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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding the distance, and the noise of the wind and sea, one heard distinctly the loud strokes of the animal's tail, and even its panting breath.
-- Ned Land, tormented by the cravings of hunger, got still more angry; and, notwithstanding his promise, I dreaded an explosion when he found himself with one of the crew.
-- Notwithstanding the buzzing in my head, I soon heard the humming sound under the hull of the Nautilus.
-- Notwithstanding this "et cetera," I must not omit to mention fish that Conseil will long remember, and with good reason.
-- It was a favourable opportunity, notwithstanding the thirty miles that separated the Nautilus from the coasts of the Union.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding the unnatural whiteness and fullness of her face, this pleasant peculiarity was in the face, in the lips, in the slightly squinting eyes, and, principally, in the naive, smiling glance, and in the expression of submissiveness not only in the face, but in the whole figure.
-- Notwithstanding the terror that seized him, he could not remove his own gaze from those squinting eyes with their shining whites.
-- Yes, notwithstanding the prison garb, the bloated body and the high breast; notwithstanding the distended lower part of the face, the wrinkles on the forehead and the temples, and the swelling under the eyes, it was undoubtedly that same Katiousha who on Easter Sunday looked up to him, her beloved, with her enamored, smiling, happy, lively eyes.
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