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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There is nothing at all improbable in that," returned the captain.
-- This was nothing extraordinary, for though the hammer-headed shark is not classed among the most gigantic of the species, it is always reckoned among the most formidable.
-- For a moment they all sat silent, gazing at this frail relic, wondering if it told the tale of sad disaster, or brought some trifling message from a frolic-loving sailor, who had flung it into the sea to amuse himself when he had nothing better to do.
-- I can make nothing of it.
-- And yet he was not a man behind the times, and there was nothing little or narrow-minded about him; but while always keeping open his ancestral county to progress, he was a true Scotchman at heart, and it was for the honor of Scotland that he competed in the yacht races of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?'
-- '[This from Hugo Baskerville to his sons Rodger and John, with instructions that they say nothing thereof to their sis-ter Elizabeth.]"
-- He had taken this legend which I have read you exceedingly to heart so much so that, although he would walk in his own grounds, nothing would induce him to go out upon the moor at night.
-- 'And then you will say nothing to him at all until I have made up my mind about the matter.'
-- 'Nothing of much importance, Mr. Holmes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His black-haired neighbour inspected these peculiarities, having nothing better to do, and at length remarked, with that rude enjoyment of the discomforts of others which the common classes so often show: 'Cold?'
-- 'Five weeks since, I was just like yourself,' continued Rogojin, addressing the prince, 'with nothing but a bundle and the clothes I wore.
-- 'Come, you know nothing about HER,' said Rogojin, im-patiently.
-- but no one ever gets any further than that, for there is nothing more to say.'
-- I tell you I hadn't a notion of what was about me or before me or be-low my feet all the way; I saw nothing whatever.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But of all else that is at my ship you shall carry away nothing by force.
-- 'Incline your head,' said she, 'and promise me surely, or else deny me for you have nothing to fear that I may learn how greatly you disdain me.'
-- 'Wife,' said Jove, 'I can do nothing but you suspect me and find it out.
-- You will take nothing by it, for I shall only dislike you the more, and it will go harder with you.
-- He then sat down, and Nestor the prince of Pylos with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus: 'My friends,' said he, 'princes and councillors of the Argives, if any other man of the Achaeans had told us of this dream we should have declared it false, and would have had nothing to do with it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall, nothing loath, answered his questions and developed a conversation.
-- What the devil keeps that sleeve up and open, if there's nothing in it?
-- There was nothing in it, I tell you.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well, then," said Pinocchio, "if there is nothing else I'll eat them."
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