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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Henfrey not only took off the hands of the clock, and the face, but extracted the works; and he tried to work in as slow and quiet and unassuming a manner as possible.
-- Crate after crate yielded bottles, until all six were empty and the table high with straw; the only things that came out of these crates besides the bottles were a number of test-tubes and a carefully packed balance.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited.
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- The only human being on deck was a gaunt and silent sailor at the wheel.
-- I think Montgomery might have left him then, seeing the brute was drunk; but he only turned a shade paler, and fol-lowed the captain to the bulwarks.
-- Only the asses won't see it!Why am I here now, an outcast from civilisation, instead of being a happy man enjoying all the pleasures of London?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is why he has only killed cattle.
-- Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
-- At last they all went down the hill for the dead bull, and only Akela, Bagheera, Baloo, and Mowgli's own wolves were left.
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- But though a young wolf would have remem-bered that advice every hour, Mowgli forgot it because he was only a boy though he would have called himself a wolf if he had been able to speak in any human tongue.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
-- Of all the tribes named in these pages, there exist only a few half-civilized beings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New York.
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- That which at first was only rumor, soon became certainty, as orders passed from the quarters of the commander-in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departure.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being con-sidered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- Among the musical disciples who assembled, one eve-ning in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer.
-- From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these re-gions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peer-less daughter of Van Tassel.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
-- Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse; and certainly the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in representing the great figures of romance as patterns of the domestic virtues.
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