be是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (就) 是， 等于； (存) 在； 到达， 来到， 发生，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How could it be otherwise?
-- This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
-- 'Merry Christmas!What right have Sons and Loversyou to be merry?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.
-- It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands A tale of two citiesadjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revo-lution.
-- But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
-- the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill.
-- In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a rob-ber or in league with robbers.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'These must, indeed, be splendid clothes!'
-- 'Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!This stuff must be woven for me immediately.'
-- And he caused large sums of Andersen's Fairy Talesmoney to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
-- 'I should like to know how the weavers are getting on with my cloth,' said the Emperor to himself, after some lit-tle time had elapsed; he was, however, rather embarrassed, when he remembered that a simpleton, or one unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manufacture.
-- To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure!
-- "But what's to be done?
-- What's to be done?"
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done.
-- And the worst of it all is that she's already...it seems as if ill-luck would have it so!Oh, oh!But what, what is to be done?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
-- The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.
-- I believe I'm honest, monsieur, but, to be outspoken, I've had several trades.
-- Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire.
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