stuff是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 原料; 材料; 素质, 本质; 东西, 物品; vt. 把…装满, 塞进，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I really did not expect it at all; in fact, I suppose it was all stuff and nonsense on the general's part, as usual.
-- Pfu!what abominable stuff it looks!Oh!
-- Now listen and learn; in the first place buy good powder, not damp (they say it mustn't be at all damp, but very dry), some fine kind it is you must ask for PISTOL powder, not the stuff they load cannons with.
-- First, you have to buy the powder, you know; it mustn't be wet, and it mustn't be that coarse stuff that they load cannons with it must be pistol powder.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What!Ain't there any stuff to you.
-- But we will do great things yet!I came on the stuff first at Chesilstowe."
-- After I'd given the stuff to bleach the blood and done certain other things to her, I gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has a "Gam," a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about "spouters" and "blubber-boilers," and such like pretty exclamations.
-- Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been wondering, with his eyes fixed on the magistrates' powder, whether all boards were born with that white stuff on their heads, and were boards from thenceforth on that account.
-- 'Stuff and nonsense!'
-- The old lady made no reply to this; but wiping her eyes first, and her spectacles, which lay on the counterpane, afterwards, as if they were part and parcel of those features, brought some cool stuff for Oliver to drink; and then, patting him on the cheek, told him he must lie very quiet, or he would be ill again.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a little before the great rains just now mentioned that I threw this stuff away, taking no notice, and not so much as remembering that I had thrown anything there, when, about a month after, or thereabouts, I saw some few stalks of something green shooting out of the ground, which I fancied might be some plant I had not seen; but I was surprised, and perfectly astonished, when, after a little longer time, I saw about ten or twelve ears come out, which were perfect green barley, of the same kind as our European - nay, as our English barley.
-- This was a most difficult thing even to think on, for to be sure I had nothing like the necessary thing to make it - I mean fine thin canvas or stuff to searce the meal through.
-- Well, I began this work; and when I be-gan to enter upon it, and calculate how deep it was to be dug, how broad, how the stuff was to be thrown out, I found that, by the number of hands I had, being none but my own, it must have been ten or twelve years before I could have gone through with it; for the shore lay so high, that at the upper end it must have been at least twenty feet deep; so at length, though with great reluctancy, I gave this attempt over also.
-- Alas!there the sor-ry, useless stuff lay; I had no more manner of business for it; and often thought with myself that I would have given a handful of it for a gross of tobacco-pipes; or for a hand-mill to grind my corn; nay, I would have given it all for a sixpen-ny-worth of turnip and carrot seed out of England, or for a handful of peas and beans, and a bottle of ink.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His kindness was not confined to words; for within an hour after he left them, a large basket full of garden stuff and fruit arrived from the park, which was followed before the end of the day by a present of game.
-- Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner!Lord!how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there!Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "His stuff is nearly as bad as 'Dora Thorne,'" concluded Ames.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We used to hop out of the woods and go charging down on hog-drivers and women in carts taking garden stuff to market, but we nev-er hived any of them.
-- Tom Sawyer called the hogs 'ingots,' and he called the turnips and stuff 'julery,' and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.
-- So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies.
-- Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o'clock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents' worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lift-ed a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along.
-- An- other was Friendship's Offering, full of beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn't read the poetry.
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