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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madame Tussaud's "people," let it be said, are of wax, and are much visited in London; speech is all that is wanting to make them human.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They's a whole lot of new things I aim to be seeing!"
-- He did awe his Gang by bandaging stone-bruises, dissecting squirrels, and explaining the astounding and secret matters to be discovered at the back of the physiology, but he was not completely free from an ambition to command such glory among them as was enjoyed by the son of the Episcopalian minister, who could smoke an entire cigar without becoming sick.
-- If he came into the consultation-room at once, he would be safe.
-- "Why they don't repair that culvert--And don't be a booze-hoister like me, either.
-- It is the property of the people of the state, and what they want--or what they are told they want--is a mill to turn out men and women who will lead moral lives, play bridge, drive good cars, be enterprising in business, and occasionally mention books, though they are not expected to have time to read them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others tak-en out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot.
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
-- It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
-- He was so badly dressed that even a man accustomed to shabbiness would have been ashamed to be seen in the street in such rags.
-- Owing to the proximity of the Hay Market, the number of establishments of bad character, the preponderance of the trading and working class population crowded in these streets and alleys in the heart of Petersburg, types so vari-ous were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DAVID COPPERFIELDTHE PERSONAL HISTORY EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATIONOF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER OF BLUNDERSTONEROOKERY WHICH HE NEVER MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED ONANY ACCOUNTDEDICATIONAffectionately inscribed to The Hon.
-- It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent toevery child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that familyas dearly as I love them.
-- 9CHAPTER II Am BornWHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, orwhether that station will be held by anybody else, these pagesmust show.
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of thisproperty; and if any- body else should be in the present enjoymentof it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of every day.
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civ-il, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.
-- It was a melancholy change; and Emma could not but sigh over it, and wish for impos-sible things, till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.
-- But I ask all good and gentle readers to be so kind as to forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any inhabitants of a Victorian Wessex outside the pages of this and the companion volumes in which they were first discovered.
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
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