notwithstanding是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. /ad. /conj. 尽管，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：
-- It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding Miss Pross's denial of her own imag-ination, there was a perception of the pain of being monotonously haunted by one sad idea, in her repetition of the phrase, walking up and down, which testified to her possessing such a thing.
-- Notwithstanding an unusual flow of company, the mas-ter of the wine-shop was not visible.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, involuntarily; and instantly through it slipped, easily and without pain, notwithstanding it was pretty large and thick.
-- And the man told about Humpy-Dumpy that tumbled down, who notwithstanding came to the throne, and at last married the princess.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He called Vronsky "your excellency," and notwithstanding Anna's and Vronsky's invitations, he would never stay to dinner, nor come except for the sittings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very cold I was, I know, notwithstanding the hot tea theyhad given me before a large fire downstairs; and very glad I was toturn into the Dolphin's bed, pull the Dolphin's blankets round myhead, and go to sleep.
-- I believe that I began to know that therewas something about my aunt, notwithstanding her manyeccentricities and odd humours, to be honoured and trusted in.
-- Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred sinceMr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds.
-- Mr. Jorkins, notwithstanding his reputation in thefirm, was an easygoing, incapable sort of man, whose reputationout of doors was not calculated to back it up.
-- Notwithstanding which, she got out in the night; forced the latticeof a window, that I had nailed up myself; dropped on a vine thatwas trailed below; and never has been seen or heard of, to myknowledge, since.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The union was not only an unutterable grief to him: it amazed him, notwithstanding that he had passed the preceding week in a suspicion that such might be the issue of Troy's meeting her away from home.
-- Gabriel had his reasons for thinking the latter a most objectionable plan, notwithstanding that Fanny had been an inmate of the farm-house for several years in the lifetime of Bathsheba's uncle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
-- For my own part, I do not hesitate to say that, notwithstanding all the evidence produced against her, I believe and rely on her perfect in-nocence.
-- I am not one of your enemies, I believed you guiltless, notwithstanding every evidence, until I heard that you had yourself declared your guilt.
-- As Mr. Kirwin said this, notwithstanding the agitation I endured on this retrospect of my sufferings, I also felt con-220 Frankensteinsiderable surprise at the knowledge he seemed to possess concerning me.
-- I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.
-- "First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will--never would, in hundred years--impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small.
-- Notwithstanding my inability to settle to anything,--which I hope arose out of the restless and incomplete tenure on which I held my means,--I had a taste for reading, and read regularly so many hours a day.
-- Every hour so increased my abhorrence of him, that I even think I might have yielded to this impulse in the first agonies of being so haunted, notwithstanding all he had done for me and the risk he ran, but for the knowledge that Herbert must soon come back.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 191 He said so many other obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest a man, that I could not reject this proposal; the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
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