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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the visitor was not to be drawn so easily.
-- He seemed to be talking to himself.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them.
-- 'But,' said he with a momentary hesitation, 'you know I'm dying to hear of how you came to be alone in that boat.
-- After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far re-covered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
-- 'Look you here, Captain,' he said; 'that man of mine is not to be ill-treated.
-- 'Pendick be damned!'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even where he was, Shere Khan's shoulders and forepaws were cramped for want of room, as a man's would be if he tried to fight in a barrel.
-- The man's cub is mine, Lungri mine to me!He shall not be killed.
-- The cub must be shown to the Pack.
-- The punishment is death where the murderer can be found; and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so.
-- Sometimes a mother would push her cub far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked.
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：
-- These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- He is much addicted to overestimating his own perfections, and to undervaluing those of his rival or his enemy; a trait which may possibly be thought corroborative of the Mosaic account of the cre-ation.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
-- The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchant-ed region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horse-back, without a head.
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
-- That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to considered the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones he had various ways of rendering himself both use-ful and agreeable.
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：
-- Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness.
-- It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.
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