somewhat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 有点儿，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：
-- Hardly roused from my somewhat hard couch, I felt my brain freed, my mind clear.
-- It is a kind of sea-weed, rich in nicotine, with which the sea provides me, but somewhat sparingly."
-- A somewhat nervous conchyliologist would certainly have fainted before other more numerous cases, in which were classified the specimens of molluscs.
-- Under ordinary conditions these observations are made by means of rather complicated instruments, and with somewhat doubtful results, by means of thermometrical sounding-leads, the glasses often breaking under the pressure of the water, or an apparatus grounded on the variations of the resistance of metals to the electric currents.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half a mile from the shore rose the islet, which somewhat resembled the carcass of a gigantic whale.
-- Then, feeling somewhat refreshed, Cyrus Harding crossed his arms, and said, "So, my friends, you do not know yet whether fate has thrown us on an island, or on a continent?"
-- The first attempts were somewhat crude, but in consequence of the cleverness and intelligence of the workmen, by consulting, and recalling the models which they had seen, and by emulating each other, the possessions of the colony were soon increased by several baskets of different sizes.
-- The level of the lake would, no doubt, be somewhat lowered by this fresh discharge of its waters, but Cyrus Harding had ascertained that the volume of water in the Red Creek was considerable enough to allow of the execution of this project.
-- Of course they were jolted over the somewhat rough road, but the vehicle arrived without any accident, and was soon loaded with the case and rigging of the balloon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit was the best-tempered fellow in the world, but considering this strong language, and being somewhat excited by the circumstances in which he was placed, he faced round to the pulpit with the baby in his arms, and replied aloud, 'No, I don't.
-- Somewhat reassured by her account of the service she was required to render, Mrs Jiniwin made her appearance in a flannel dressing-gown; and both mother and daughter, trembling with terror and cold for the night was now far advanced obeyed Mr Quilp's directions in submissive silence.
-- These complimentary expressions were uttered in a somewhat absent and distracted manner; for the unfortunate lawyer, besides having a bad cold in his head, had got wet in coming, and would have willingly borne some pecuniary sacrifice if he could have shifted his present raw quarters to a warm room, and dried himself at a fire.
-- While he addressed his clerk in these words, Mr Brass was, somewhat ostentatiously, engaged in minutely examining and holding up against the light a five-pound bank note, which he had brought in, in his hand.
-- Even in this state it reached from floor to ceiling; and thrusting itself forward, with that excessively wide-awake aspect, and air of somewhat obtrusive politeness, by which figure-heads are usually characterised, seemed to reduce everything else to mere pigmy proportions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the dull pallor of that face the most striking feature was the black, sparkling eyes, somewhat swollen, but very bright eyes, one of which slightly squinted.
-- With quick movement Maslova rose with an air of submissiveness, and throwing back her shoulders, looked into the face of the presiding justice with her smiling, somewhat squinting black eyes.
-- "I came home," Maslova continued, looking somewhat bolder, "and went to sleep.
-- However, when he was taking leave, and Katiousha, standing on the veranda with the aunts, follo wed him with her black, tearful and somewhat squinting eyes, he felt that he was leaving behind him something beautiful, precious, which would never recur.
-- Thus, when Nekhludoff was thinking, reading, speaking of God, of truth, of wealth, of poverty, everybody considered it out of place and somewhat queer, while his mother and aunt, with good- natured irony, called him notre cher philosophe.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
-- But the mere fact that he was a man, however wild, had somewhat reassured me, and my fear of Silver began to revive in proportion.
-- The house was by this time somewhat cleared of smoke, and we saw at a glance the price we had paid for victory.
-- The excitement of these last manoeuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.
-- It had not been our way to build great fires; we were, indeed, by the captain's orders, somewhat niggardly of firewood, and I began to fear that something had gone wrong while I was absent.
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