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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The light ships fared the best, as not so much labouring in the sea; but two or three of them drove, and came close by us, running away with only their spritsail out before the wind.
-- It was to no purpose for them or us, after we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed to let her drive, and only to pull her in towards shore as much as we could; and our master prom-ised them, that if the boat was staved upon shore, he would make it good to their master: so partly rowing and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping to-wards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness.
-- The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melan-choly, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voy-age only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone 'Young man,' says he, 'you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.'
-- that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be es-teemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.
-- This was the only voyage which I may say was success-ful in all my adventures, which I owe to the integrity and honesty of my friend the captain; under whom also I got a competent knowledge of the mathematics and the rules of navigation, learned how to keep an account of the ship's course, take an observation, and, in short, to understand some things that were needful to be understood by a sailor; for, as he took delight to instruct me, I took delight to learn; and, in a word, this voyage made me both a sailor and a merchant; for I brought home five pounds nine ounces of gold-dust for my adventure, which yielded me in London, at my return, almost 300 pounds; and this filled me with those aspiring thoughts which have since so completed my ruin.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.
-- But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth.
-- No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
-- Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence.
-- How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She half closed her eyes and tried to think it was nothing, that Columbia City was only a little way off.
-- Only Carrie saw it.
-- She could only think of people connected with them as counting money, dressing magnificently, and riding in carriages.
-- What they dealt in, how they laboured, to what end it all came, she had only the vaguest conception.
-- "We employ only experienced help."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.
-- But I never said so, because it would only make trouble, and wouldn't do no good.
-- 'Nothing only robbery and murder,' Tom said.
-- Ben Rogers said he couldn't get out much, only Sundays, and so he wanted to begin next Sunday; but all the boys said it would be wicked to do it on Sunday, and that settled the thing.
-- Chapter III ELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old WMiss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It can easily be seen that I only thought I heard the tiny voice say the words!Well, well--to work once more."
-- Here it is--a piece of common firewood, good only to burn in the stove, the same as any other.
-- "It can easily be seen I only imagined I heard the tiny voice!Well, well--to work once more!"
-- But his happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he heard someone saying: "Cri-cri-cri!"
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