nothing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 没有东西； 什么也没有； 无关紧要的人或事，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：
-- This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- 'I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why can-not we be friends?'
-- The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of 'God bless you, merry gentleman!May nothing you dis-may!'
-- Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the hors-es; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
-- 'He may come close; there's nothing wrong.'
-- 'There is nothing to apprehend.
-- 'Nothing at all, Joe.'
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：
-- So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
-- To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair.
-- The poor old minister looked and looked, he could not discover anything on the looms, for a very good reason, viz: there was nothing there.
-- It was just the same with this gentleman as with the minister; he surveyed the looms on all sides, but could see nothing at all but the empty frames.
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, 'Here are your Majesty's trousers!Here is the scarf!Here is the mantle!The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done.
-- It appeared that he had forgotten nothing except what he wanted to forget--his wife.
-- he said to himself; and an inner voice told him he must not go, that nothing could come of it but falsity; that to amend, to set right their relations was impossible, because it was impossible to make her attractive again and able to inspire love, or to make him an old man, not susceptible to love.
-- Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
-- "Let us send for my brother," she said; "he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I should like nothing better."
-- He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
-- "Faith, Monsieur Fix, I assure you I know nothing about it, nor would I give half a crown to find out."
-- There was nothing to say to so confident a response.
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