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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will give him the clue for which he has been seeking.
-- For the moment I could proceed no farther in that direc-tion, but must turn back to that other clue which was to be sought for among the stone huts upon the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked General Epanchin with surprise; and looking curiously around him, he discovered that he alone had no clue to the mystery.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the spring, the horses were turned loose, as has been seen; and, notwithstanding the remoteness and length of their trail, the artifices already named were resorted to, in order to cut off every clue to their place of retreat.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt; I watched her eyes for some tell-tale flash, some hint of dismay or bitterness; I scanned her brow for any passing line that might indicate a settling emotion.
-- When I imagined that on seeing his pictures I should get a clue to the understanding of his strange character I was mistaken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's lucky for you that from what she let fall, I've got the clue I want, for if I hadn't, I'd have visited the failure upon you, I can tell you.'
-- Not the slightest trace or clue could be obtained.
-- The fact of their joint desertion of the office was made known to all comers by a scrap of paper in the hand-writing of Mr Swiveller, which was attached to the bell-handle, and which, giving the reader no clue to the time of day when it was first posted, furnished him with the rather vague and unsatisfactory information that that gentleman would 'return in an hour.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had now a clue to the import of these wells, to the ventilating towers, to the mystery of the ghosts; to say nothing of a hint at the meaning of the bronze gates and the fate of the Time Machine!And very vaguely there came a suggestion towards the solution of the economic problem that had puzzled me.
-- The Morlocks"It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow up the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What I want to know is this: Supposing that I have here in my pocket some clue to where Flint buried his treasure, will that treasure amount to much?"
-- "It will amount to this: If we have the clue you talk about, I fit out a ship in Bristol dock, and take you and Hawkins here along, and I'll have that treasure if I search a year."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first, the Jew contented himself with patiently watching his countenance, as if to gain from its expression some clue to the intelligence he brought; but in vain.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If there were anyone that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence.
扩展阅读：