whatever是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为pron. 无论什么a. 无论什么样的,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then we might have found out the road they had come by taking the exact latitude and longitude, and studying the atmospheric and submarine currents; but with such a postman as a shark, that goes against wind and tide, there's no clew whatever to the starting-point."
-- After an instant, Lord Edward said again, "To my own mind the hypothesis is so plausible, that I have no doubt whatever the event occurred on the coast of Patagonia, but still I will have inquiries made in Glasgow, as to the destination of the BRITANNIA, and we shall know if it is possible she could have been wrecked on those shores."
-- But whatever might be his secret motives, such was his dream of colonization.
-- This was in 1861, and for twelve months, or up to May, 1862, letters were regularly received from him, but no tidings whatever had come since his departure from Callao, in June, and the name of the BRITANNIA never appeared in the Shipping List.
-- The Major was about fifty years of age, with a calm face and regular features—a man who did whatever he was told, of an excellent, indeed, a perfect temper; modest, silent, peaceable, and amiable, agreeing with everybody on every subject, never discussing, never disputing, never getting angry.
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:
-- There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play, or to imag-ine that death could be from any but natural causes.
-- Please forget the words I said, which have no application whatever to you.'
-- But whatever the true explanation of Barrymore's move-ments might be, I felt that the responsibility of keeping them to myself until I could explain them was more than I could bear.
-- Whatever she may have deserved one could not allow her to go hopelessly to the bad.
-- 'Whatever you tell me to do I will do.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of course my mother couldn't do anything she's too old and whatever brother Senka says is law for her!But why couldn't he let me know?
-- 'And I give you my word, general, that though I know nothing whatever of manners and customs of society, and how people live and all that, yet I felt quite sure that this visit of mine would end exactly as it has ended now.
-- You must understand, Gania, that I have no in-terest whatever in speaking like this.
-- Don't you think we may say there does not exist a single person so honest that he has never stolen anything whatever in his life?'
-- He had chosen his ideal, and he was bound to serve her, and break lances for her, and acknowl-edge her as the ideal of pure Beauty, whatever she might say or do afterwards.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am less surprised and angry with Juno, for whatever I say she always contradicts me.'
-- He is less hurt and angry with Juno, for whatever he says she always contradicts him but you, bold hussy, will you really dare to raise your huge spear in defiance of Jove?'
-- Hereafter let him suffer whatever fate may have spun out for him when he was begotten and his mother bore him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But whatever twinges of conscience he might have would be rudimentary, you may be sure.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it.
-- They belong to whoever rubs the lamp or the ring, and they've got to do whatever he says.
-- If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing-gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.
-- 'Well, my idea is this: we'll rustle around and gather up whatever pickins we've overlooked in the state- rooms, and shove for shore and hide the truck.
-- On the table in the middle of the room was a kind of a lovely crockery basket that bad apples and oranges and peaches and grapes piled up in it, which was much redder and yellower and prettier than real ones is, but they warn't real because you could see where pieces had got chipped off and showed the white chalk, or whatever it was, under- neath.
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