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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
-- If we do NOT know them all if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
-- I aspired to nothing more than again seeing my country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, my dear and precious collections but nothing could keep me back!I forgot all fatigue, friends and collections and accepted without hesitation the offer of the American Government.
-- As to the ship's company, they desired nothing better than to meet the unicorn, to harpoon it, hoist it on board, and despatch it.
-- The 30th of June, the frigate spoke some American whalers, from whom we learned that they knew nothing about the narwhal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing materializes!Everything withers in the bud."
-- Now he spoke quite easily and pleasantly to Mr Crich, as they walked along the path; he played with situations like a man on a tight-rope: but always on a tight-rope, pretending nothing but ease.
-- The two men were gone, there was nothing more to see, for the time.
-- "There's nothing to imagine, that's why they don't exist."
-- I'd chalk them in plain, chalk in nothing else, merely the red and the yellow.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in kneebreeches and gaiters.
-- Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling to manifestations of mutual kindliness.
-- I have nothing to do with it.
-- This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small CATHERINE EA RNSHAW, here and there varied to CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF, and then again to CATHERINE LINTON.
-- Lie down and finish out the night, since you ARE here; but, for heaven's sake!don't repeat that horrid noise: nothing could excuse it, unless you were having your throat cut!
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- I remember the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself upstairs in his room, and which, before the end, was nothing but patches.
-- For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
-- Now, Mrs. Hawkins, just you run upstairs to your husband and tell him, if possible, nothing about it.
-- A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded.
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