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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No matter how much bad beer he drank, Clif was never much more intoxicated than in his normal state.
-- To say that one had "gone into town last night" was a matter for winks and leers.
-- He reverently accepted everything, no matter how contradictory to everything else, that his medical instructors told him, but this killing of animals--he hated it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a different matter when he met with acquaintances or with former fellow stu-dents, whom, indeed, he disliked meeting at any time.
-- Hence the pot-house!Honoured sir, a month ago Mr. Le-beziatnikov gave my wife a beating, and my wife is a very different matter from me!Do you understand?
-- 'Honoured sir, honoured sir,' cried Marmeladov recov-ering himself 'Oh, sir, perhaps all this seems a laughing matter to you, as it does to others, and perhaps I am only worrying you with the stupidity of all the trivial details of my home life, but it is not a laughing matter to me.
-- Of that we have no good reason to doubt, though it must be admitted the matter has been ar-ranged in great haste.
-- The matter dropped for the time, but Dounia is thinking of nothing else now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's a matter of opinion.'
-- 'Itdoes not matter when,' he returned.
-- 150CHAPTER XII Begin life on My Own Account, and Don't Like ItI KNOW enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacityof being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of somesurprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrownaway at such an age.
-- Dick is a sort of distant connection ofmine; it doesn't matter how; I needn't enter into that.
-- 'Quite so,' returned the other, '-would only have to say, that shewanted such and such a thing to be so and so; and it would be soand so, as a matter of course.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me,' said Emma, 'and a very considerable one that I made the match myself.
-- 'I know that you all love her really too well to be unjust or unkind; but excuse me, Mr. Knightley, if I take the liberty (I consider myself, you know, as having somewhat of the privilege of speech that Emma's mother might have had) the liberty of hinting that I do not think any possible good can arise from Harriet Smith's intimacy being made a matter of much discussion among you.
-- Mr. Weston, I dare say, has been telling you exactly how the matter stands?'
-- It was a very useful note, for it supplied them with fresh matter for thought and conversa-tion during the rest of their lonely evening.
-- He was delighted with every thing; admired Hartfield sufficiently for Mr. Wood-house's ear; and when their going farther was resolved on, confessed his wish to be made acquainted with the whole village, and found matter of commendation and interest much oftener than Emma could have supposed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here going through the plantation, and all down the hill," said Farmer Oak, with an aspect excessively knowing with regard to some matter in his mind, as he gazed at a remote point in the direction named, and then turned back to meet his colloquist's eyes.
-- Jacob stooped to the God-forgive-me, which was a two-handled tall mug standing in the ashes, cracked and charred with heat: it was rather furred with extraneous matter about the outside, especially in the crevices of the handles, the innermost curves of which may not have seen daylight for several years by reason of this encrustation thereon formed of ashes accidentally wetted with cider and baked hard; but to the mind of any sensible drinker the cup was no worse for that, being incontestably clean on the inside and about the rim.
-- The most mysterious matter connected with her absence indeed, the only thing which gives me serious alarm is that she was seen to go out of the house by Maryann with only her indoor working gown on not even a bonnet."
-- "The next matter is, have you heard anything of Fanny?"
-- If nobody had regarded her, she would have taken the matter indifferently such cases had occurred.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
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