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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will only drag the matter out.
-- "What is the matter with you?"
-- It happens to everybody, and if one is guided by common sense the matter is usually arranged and forgotten, and one lives on like the rest of the world," said Agrippina Petrovna, sternly and seriously.
-- It is no easy matter to handle two thousand people.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IntroductionThe Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
-- Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less scepticism.
-- "In the matter of sepulture, for instance, I could see no signs of crematoria nor anything suggestive of tombs.
-- Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me, for since my arrival on the Time Machine, a matter of a week, no rain had fallen.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't know what's the matter with it!'
-- 'What does it matter where my body happens to be?'
-- At this moment she heard a hoarse laugh at her side, and turned to see what was the matter with the White Queen; but, instead of the Queen, there was the leg of mutton sitting in the chair.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the short and the long of the matter was, that while we could get several who were willing enough to ride to Dr. Livesey's, which lay in another direction, not one would help us to defend the inn.
-- In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.
-- "It doesn't much matter who it was," replied the doctor.
-- "You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board.
-- The cheer followed that was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here there was matter for reflection even to the most impassive man in the world.
-- "I can understand perfectly, sir, that your nets furnish excellent fish for your table; I can understand also that you hunt aquatic game in your submarine forests; but I cannot understand at all how a particle of meat, no matter how small, can figure in your bill of fare."
-- It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with enormous tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent matter ejected from holes pierced around the muzzle.
-- I could observe closely these curious walls, for perpendicularly they were more than 300 yards deep, and our electric sheets lighted up this calcareous matter brilliantly.
-- We had run aground, and in one of those seas where the tides are middling a sorry matter for the floating of the Nautilus.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's a matter of opinion," said Gerald.
-- "As a matter of fact, none of us wants our throat cut, and most other people would like to cut it for us some time or other ""It's a nasty view of things, Gerald," said Birkin, "and no wonder you are afraid of yourself and your own unhappiness."
-- "Surely it isn't a matter of conceit," she cried.
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