contingency是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 事故， 意外，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- **The sperm whale, as with all other species of the Leviathan, but unlike most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a gestation which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but one at a time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an Esau and Jacob: a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats, curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves extend upwards from that.
-- How glad and how grateful the relief from this unnatural hallucination of the night, and the fatal contingency of being brought by the lee!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you have,' returned the follower, wisely reserving himself for any favourable contingency that might occur, 'we must make up for it next time, that's all.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shutters were not closed, nor was any blind or curtain drawn over the window, neither robbery nor observation being a contingency which could do much injury to the occupant of the domicile.
-- For several years the stream had not spouted so far from the tower as it was doing on this night, and such a contingency had been over-looked.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she turned ironically away, because she knew that the fight had been between Gerald and herself and that the presence of the third party was a mere contingency an inevitable contingency perhaps, but a contingency none the less.
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