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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also a belief that its proprietor must once have been called Doctor Vickerson, but for years he had been only The Doc, and he was scurfier and much less adjustable than the chair.
-- He was an aged widower; for what he called "female fixings" he cared nothing; and the bedroom with its tottering bureau and its cot of frowsy blankets was cleaned only by Martin, in not very frequent attacks of sanitation.
-- Only one drink.
-- Only museum in whole county.
-- Only one in county but--I'm an old failure."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His parents were very hard- working and deeply religious people, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms.
-- Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a few minutes of life before me.
-- He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and iso-lated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all.
-- At the time he had put no faith in those dreams and was only tantalising himself by their hideous but daring recklessness.
-- 'Perhaps she is always like that though, only I did not notice it the other time,' he thought with an uneasy feeling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the second branch of the question, Iwill only remark, that unless I ran through that part of myinheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet.
-- Copperfield was only too good tome.'
-- There was an interval of silence, only broken by Miss Betsey's occasionally ejaculating 'Ha!'
-- She only shook her own head at him, but in a way that made himquail.
-- 'Only Brooks of Sheffield,' said Mr. Murdstone.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- I only doubt whether he will ever take us anywhere else.
-- Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The handsome girl waited for some time idly in her place, and the only sound heard in the stillness was the hopping of the canary up and down the perches of its prison.
-- It was only latterly that people had begun to call Gabriel "Farmer" Oak.
-- "You see, it is the only one I shall ever have, and I must make the most of it."
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