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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall sift the matter to the bottom, and put a stop to such pranks at once.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
-- Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
-- I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough, with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast.
-- I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
-- Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- It was no very difficult matter for the boy to call tears into his eyes.
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
-- But it doesn't much matter whether you do or don't, for you can't sleep anywhere else.
-- 'Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
-- They insist also on my seeing Mr. Jones therefore do not be alarmed if you should hear of his having been to me and, excepting a sore throat and headache, there is not much the matter with me. Yours, etc.'
-- It was necessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such occa-sions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs. Bennet to find comfort in staying home at any period of her life.
-- This matter may be considered, therefore, as finally settled.'
-- Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more in-terest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live; and Sir William gave it as his decided opinion, that whenever Mr. Collins should be in possession of the Longbourn estate, it would be highly expedient that both he and his wife should make their appearance at St. James's.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked him what was the matter with him.
-- 'No matter for that,' said I again; 'our guns will fright them that we do not kill.'
-- All this while I had no thought of what the matter really was, but stood trembling with the horror of the sight, ex-pecting every moment when the three prisoners should be killed; nay, once I saw one of the villains lift up his arm with a great cutlass, as the seamen call it, or sword, to strike one of the poor men; and I expected to see him fall every mo-ment; at which all the blood in my body seemed to run chill in my veins.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them.
-- The arrival of a new family in the country was always a matter of joy to him, and in every point of view he was charmed with the inhabitants he had now procured for his cottage at Barton.
-- You have already ascertained Mr. Willoughby's opinion in almost every matter of importance.
-- Margaret related something to her the next day, which placed this matter in a still clearer light.
-- When Mrs. Jennings attacked her one evening at the park, to give the name of the young man who was Elinor's particular favourite, which had been long a matter of great curiosity to her, Margaret answered by looking at her sister, and saying, "I must not tell, may I, Elinor?"
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