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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing down it, right down to the joint.
-- At staring and saying nothing a barefaced man, unspectacled, starts scratch.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats.
-- They could not have heard us, and the next morning when the drizzle cleared, which was not until past midday, we could see nothing of them.
-- There's nothing gained but a little relief if I respect your confidence.
-- I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque-looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer.
-- Nothing very dreadful, really, to a sane man; but just now, as we don't know you ' 'Decidedly,' said I, 'I should be a fool to take offence at any want of confidence.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Tabaqui knew as well as anyone else that there is nothing so unlucky as to compliment children to their faces.
-- Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, sing-song whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it.
-- 'Ay, roar well,' said Bagheera, under his whiskers, 'for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man.'
-- And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
-- Then they would howl and shriek senseless songs, and invite the Jungle-People to climb up their trees and fight them, or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves, and leave the dead mon-keys where the Jungle-People could see them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Even so,' returned the stranger, nothing daunted by this cold reception; 'I have tarried at 'Edward' a week, and I should be dumb not to have inquired the road I was to jour-ney; and if dumb there would be an end to my calling.'
-- 'It is refreshing both to the spirits and to the body to indulge in psalmody, in befitting seasons,' returned the master of song, unhesitatingly complying with her intima-tion to follow; 'and nothing would relieve the mind more than such a consoling communion.
-- Happily, I may say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself; for though the times may call for some slight changes, yet does this ver-sion which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness, and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth, as near as may be, to the great work of the inspired writer.
-- 'There is nothing to be seen without,' continued Hawk-eye, shaking his head in discontent; 'and our hiding-place is still in darkness.
-- 'Here is nothing to be seen but the gloom and quiet of a lovely evening,' whispered Duncan; 'how much should we prize such a scene, and all this breathing solitude, at any other moment, Cora!Fancy yourselves in security, and what now, perhaps, increases your terror, may be made con-ducive to enjoyment ' 'Listen!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that -ingenious way which is commonly denominated 'by hook and by crook,' the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the la-bor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
-- But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
-- For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V. Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz has dealt in such terms with the Rev.
-- Nothing has been too small to escape him, and you may be sure that if Charles Strickland left a laundry bill unpaid it will be given you in extenso, and if he forebore to return a borrowed half-crown no detail of the transaction will be omitted.
-- The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.
-- I admire their polish their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to speak of promise I marvel at the felicity of their style; but with all their copiousness (their vocabulary suggests that they fingered Roget's Thesaurus in their cradles) they say nothing to me: to my mind they know too much and feel too obviously; I cannot stomach the heartiness with which they slap me on the back or the emotion with which they hurl themselves on my bosom; their passion seems to me a little anaemic and their dreams a trifle dull.
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