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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing occurred during the night to disturb the slumberers, although occasional growls from panthers and chatterings of monkeys broke the silence; the more formidable beasts made no cries or hostile demonstration against the occupants of the bungalow.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing gave them more interesting thrills than the dissecting-room of the medical school.
-- They ran about the room, holding up their hands and wailing, "Won't he never remember nothing about nothing?"
-- "There's nothing for it," said the president of Digamma Pi.
-- "I tell you, you fellows are the kind that keep medicine nothing but guess-work diagnosis, and here you have a man--" So they argued for hours, after their sweaty fact-grinding.
-- "No, I have done nothing except be unpleasant to people that claim too much, but I have dreams of real discoveries some day.
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：
-- Nothing that any landlady could do had a real terror for him.
-- In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
-- But there was nothing special in the room.
-- 'Oh, nothing particular, I simply asked.
-- 'Hopelessly in the fullest sense, when you know before- hand that you will get nothing by it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I need say nothing here on the first head, because nothing canshow better than my history whether that prediction was verifiedor falsified by the result.
-- 'It's nothing but fancy.
-- Peggotty knowing nothing about her, and my mothersaying nothing about her, she was quite a mystery in the parlour;and the fact of her having a magazine of jewellers' cotton in herpocket, and sticking the article in her ears in that way, did notdetract from the solemnity of her presence.
-- It is nothing to say that he hadn't aword to throw at a dog.
-- Mr. Chillip could do nothing after this, but sit and look at herfeebly, as she sat and looked at the fire, until he was called upstairsagain.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They lived beyond their income, but still it was nothing in comparison of Enscombe: she did not cease to love her husband, but she wanted at once to be the wife of Captain Weston, and Miss Churchill of Enscombe.
-- His own stomach could bear nothing rich, and he could nev-er believe other people to be different from himself.
-- The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.
-- 'He is very plain, undoubtedly remarkably plain: but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility.
-- He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to ap-pearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
-- Yet, although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as mercurial a dash as can the men of towns who are more to the manner born, his special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static, owing little or nothing to momentum as a rule.
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