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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I am conscious always of power and de-sign.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a matter of general knowledge that the three girls were very fond of one another, and supported each oth-er in every way; it was even said that the two elder ones had made certain sacrifices for the sake of the idol of the household, Aglaya.
-- I have quite another matter on hand.'
-- Excuse me, prince, but we had better make this matter clear, once for all.
-- Although he had not quite cured him, he had greatly improved his condition; and now, at last, at the prince's own desire, and because of a certain matter which came to the ears of the latter, Schneider had despatched the young man to Russia.
-- Of course we will settle this little matter another time, and if you are the upright, honest man you look, I anticipate very little trouble between us on that score.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions.'
-- Achilles and I are quarrelling about this girl, in which matter I was the first to offend; if we can be of one mind again, the Trojans will not stave off destruction for a day.
-- Go sit with Alex-andrus yourself; henceforth be goddess no longer; never let your feet carry you back to Olympus; worry about him and look after him till he make you his wife, or, for the matter of that, his slave but me?
-- Have it your own way then; for I would not have this matter become a bone of con-tention between us.
-- Let none of you neither goddess nor god try to cross me, but obey me every one of you that I may bring this matter to an end.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And no laughing matter to them as had the doing for him, as I had my sister being took up with her little ones so much.
-- She told him she had mentioned the matter to the postman, and that the carrier could bring them over on the morrow.
-- Yet another view explained the entire matter by regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic.
-- And I had hardly worked and thought about the matter six months before light came through one of the meshes suddenly blindingly!I found a general principle of pigments and refraction a formula, a geometrical expression involving four dimensions.
-- "You know the red colouring matter of blood; it can be made white colourless and remain with all the functions it has now!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The matter sounded as though it ended in blows, but in that I thought my ears were mistaken.
-- 'I always thought,' he said deliberately, with a certain accentuation of his flavouring of lisp, 'that there was something the matter with his ears, from the way he covered them.
-- Moreau took the matter even more seriously than Mont-gomery, and I need scarcely say that I was affected by their evident consternation.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'O Akela, and ye the Free People,' he purred, 'I have no right in your assembly, but the Law of the Jungle says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new cub, the life of that cub may be bought at a price.
-- But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack, a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten, I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye.
-- That matter is with me; and that we may see the matter more plainly, I, the man, have brought here a little of the Red Flower which ye, dogs, fear.'
-- It was a serious matter for him.
-- The victory is only a matter of quick-ness of eye and quickness of foot snake's blow against mongoose's jump and as no eye can follow the motion of a snake's head when it strikes, this makes things much more wonderful than any magic herb.
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