consequence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 结果， 后果， 影响； 重要性，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- dashed in Mark Clark conclusively, not feeling it to be of any consequence to his opinion that he had only heard about a word and three-quarters of what Joseph had said.
-- "Matthew Moon, ma'am," said a singular framework of clothes with nothing of any consequence inside them, which advanced with the toes in no definite direction forwards, but turned in or out as they chanced to swing.
-- One mouth in each front had been closed by bygone church-wardens as superfluous, and two others were broken away and choked a matter not of much consequence to the wellbeing of the tower, for the two mouths which still remained open and active were gaping enough to do all the work.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of consequence in the quarter, and ask for subscriptions for charitable purposes; she would make little Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author's tickets that one of her boarders sometimes gave her, in July; the whole Eldorado of a little Parisian household rose up before Mme.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he and I were left alone together, he sat with an air upon him of general lying by in consequence of information he possessed, that really was too much for me.
-- Two dismally absurd persons, each ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognized a postboy discharged from the Boar for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms.
-- It was a consequence of his hurt that he spoke so low as to be scarcely audible; therefore he spoke very little.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
-- I took up the two officers in my hands, put them first into my coat-pockets, and then into every other pocket about me, except my two fobs, and another secret pocket, which I had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little nec-essaries that were of no consequence to any but myself.
-- I had as I before observed, one private pocket, which es-caped their search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use for the weakness of mine eyes,) a pocket perspective, and some other little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I did not think myself bound in honour to discover, and I appre-hended they might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession.
-- But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dan- 67gerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to man-age, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
-- The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the pub-lic: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I, who came here to inform the father of the poor girl, Jupe, that she could not be received at the school any more, in consequence of there being practical objections, into which I need not enter, to the reception there of the children of persons so employed, am prepared in these altered circumstances to make a proposal.
-- 'I have come to speak to you, in consequence of what passed just now.
-- Then why doesn't she choose, when I tell her of what consequence it is?
-- You know my origin; and you know that for a good many years of my life I didn't want a shoeing-horn, in consequence of not having a shoe.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had called upon us in consequence of the recommendation of M. Fridriksson.
-- Unfortunately, the consequence was, that I did not understand a word that was said at dinner--a kind of semiofficial reception.
-- But as a natural consequence of this overflow, the depth of the island increased.
-- On Friday, after a night when I began to feel the gnawing agony of thirst, and when in consequence appetite decreased, our little band rose and once more followed the turnings and windings, the ascents and descents, of this interminable gallery.
-- .......... "It is of the utmost consequence that we should know how far we are asunder."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- Mistress Affery looked on at Little Dorrit taking off her homely bonnet in the hall, and at Mr Flintwinch scraping his jaws and contemplating her in silence, as expecting some wonderful consequence to ensue which would frighten her out of her five wits or blow them all three to pieces.
-- Under the latter great wrong, a few suffered dreadfully particularly on Sundays, when they had for some time expected the earth to open and swallow the public up; but which desirable event had not yet occurred, in consequence of some reprehensible laxity in the arrangements of the Universe.
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