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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This mystery puzzled me.
-- What was, then, the mystery of this submarine craft, of which the whole world vainly sought an explanation?
-- For a whole hour was I deep in these reflections, seeking to pierce this mystery so interesting to me.
-- Besides, this mystery must necessarily be solved, and before long; for, upon an order from Captain Nemo, the engine, increasing its propelling power, made the screw turn more rapidly.
-- Of what had passed during the night they were as ignorant as I was, and to penetrate this mystery I only reckoned upon the chances of the future.
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：
-- "I mean she is the flowering mystery of the death-process, yes," he replied.
-- We fall from the connection with life and hope, we lapse from pure integral being, from creation and liberty, and we fall into the long, long African process of purely sensual understanding, knowledge in the mystery of dissolution.
-- The white races, having the arctic north behind them, the vast abstraction of ice and snow, would fulfil a mystery of ice-destructive knowledge, snow-abstract annihilation.
-- Whereas the West Africans, controlled by the burning death-abstraction of the Sahara, had been fulfilled in sun-destruction, the putrescent mystery of sun-rays.
-- It was the strange mystery of his life-motion, there, at the back of the thighs, down the flanks.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up to this, I had refrained from forcing them, largely because of the mystery on the other side.
-- "So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, "Look out for squalls when you find it," and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.
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