matter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 物质， 物体； 毛病， 麻烦； 事情v. 有关系， 要紧，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course and in truth it was something very like it in that house.
-- 'Why, what was the matter with him.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I would hold a pretty wager, sir, that a House like Tellson and Company was flourishing, a matter of fifty, not to speak of fifteen years ago?'
-- 'Pray,' said Mr. Lorry, in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplica-tory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: 'pray control your agitation a matter of business.
-- 'A matter of business.
-- Regard it as a matter of busi-ness-business that must be done.
-- 'A-a matter of business.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worthy man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house, for there was still a light in the window; but he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds, and so very considerately he left the matter alone.
-- In a few seconds the watchman had done the fifty-two thousand of our miles up to the moon, which, as every-one knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than our earth; and is, so we should say, as soft as newly-fallen snow.
-- The matter of which it was built was just as soft, and formed similar towers, and domes, and pil-lars, transparent and rocking in the thin air; while above his head our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball.
-- Oh, how I long, how I suf-fer!I do not know myself what is the matter with me!'
-- There's nothing the matter with me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, you do as I told you," he said, softening his words with a smile, and with a brief explanation of his view of the matter he turned away from the papers, and said: "So do it that way, if you please, Zahar Nikititch."
-- And the professor had promptly appeared to argue the matter out.
-- What's the matter with you?
-- Everyone with whom the princess had chanced to discuss the matter said the same thing: "Mercy on us, it's high time in our day to cast off all that old-fashioned business.
-- "There's something the matter with him," thought Countess Nordston, glancing at his stern, serious face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coal-mines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year.
-- This the director refused, as the matter concerned the London office, which alone could legally deliver the warrant.
-- There's still a matter of fifty miles to be laid from here to Allahabad, where the line begins again."
-- Looking at the matter from every point of view, it did not seem to him impossible that, by some mistake, the man might have embarked on the Carnatic at the last moment; and this was also Aouda's opinion, who regretted very much the loss of the worthy fellow to whom she owed so much.
-- "I know I see," repeated Passepartout; "but it would be, if not more prudent, since that word displeases you, at least more natural ""Who!What!What's the matter with this fellow?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where he got them did not matter to him; figures in the daily papers, in the census report, or in the Miscellany Column of the Sanctification Herald were equally valid.
-- But no matter what they thought, they all ground at learning the lists of names which enable a man to crawl through examinations and become an Educated Person, with a market value of five dollars an hour.
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