clause是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 条款; 从句，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recollect,as the wind and water began to sound fainter in my ears, putting ashort clause into my prayers, petitioning that I might grow up tomarry little Em'ly, and so dropping lovingly asleep.
-- She named no names, she said; let themthe cap fitted, wear it; but spies, intruders, and informers,especially in widders' weeds (this clause was underlined), she hadever accustomed herself to look down upon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This last clause being delivered with extraordinary pathos, elicited a corresponding murmer from the hearers, stimulated by which the lady went on to remark that if such a husband was cross and unreasonable with such a wife, then 'If he is!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The verdict was reached not because the majority of the jury agreed to it, but first because the justiciary had so drawn out his speech that he failed to properly instruct the jury; second, because the colonel's story about his brother-in-law's wife was tedious; third, because Nekhludoff was so excited that he did not notice the omission of the clause limiting the intent in the answer, and thought that the words "without intent to rob" negatively answered the question; fourth, because Peter Gerasimovich was not in the room when the foreman read the questions and answers, and chiefly because the jury were tired out and were anxious to get away, and therefore agreed to the verdict which it was easiest to reach.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was but a word or two that I could catch, and yet I gathered some important news, for besides other scraps that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was audible: "Not another man of them'll jine."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Clennam's back was turned while he spoke, and thenceforth to the end of the interview, he kept those glittering eyes of his that were too near together, upon him, and evidently saw in the very carriage of the head, as he passed with his braggart recklessness from clause to clause of what he said, that he was saying nothing which Clennam did not already know.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After which I caused a procuration to be drawn, empowering him to be the receiv-er of the annual profits of my plantation: and appointing my partner to account with him, and make the returns, by the usual fleets, to him in my name; and by a clause in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidores a year to him during his life, out of the effects, and fifty moidores a year to his son after him, for his life: and thus I requited my old man.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for him, the marriage clause did not dwell in his mind.
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