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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You fail, or you go from my words in any partickler, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate.
-- "What's the matter now?"
-- "What's the matter now?"
-- No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.
-- A little redness or a little matter of Bone, here or there, what does it signify to Me?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' thought the young man, 'it is no hard matter to keep that advice.'
-- While he was trying his luck in milking, and managing the matter very clumsily, the uneasy beast began to think him very troublesome; and at last gave him such a kick on the head as knocked him down; and there he lay a long while senseless.
-- 'What is the matter with you, my man?'
-- 'Pray, my good lady,' said the ass, 'what's the matter with you?
-- They disputed about it for a time, but as they were weary they let the matter rest, and their eyes closed once more.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants ap-pointed for that purpose.
-- And, when the matter was debated in council, the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion.
-- After the common saluta-tions were over, observing his lordship's countenance full of concern, and inquiring into the reason, he desired 'I would hear him with patience, in a matter that highly concerned my honour and my life.'
-- Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The paneled walls of that apartment were once painted some color, now a matter of conjecture, for the surface is incrusted with accumulated layers of grimy deposit, which cover it with fantastic outlines.
-- You may survey its surface and describe it; but no matter how numerous and painstaking the toilers in this sea, there will always be lonely and unexplored regions in its depths, caverns unknown, flowers and pearls and monsters of the deep overlooked or forgotten by the divers of literature.
-- But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her "mamma," and put his arm round her waist, a piece of flattery perhaps not appreciated to the full!The worthy woman might imagine this to be an easy feat; but, as a matter of fact, no arm but Vautrin's was long enough to encircle her.
-- Vauquer (_nee_ de Conflans), who, as a matter of fact, had seen forty-eight summers, though she would only own to thirty-nine of them--Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Besides, itdon't matter much.
-- The upshot of the matter was that every planter agreed to pay for equipping his own sons and a certainnumber of the others, but the manner of handling the arrangements was such that the less wealthy members of the outfitcould accept horses and uniforms without offense to their honor.
-- Scarlett knew from experience that, if Mammy'scuriosity were not immediately satisfied, she would take up the matter with Ellen, and then Scarlett would be forced toreveal everything to her mother, or think up some plausible lie.
-- Scarlett turned away from Mammy with studied nonchalance, thankful that her face had been unnoticed inMammy's preoccupation with the matter of the shawl.
-- When Mammy returned she would resume her lectureon Scarlett's breach of hospitality, and Scarlett felt that she could not endure prating about such a trivial matter whenher heart was breaking.
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