beautiful simplicity of revelation, by endeavoring to penetrate the awful mystery of the divine nature, supply-ing faith by self-sufficiency, and by consequence, involving those who reasoned from such human dogmas in absurdi-ties and doubt; 'your temple is reared on the sands, and the first tempest will wash away its foundation.
-- The clamor of many voices soon announced that a party approached, who might be expected to communicate some intelligence that would explain the mystery of the novel surprise.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
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：
-- I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice.
-- Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.
-- Because he painted the trees I see about me every day, the cocoa-nuts, the banyans, the flamboyants, the alligator-pears, I have seen them ever since differently, as though there were in them a spirit and a mystery which I am ever on the point of seizing and which forever escapes me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was some mystery there.
-- He wished to penetrate the mystery of that submarine combat, and to ascertain what monster could have given the dugong so strange a wound.
-- Now, I feel sure that there is some mystery there, which, doubtless, we shall discover some day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had only come to know the fact through the innocence of the child, and though the old man was by at the time, and saw my undisguised surprise, he had preserved a strange mystery upon the subject and offered no word of explanation.
-- 'And that,' said Mr Brass, clapping his hands once, with an emphasis, 'explains the mystery of the key!'
-- A group of idle urchins had taken possession of the door-steps; some were plying the knocker and listening with delighted dread to the hollow sounds it spread through the dismantled house; others were clustered about the keyhole, watching half in jest and half in earnest for 'the ghost,' which an hour's gloom, added to the mystery that hung about the late inhabitants, had already raised.
-- He imparted to her the mystery of going the odd man or plain Newmarket for fruit, ginger-beer, baked potatoes, or even a modest quencher, of which Miss Brass did not scruple to partake.
-- I find myself suddenly checked and stopped short, in the execution of my design, by a mystery which I cannot penetrate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the world appeared to him as a mystery which he joyfully and enthusiastically tried to solve; now, everything in this world was plain and simple, and was determined by those conditions of life in which he found himself.
-- With a faint heart and with horror at the thought that he might find Maslova in an inebriate condition and persistently antagonistic, and at the mystery which she was to him, Nekhludoff rang the bell and inquired of the inspector about Maslova.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I determined to put the thought of my Time Machine and the mystery of the bronze doors under the sphinx, as much as possible in a corner of memory, until my growing knowledge would lead me back to them in a natural way.
-- I had now a clue to the import of these wells, to the ventilating towers, to the mystery of the ghosts; to say nothing of a hint at the meaning of the bronze gates and the fate of the Time Machine!And very vaguely there came a suggestion towards the solution of the economic problem that had puzzled me.
-- I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
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