alternative是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 二选一； 供选择的东西； 取舍a. 二选一的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had no alternative but to descend the opposite slope and enter the narrow gorges, uncertain whether any outlet existed.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You will observe, Watson, the alternative use of the long s and the short.
-- I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentra-tion during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were es-sential and which immaterial.
-- There seemed to be no alternative but to catch him red-handed, and to do so we had to use Sir Henry, alone and apparently unprotected, as a bait.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here's another alternative for me,' said Nastasia, turn-ing once more to the actress; 'and he does it out of pure kindness of heart.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Wadgers, and left the alternative unsaid.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only one alternative is possible: undesigned detection, supported by letters which I have."
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：
-- repeated Cora, with a calmer and firmer voice, 'that were easy!Perhaps the alternative may not be less so.
-- 'Cora!Cora!you jest with our misery!Name not the horrid alternative again; the thought itself is worse than a thou-sand deaths.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something extremely pro-voking, in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival.
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：
-- She never even changed the hour of her errands or sought an alternative route.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On looking atMaster Micawber again, I saw that he had a certain expression of 494face, as if his voice were behind his eyebrows; where it presentlyappeared to be, on his singing us (as an alternative between thatand bed), 'The Wood-Pecker tapping.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might assist his resolution, or reconcile him to it; she might give just praise to Harriet, or, by representing to him his own independence, relieve him from that state of indecision, which must be more intoler-able than any alternative to such a mind as his. They had reached the house.
-- Like him, she had tried the scheme and rejected it; but such an alternative as this had not occurred to her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the ashpit was a heap of potatoes roasting, and a boiling pipkin of charred bread, called "coffee", for the benefit of whomsoever should call, for Warren's was a sort of clubhouse, used as an alternative to the inn.
-- He had been known to observe casually that in dealing with womankind the only alternative to flattery was cursing and swearing.
-- The alternative is dreadful, but take Bathsheba; I give her up!She must love you indeed to sell soul and body to you so utterly as she has done.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a certain period, the earth consisted only of an elastic crust, liable to alternative upward and downward movements in virtue of the law of attraction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
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