thereby是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 借以, 从而，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 rumoured that he had purposely wait-ed for the solemn occasion of a large evening party at the house of his future bride, at which he was introduced to sev-eral eminent persons, in order publicly to make known his ideas and opinions, and thereby insult the 'big-wigs,' and to throw over his bride as offensively as possible; and that, re-sisting the servants who were told off to turn him out of the house, he had seized and thrown down a magnificent china vase.
-- As a characteristic addition to the above, it was cur-rently reported that the young prince really loved the lady to whom he was engaged, and had thrown her over out of purely Nihilistic motives, with the intention of giving him-self the satisfaction of marrying a fallen woman in the face of all the world, thereby publishing his opinion that there is no distinction between virtuous and disreputable women, but that all women are alike, free; and a 'fallen' woman, in-deed, somewhat superior to a virtuous one.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mariner produced a toothpick, and (saving his regard) was engrossed thereby for some minutes.
-- I can understand that thereby you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal invisibility is a far cry."
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：
-- They look upon conversation as the great pleasure of life, thereby proving the excellence of their civilisation, and for the most part they are entertaining talkers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Jiniwin being very fond of cards was carefully excluded by her son-in-law from any participation in the game, and had assigned to her the duty of occasionally replenishing the glasses from the case-bottle; Mr Quilp from that moment keeping one eye constantly upon her, lest she should by any means procure a taste of the same, and thereby tantalising the wretched old lady (who was as much attached to the case-bottle as the cards) in a double degree and most ingenious manner.
-- It seemed as if somebody on the other side of this screen had been insinuating doubts of Mr Groves's prowess, and had thereby given rise to these egotistical expressions, for Mr Groves wound up his defiance by giving a loud knock upon it with his knuckles and pausing for a reply from the other side.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The usher, looking politely and pleasantly through his pince-nez, bowed, thereby distinguishing him from the rest, as it were.
-- He also intended to explain to them that if they gave an affirmative answer to a question, they would thereby affirm everything involved in the question, and that if they did not desire to affirm everything involved in the question, they must distinguish the part they affirmed from the part they disaffirmed.
-- "You see what variety of duties I have," said Anatal, smiling and pointing at his wife, thereby expressing the impossibility of resisting that bewitching person.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, for want of better, I talked to myself; I declaimed in the copper box which covered my head, thereby expending more air in vain words than was perhaps wise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.
-- And here, Noah writhed and twisted his body into an extensive variety of eel-like positions; thereby giving Mr. Bumble to understand that, from the violent and sanguinary onset of Oliver Twist, he had sustained severe internal injury and damage, from which he was at that moment suffering the acutest torture.
-- In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.
-- As he said it, Master Bates caught up an end of his neckerchief; and, holding it erect in the air, dropped his head on his shoulder, and jerked a curious sound through his teeth; thereby indicating, by a lively pantomimic representation, that scragging and hanging were one and the same thing.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His character is thereby complete.'
-- As all conversation was thereby at an end, Elizabeth soon afterwards left the room.
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