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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver, So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.
-- "In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer of whose works I possess the only copy extant "it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."
-- Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
-- On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
-- But the fare was of the most substantial kind not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens!dumplings for supper!One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an excellent example of the power of dress, young Oliver Twist was!Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society.
-- 'Lor, only think,' said Mrs. Mann, running out,--for the three boys had been removed by this time,--'only think of that!That I should have forgotten that the gate was bolted on the inside, on account of them dear children!Walk in sir; walk in, pray, Mr. Bumble, do, sir.'
-- 'I'm sure Mr. Bumble, that I was only a telling one or two of the dear children as is so fond of you, that it was you a coming,' replied Mrs. Mann with great humility.
-- Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his lonelines s in the great wide world, sank into the child's heart for the first time.
-- He only cried bitterly all day; and, when the long, dismal night came on, spread his little hands before his eyes to shut out the darkness, and crouching in the corner, tried to sleep: ever and anon waking with a start and tremble, and drawing himself closer and closer to the wall, as if to feel even its cold hard surface were a protection in the gloom and loneliness which surrounded him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only think what an estab-lishment it would be for one of them.
-- He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much; but he saw only the father.
-- Lady Lucas quieted her fears a little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to get a large par-ty for the ball; and a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly.
-- The girls grieved over such a number of la-dies, but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only six with him from London his five sisters and a cousin.
-- And when the party entered the assembly room it consisted of only five altogeth-er Mr.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was round and fresh and dimpled and spoilt, and there was in Pet an air of timidity and dependence which was the best weakness in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without.
-- 'Your daughter,' said the other, when they had taken another silent turn to and fro, and, after standing for a moment at the wall glancing down at the sea, had resumed their walk, 'is your only child, I know, Mr Meagles.
-- I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.
-- Pet had moved up to her (she had been the subject of remark among her family and Mr Clennam, who were now the only other occupants of the room), and was standing at her side.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!'
-- Her father called her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suited her excel-lently, for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.
-- 'I do think THE WITCH-ES CURSE, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try McBETH, if we only had a trapdoor for Ban-quo.
-- It was a cheerful, hopeful letter, full of lively descriptions of camp life, marches, and military news, and only at the end did the writer's heart over-flow with fatherly love and longing for the little girls at home.
-- 'It is only another name for trying to be good, and the story may help us, for though we do want to be good, it's hard work and we forget, and don't do our best.'
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