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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In whatever way Mrs Jarley received the response, it did not provoke her to further questioning, or tempt her into any more remarks at the time, for she relapsed into a thoughtful silence, and remained in that state so long that Nell withdrew to the other window and rejoined her grandfather, who was now awake.
-- As she was making her way to her own bed, she determined to say nothing of this adventure, as upon whatever errand the dwarf had come (and she feared it must have been in search of them) it was clear by his inquiry about the London coach that he was on his way homeward, and as he had passed through that place, it was but reasonable to suppose that they were safer from his inquiries there, than they could be elsewhere.
-- But he's worth a dozen men, and I let him say of me whatever he likes in consequence he knows that.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nekhludoff at first struggled, but the struggle was very hard, for whatever he did, following the faith that was in him, was considered wrong by others, and, contrariwise, whatever he considered wrong was approved of by his relatives.
-- Nekhludoff wanted to get through the most difficult part, and therefore immediately added: "I take all expenses on myself, whatever they may be," he said, blushing.
-- "There is a law relating to visits, and whatever that law permits, that is permitted.
-- "Yes, yes, with the first steamer from Nijhni; I know," said Wolf, with his condescending smile, who always knew everything in advance, whatever the subject mentioned to him.
-- Let her do whatever her soul prompts her to do; if she would make love to the assistant, let her do so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered: I was, so to speak, attenuated was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction possibly a far-reaching explosion would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions into the Unknown.
-- Whatever the reason, the fact remains that the sun was very much hotter than we know it.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then came another of those melancholy little sighs, and this time the poor Gnat really seemed to have sighed itself away, for, when Alice looked up, there was nothing whatever to be seen on the twig, and, as she was getting quite chilly with sitting still so long, she got up and walked on.
-- At this moment the door was flung open, and a shrill voice was heard singing:'To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said,"I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head;Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be,Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me."'
-- It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker.
-- But if I were sure they were raving as I am morally certain one, at least, of them is down with fever I should leave this camp, and at whatever risk to my own carcass, take them the assistance of my skill."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Never once did he complain of the length or fatigue of a journey, never make an objection to pack his portmanteau for whatever country it might be, or however far away, whether China or Congo.
-- It became really necessary to communicate with the beings, whatever they were, shut up inside the machine.
-- Strange to say, all these books were irregularly arranged, in whatever language they were written; and this medley proved that the Captain of the Nautilus must have read indiscriminately the books which he took up by chance.
-- "It is to use the Rouquayrol apparatus, invented by two of your own countrymen, which I have brought to perfection for my own use, and which will allow you to risk yourself under these new physiological conditions without any organ whatever suffering.
-- Whatever he might say, this strange man had not yet succeeded in entirely crushing his heart.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children."
-- "It contains the whole truth of that state, whatever you feel about it."
-- The others were all outsiders, instinctively, whatever they might be socially.
-- Whatever she had on, so long as she was barely tidy, she was right, beyond remark; such an aristocrat she was by instinct.
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