clue是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 线索，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
-- And remembering that when they met he had corrected the young man about something he had said that betrayed ignorance, Sergey Ivanovitch found the clue to explain the article.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It gives no clue to where she is; but she is not with him.'
-- Nothing had come of her zealous intervention; nor could I infer,from what he told me, that any clue had ever been obtained, for amoment, to Emily's fate.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And bymeby they got closer and closer, and then they went arm-in-crook, like courting complete hok-hok!like courting complete hok! courting complete " Losing the thread of his narrative at this point simultaneously with his loss of breath, their informant looked up and down the field apparently for some clue to it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am giving you my name like Ariadne's clue of thread to take with you into the labyrinth; make no unworthy use of it," she said, with a queenly glance and curve of her throat; "give it back to me unsullied.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their pronunciation was quick, and the words they uttered, not having any apparent connection with visible objects, I was unable to discover any clue by which I could unravel the mystery of their reference.
-- When I quitted Geneva my first labour was to gain some clue by which I might trace the steps of my fiendish enemy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In the first place," he continued, "there must be a clue to the meaning.
-- Lost in a vast labyrinth, the sinuosities of which spread in every direction, without guide, clue or compass, I knew it was a vain and useless task to attempt flight.
-- His telescope is raised every moment to his eyes, and when he finds nothing to give any clue to our whereabouts, he assumes a Napoleonic attitude and walks anxiously.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately, on the back-board some-body had scribbled little sketches, and the initials, several times repeated: C. S. R. This, however, afforded no clue -until she broke into the hut, and found one of your books, an autobiography of the actress Judith, with your name, Con-stance Stewart Reid, on the front page.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let his children have that clue to what he was.
-- Only the wisdom that holds the clue to all hearts and all mysteries, can surely know to what extent a man, especially a man brought down as this man had been, can impose upon himself.
-- A clue to what had passed between the father and daughter dropped like a heavy stone into the well of Clennam's heart, and swelled the water to his eyes.
-- Can give me some little clue by which to seek him out in the likeliest manner, and either produce him, or establish what has become of him.
-- He could not sufficiently give utterance to his regret that he had not himself found a clue to this.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A slight incident gave Jo the clue to the mystery, she thought, and lively fancy, loving heart did the rest.
-- John saw in a minute that a revolution of some kind was going on, but wisely asked no questions, knowing that Meg was such a transparent little person, she couldn't keep a secret to save her life, and therefore the clue would soon appear.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Can we, then, by the citation of some of those instances wherein this thing of whiteness though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful, but nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however modified; can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us to the hidden cause we seek?
-- Pity if there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders!There's a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist hark!By Jove, I have it!Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter; and now I'll read it off, straight out of the book.
-- A significant illustration of the fact, again and again repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master Bates, apparently much delighted with his commission, took the cleft stick: and led Oliver into an adjacent kitchen, where there were two or three of the beds on which he had slept before; and here, with many uncontrollable bursts of laughter, he produced the identical old suit of clothes which Oliver had so much congratulated himself upon leaving off at Mr. Brownlow's; and the accidental display of which, to Fagin, by the Jew who purchased them, had been the very first clue received, of his whereabout.
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