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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one serious consequence must come out of this revelation; no one had thought of it yet except Mary Grant.
-- I thought that in consequence of fresh arrangements, you were to sail over to New Zealand, and that I was to wait for you on the east coast of the island.
-- In consequence of this, when the quartermaster was being taken back to his cabin, the sailors met him with violent menaces.
-- The head of the vessel was in consequence turned toward it immediately.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was esteemed and even loved by people of consequence in society, whose example in receiving her was therefore followed by others.
-- 'Kislorodoff told me all this with a sort of exaggerated devilmay-care negligence, and as though he did me great honour by talking to me so, because it showed that he con-sidered me the same sort of exalted Nihilistic being as himself, to whom death was a matter of no consequence whatever, either way.
-- The latter was describing in eloquent words how, in consequence of recent legislation, he was obliged to sell a beautiful estate in the N. province, not because he wanted ready money in fact, he was obliged to sell it at half its value.
-- We may remark here that not only the Epanchins them-selves, but all who had anything to do with them, thought it right to break with the prince in consequence of his con-duct.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a curious thing, by the bye, for which I am quite unable to account, that these weird creatures the females, I mean had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed in consequence a more than human regard for the decency and decorum of extensive costume.
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：
-- The scout resumed his post in ad-vance, though his steps, after he had thrown a safe distance between himself and his enemies, were more deliberate than in their previous march, in consequence of his utter ignorance of the localities of the surrounding woods.
-- As they proceeded, the scout ascertained that his compan-ion found access to Uncas, under privilege of his imaginary infirmity, aided by the favor he had acquired with one of the guards, who, in consequence of speaking a little Eng-lish, had been selected by David as the subject of a religious conversion.
-- Here the struggle was protracted, arduous and seemingly of doubtful issue; the Delawares, though none of them fell, beginning to bleed freely, in consequence of the disadvantage at which they were held.
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：
-- He was never satisfied with what he had done; it seemed to him of no consequence compared with the vision that obsessed his mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clouds of sand, which otherwise would have been insupportable, from being received behind, did not in consequence impede their progress.
-- This was in fact the exact shape of the island, which it is of consequence to know, and a tolerably correct map of it was immediately drawn by the reporter.
-- But the next day, by taking the exact hour of the rising and setting of the sun, and by marking its position between this rising and setting, he reckoned to fix the north of the island exactly, for, in consequence of its situation in the Southern Hemisphere, the sun, at the precise moment of its culmination, passed in the north and not in the south, as, in its apparent movement, it seems to do, to those places situated in the Northern Hemisphere.
-- Game of all sorts in consequence abounded at the Chimneys, capybaras, pigeons, agouties, grouse, etc.
-- The first attempts were somewhat crude, but in consequence of the cleverness and intelligence of the workmen, by consulting, and recalling the models which they had seen, and by emulating each other, the possessions of the colony were soon increased by several baskets of different sizes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- Not at all intimidated by this rebuff, but rather sharpened in wits and appetite, Mr Swiveller forwarded the same message to another and more distant eating-house, adding to it by way of rider that the gentleman was induced to send so far, not only by the great fame and popularity its beef had acquired, but in consequence of the extreme toughness of the beef retailed at the obdurant cook's shop, which rendered it quite unfit not merely for gentlemanly food, but for any human consumption.
-- 'That,' said Mrs Jarley in her exhibition tone, as Nell touched a figure at the beginning of the platform, 'is an unfortunate Maid of Honour in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, who died from pricking her finger in consequence of working upon a Sunday.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The consequence of which, I suppose, will be," said Mrs. Dashwood, "since leisure has not promoted your own happiness, that your sons will be brought up to as many pursuits, employments, professions, and trades as Columella's."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All seemed to be seeking their own amusement, regardless of the possible sad consequence to others.
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