only是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 仅仅， 只不过a. 唯一的conj. 可是， 不过，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：
-- The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
-- The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already it had not been light all day and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
-- But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and ori-gin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
-- growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a mer- Sons and Loversry Christmas.
-- The clerk observed that it was only once a year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally defi-cient in originality) rapped out theirs.
-- For he was furnished with that completeness that if the 13coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
-- Jerry, left alone in the mist and darkness, dismounted meanwhile, not only to ease his spent horse, but to wipe the mud from his face, and shake the wet out of his hat-brim, which might be capable of holding about half a gallon.
-- When he stopped for drink, he moved this muffler with his left hand, only while he poured his- liquor in with his right; as soon as that was done, he muffled again.
-- By that time, there was only one adventurous traveller left be congratulated: for the two others had been set down at their respective roadside destinations.
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：
-- 'If your Majesty will only be pleased to look at it!What a splendid design!What glorious colors!'
-- It happened that where the Prince's father lay buried, there grew a rose tree a most beautiful rose tree, which blossomed only once in every five years, and even then bore only one flower, but that was a rose!It smelt so sweet that all cares and sorrows were forgotten by him who inhaled its fragrance.
-- Now the Princess happened to walk that way; and when she heard the tune, she stood quite still, and seemed pleased; for she could play 'Lieber Augustine"; it was the only piece she knew; and she played it with one finger.
-- * * A.D. 1482-1513 While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
-- The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.
-- There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there's no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one's thoughts awake."
-- He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
-- "You want to try it on," Matvey understood, but he only said, "Yes sir."
-- Let him do--that is you--as he likes," he said, laughing only with his eyes, and putting his hands in his pockets, he watched his master with his head on one side.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.
-- Only I warn you that I shall do it at your expense."
-- "It's only a joke."
-- "But, Mr. Fogg, eighty days are only the estimate of the least possible time in which the journey can be made."
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