actual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 实际的； 现实的， 真实的， 目前的，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sulphur spring not being of any actual use to the settlers, they proceeded towards the thick border of the forest, which began some hundred paces off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of them, the actual exhibitor no doubt, was a little merry-faced man with a twinkling eye and a red nose, who seemed to have unconsciously imbibed something of his hero's character.
-- 'Both of you,' he called from the window; for only the actual exhibitor a little fat man prepared to obey the summons.
-- Even when by dint of such inquiries as the utmost vigilance and sagacity could set on foot, we found they had been seen with two poor travelling showmen and in time discovered the men themselves and in time, the actual place of their retreat; even then, we were too late.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time Travelling"I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop.
-- The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation.
-- Now, in this old familiar room, it is more like the sorrow of a dream than an actual loss.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo was evidently acquainted with the existence of this bivalve, and seemed to have a particular motive in verifying the actual state of this tridacne.
-- "You impose actual slavery upon us!"
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：
-- "There's the whole difference in the world," he said, "between the actual sensual being, and the vicious mental-deliberate profligacy our lot goes in for.
-- She is the harlot, the actual harlot of adultery to him.
-- There is the grass, and hares and adders, and the unseen hosts, actual angels that go about freely when a dirty humanity doesn't interrupt them and good pure-tissued demons: very nice."
-- She had her queer, radiant, breathless manner, as if confused by the actual world, unreal to it, having a complete bright world of her self alone.
-- Which, when it comes to actual practice, is not good enough."
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