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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a time did he walk round and round as near to the hated castle as he dared go, but all in vain; he heard or saw nothing of Jorinda.
-- Now that very day the hundred years were ended; and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beauti-ful flowering shrubs, through which he went with ease, and they shut in after him as thick as ever.
-- 'Because,' said the dog, 'I am very very hungry, and have nothing to eat.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- I heard a confused noise about me; but in the pos-ture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
-- And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big- endian exiles, and com-pelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
-- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence ren-ders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
-- For the Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.
-- Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
-- You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
-- 'In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!'
-- A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To me there was nothing like pebbles --and if my uncle had been in a little less of a fury, we should have been the happiest of families.
-- Nothing could be more logical.
-- But my uncle, who never thought even of such sublunary matters, knew nothing of this.
-- But try as I might, nothing could keep me from thinking alternately of the stupid manuscript and of the pretty Gretchen.
-- Nothing intelligible came out, except that the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth made ice in English; the eighty-fourth, eighty-fifth, and eighty-sixth, the word sir; then at last I seemed to find the Latin words rota, mutabile, ira, nec, atra.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had nothing to do with Sir Malcolm, who left his nervously hostile, high-spirited wife to rule her own roost, while he went his own way.
-- Beyond this nothing really touched him.
-- Con-nie felt that she herself didn't really, not really touch him; perhaps there was nothing to get at ultimately; just a nega-tion of human contact.
-- Miss Chatterley came sometimes, with her aristocratic thin face, and triumphed, finding nothing altered.
-- Connie's father, where he paid a flying visit to Wragby, and in private to his daughter: As for Clifford's writing, it's smart, but there's NOTHING IN IT.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say nothing in defence of pride, but I am proud.
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