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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody contradicted him, as he was supposed to know; but Lady Helena exclaimed, "What does it matter about the bottle, if we don't know where it comes from?"
-- As a cousin of Glenarvan, he lived in Malcolm Castle, and as a major he went as a matter of course with the DUNCAN.
-- repeated John Mangles, beginning to suspect how the matter stood.
-- "Then it would be by no means a matter of indifference to you, to visit another country instead."
-- "Beside," resumed Lord Glenarvan, with perfect gravity, "when people are going to the Indies it doesn't matter much whether it is to the East or West."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed, but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his ex-citement had no justification.
-- 'Put into plain words, the matter is this,' said he.
-- 'You put the matter more flippantly, Mr. Holmes, than you would probably do if you were brought into personal contact with these things.
-- On the whole I incline to the latter view, since the matter was evidently important, and it is unlikely that the composer of such a letter would be careless.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No matter how young, it is one of the things she wholly comprehends.
-- There is an indescribably faint line in the matter of man's apparel which somehow divides for her those who are worth glancing at and those who are not.
-- To him the presence or absence of his wife's sister was a matter of indifference.
-- She was pleased to see her in a way but reflected her husband's point of view in the matter of work.
-- This place she decided to enter, no matter what.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.
-- I knowed what was the matter now.
-- What's the matter with 'em?'
-- I knowed what the matter was.
-- 'What's the matter with you, Jim?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor old fellow did not know how to defend himself, but wept and wailed like a child and said between his sobs: "Ungrateful boy!To think I tried so hard to make you a well-behaved Marionette!I deserve it, however!I should have given the matter more thought."
-- "What's the matter now?"
-- No matter how he tried, it would not go through the door.
-- After all, the life of a Marionette has grown very tiresome to me and I want to become a boy, no matter how hard it is.
-- No matter how he pulled and tugged, he could not pull it out.
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