whereas是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为conj. 鉴于; 反之，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Could he have followed without deviation the fiftieth parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been about twelve thousand miles; whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods of locomotion, to traverse twenty-six thousand, of which he had, on the 23rd of November, accomplished seventeen thousand five hundred.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My occupation of Peggotty'sspare-room put a constraint upon me, from which he was free: for,knowing how assiduously she attended on Mr. Barkis all day, I didnot like to remain out late at night; whereas Steerforth, lying at theinn, had nothing to consult but his own humour.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Confederates could expect no more reinforcements, whereas the railroad, which the Yankees now held fromTennessee south to the battle line, brought Sherman fresh troops and supplies daily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas I now found Barnard to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats.
-- It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit, that whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time and walked an immense distance, it perceptibly came from a closely contiguous wall.
-- That the place could possibly be, without her, was something my mind seemed unable to compass; and whereas she had seldom or never been in my thoughts of late, I had now the strangest ideas that she was coming towards me in the street, or that she would presently knock at the door.
-- Whereas they were easy of innocent solution apart,--as, for instance, some diner out or diner at home, who had not gone near this watchman's gate, might have strayed to my staircase and dropped asleep there,--and my nameless visitor might have brought some one with him to show him the way,--still, joined, they had an ugly look to one as prone to distrust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.
-- But, imperceptibly, though I held by them fast, Joe's hold upon them began to slacken; and whereas I wondered at this, at first, I soon began to understand that the cause of it was in me, and that the fault of it was all mine.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed propor-tionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the con-70 Gulliver's Travelsfinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.
-- 79 ''That, whereas certain ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, to sue for peace in his majesty's court, he, the said Flestrin, did, like a false traitor, aid, abet, comfort, and divert, the said ambassadors, although he knew them to be servants to a prince who was lately an open enemy to his imperial majesty, and in an open war against his said majesty.
-- This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a cat-alogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours do not contain above one third part of that number.
-- For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health of both must be preserved, and the diseases cured, by the same prescriptions?
-- He said, 'it was common, when two Yahoos discovered 332 Gulliver's Travelssuch a stone in a field, and were contending which of them should be the proprietor, a third would take the advantage, and carry it away from them both;' which my master would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our suits at law; wherein I thought it for our credit not to unde-ceive him; since the decision he mentioned was much more equitable than many decrees among us; because the plain-tiff and defendant there lost nothing beside the stone they contended for: whereas our courts of equity would never have dismissed the cause, while either of them had any thing left.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, whereas the girl was so dark-eyed and dark-haired, that she seemed to receive a deeper and more lustrous colour from the sun, when it shone upon her, the boy was so light-eyed and light-haired that the self-same rays appeared to draw out of him what little colour he ever possessed.
-- Whereas I find,' said Mr. James Harthouse, in conclusion, 'that it is really in several volumes.'
-- 'Whereas your daughter,' proceeded Bounderby, 'is far from being a born lady.
-- You seem to think that I have some animosity against young Mr. Tom; whereas I have none at all.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas the men, in gratitude to the wom-an for the sex experience, let their souls go out to her.
-- Whereas Clifford discovered new channels of publicity, all kinds.
-- Whereas she was left out, distant.
-- Whereas the mass of people oughtn't even to try to think, because they can't.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereas she had put the lump of coarse bread into the swart, scaled, knotted hands of John Baptist (who had scarcely as much nail on his eight fingers and two thumbs as would have made out one for Monsieur Rigaud), with ready confidence; and, when he kissed her hand, had herself passed it caressingly over his face.
-- In a word, it was represented (Clennam called to mind, alone in the ticking parlour) that many people select their models, much as the painters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature), so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.
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