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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
-- There is nothing surprising in this.
-- Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet.
-- He never eats dumplings, he don't he eats nothing but steaks, and he likes 'em rare."
-- I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody knows the story of another experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
-- But these impertinences were speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very self-devotional.
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
-- 'He'd be cheap with nothing at all, as a premium.
-- There being nothing eatable within his reach, Oliver replied in the affirmative.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing could be more delightful!To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.
-- 'If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield,' said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, 'and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.'
-- But to be candid without ostentation or design to take the good of every-body's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad belongs to you alone.
-- Mr. Darcy stood near them in silent indignation at such a mode of passing the evening, to the exclusion of all con-versation, and was too much engrossed by his thoughts to perceive that Sir William Lucas was his neighbour, till Sir William thus began: 'What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy!There is nothing like dancing after all.
-- The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in gen-eral might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' he demanded after a silence, 'have you nothing to say to all that?'
-- Nothing more was said on either side, though they both began walking to and fro, and necessarily crossed at every turn.
-- Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.
-- As he yet stood clasping the grate with both hands, an uproar broke upon his hearing; yells, shrieks, oaths, threats, execrations, all comprehended in it, though (as in a storm) nothing but a raging swell of sound distinctly heard.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pret-ty things, and other girls nothing at all,' added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
-- 'You're a dear, and nothing else,' answered Meg warmly, and no one contradicted her, for the 'Mouse' was the pet of the family.
-- Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could col-lect to make a Celestial City.'
-- There is nothing to eat over there, and the oldest boy came to tell me they were suffering hunger and cold.
-- It happened to be a hired waiter who knew nothing about the neighbor-hood and Jo was looking round for help when Laurie, who had heard what she said, came up and offered his grandfa-ther's carriage, which had just come for him, he said.
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