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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You may be quite at ease,' said Mr. Gradgrind, calmly; he worked out the whole matter like a sum: 'you may be quite at ease, Jupe, on that score.
-- 'Now, Stephen,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'what's the matter with you?'
-- 'Banks, I know, are always suspicious, and officially must be,' said the stranger, whose lightness and smoothness of speech were pleasant likewise; suggesting matter far more sensible and humorous than it ever contained which was perhaps a shrewd device of the founder of this numerous sect, whosoever may have been that great man: 'therefore I may observe that my letter here it is is from the member for this place Gradgrind whom I have had the pleasure of knowing in London.'
-- 'That sum of money, young Tom locked in his safe, not a very strong safe, but that's no matter now.
-- I didn't mince the matter with him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now as I had a strong conviction that the Runic alphabet and dialect were simply an invention to mystify poor human nature, I was delighted to find that my uncle knew as much about the matter as I did--which was nothing.
-- It is a matter of great doubt to me now, to what violent measures my uncle's impetuosity might have led him, had not the clock struck two, and our old French cook called out to let us know that dinner was on the table.
-- To him a voyage to Iceland was merely a matter of course.
-- It was not an easy matter to lose oneself in the two streets of Reykjavik; I had therefore no need to ask my way.
-- It was merely the house of a peasant, but in the matter of hospitality, it was worthy of being the palace of a king.
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：
-- We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
-- But as a matter of fact, it was some old impression of authority on her own mind or soul that she could not get rid of.
-- The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he WASan outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside.
-- It's all utterly sense-less and pointless; a matter of misplaced curiosity.'
-- 'As a matter of fact,' said the lean and freckled Tommy Dukes, who looked much more Irish than May, who was pale and rather fat: 'As a matter of fact, Hammond, you have a strong property instinct, and a strong will to self-as-sertion, and you want success.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What with my rheumatic affection, and what with its attendant debility or nervous weakness names are of no matter now I have lost the use of my limbs.
-- But as 'them two clever ones' Mrs Affery's perpetual reference, in whom her personality was swallowed up were agreed to accept Little Dorrit as a matter of course, she had nothing for it but to follow suit.
-- No matter through what mistakes and discouragements, what ridicule (not unkindly meant, but deeply felt) of her youth and little figure, what humble consciousness of her own babyhood and want of strength, even in the matter of lifting and carrying; through how much weariness and hopelessness, and how many secret tears; she drudged on, until recognised as useful, even indispensable.
-- The sister was so apt a pupil, and the dancing-master had such abundant leisure to bestow upon her (for it took him a matter of ten weeks to set to his creditors, lead off, turn the Commissioners, and right and left back to his professional pursuits), that wonderful progress was made.
-- 'We had better get hold of Amy first of all,' said Tip, referring any difficulty to her as a matter of course.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.'
-- Hannah never forgot to make them, no matter how busy or grumpy she might be, for the walk was long and bleak.
-- Jo glanced over her shoulder, and the little demon she was harboring said in her ear... 'No matter whether she heard or not, let her take care of herself.'
-- Meg meanwhile had apparently forgotten the matter and was absorbed in preparations for her father's return, but all of a sudden a change seemed to come over her, and, for a day or two, she was quite unlike herself.
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