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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so saying Mrs Jarley produced another announcement, wherein it was stated, that, in consequence of numerous inquiries at the wax-work door, and in consequence of crowds having been disappointed in obtaining admission, the Exhibition would be continued for one week longer, and would re-open next day.
-- As their utmost exertions had not enabled them to overhear a word of the interview, however, in consequence of a quarrel for precedence, which, though limited of necessity to pushes and pinches and such quiet pantomime, had lasted the whole time, they hurried him down to the office to hear his account of the conversation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The merchant Smelkoff, according to the prosecutor, was a type of the great, pure Russian, with his broad nature, who, in consequence of his trusting nature and generosity, had become a victim of a gang of corrupt people, into whose hands he had fallen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first time I began to realise an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.
-- And yet, come to think, it is a logical consequence enough.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The consequence of this was that it tickled her ear very much, and quite took off her thoughts from the unhappiness of the poor little creature.
-- They hadn't gone much farther before the blade of one of the oars got fast in the water and wouldn't come out again (so Alice explained it afterwards), and the consequence was that the handle of it caught her under the chin, and, in spite of a series of little shrieks of 'Oh, oh, oh!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed.
-- Hands, who was not so far up, was in consequence nearer to the ship and fell between me and the bulwarks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- FROM LATITUDE 47脗掳 24' TO LONGITUDE 17脗掳 28'In consequence of the storm, we had been thrown eastward once more.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm afraid, Mrs. Heathcliff, the door must bear the consequence of your servants' leisure attendance: I had hard work to make them hear me.
-- Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!A sad pity I must beware how I cause her to regret her choice.'
-- A man's life is of more consequence than one evening's neglect of the horses: somebody must go,' murmured Mrs. Heathcliff, more kindly than I expected.
-- I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her.
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