item是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 条款, 项目, 一条(新闻)，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another item had been added to that constant and apparently pur-poseless series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- champagne!That was an interesting item of news, at all events! Twelve bottles!Dear me, that's a very respectable little stock indeed!I bet anything Lebedeff lent somebody money on deposit of this dozen of champagne.
-- This last item of news, which disturbed Lizabetha Pro-kofievna more than anything else, was perfectly true.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merry Christmas!Out upon merry Christmas!What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll 'phone the editor of the Gazette and give him an item about the case."
-- Martin was edified by an item which showed that among all families divorced in Ontario, Tennessee, and Southern Wyoming in 1912, the appalling number of fifty-three per cent of the husbands drank at least one glass of whisky daily.
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：
-- she began hav-ing recourse to her leading item of conversation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But Charlotte," continued Coggan "not a word of the sort would Charlotte allow, nor the smallest item of taking in vain.... Ay, poor Charlotte, I wonder if she had the good fortune to get into Heaven when 'a died!But 'a was never much in luck's way, and perhaps 'a went downwards after all, poor soul."
-- The third item of consciousness was that of seeing the same sword, perfectly clean and free from blood held vertically in Troy's hand (in the position technically called "recover swords").
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What item was it you were at, Wemmick, when Mr. Pip came in?"
-- "Now, Wemmick," said the latter then, resuming his usual manner, "what item was it you were at when Mr. Pip came in?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took in every item of what I saw, and I began to comprehend the succession of phenomena which had preceded its formation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
-- But the last item was long, long, long, in linking itself to the rest.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head standers of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is not so, is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole historian of Nantucket, stands accountable.
-- And however the general experiences in the fishery may amend such reports as these; yet in their full terribleness, even to the bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the superstitious belief in them is, in some vicissitudes of their vocation, revived in the minds of the hunters.
-- There is another little item about Gamming which must not be forgotten here.
-- **A little item may as well be related here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had agreed it was best to walk, that morning at least, to see if she could do it every day--sixty cents a week for car fare being quite an item under the circumstances.
-- When, however, he started west on the car he forgot, and was only reminded of his delinquency by an item in the "Evening News"--a small three-line affair under the head of Secret Society Notes--which stated the Custer Lodge of the Order of Elks would give a theatrical performance in Avery Hall on the 16th, when "Under the Gaslight" would be produced.
-- In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.
-- "Did you notice," he said, at last, breaking forth concerning another item which he had found, "that they have entered suit to compel the Illinois Central to get off the lake front, Julia?"
-- No item about a firm failing, a family starving, or a man dying upon the streets, supposedly of starvation, but arrested his eye as he scanned the morning papers.
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