substance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 物质； 实质， 本质； 主旨； 财产， 资产，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always as on the trial evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille 110 A tale of two citiesthrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.
-- A shadow indeed!No substance in it, Lucie.'
-- 454 A tale of two citiesX The Substance of the Shadow , Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of 'IBeauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year, 1767.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He discovered nothing but shadows of what had been bacteria: thin outlines, the form still there but the cell substance gone; minute skeletons on an infinitesimal battlefield.
-- It might be some anti-staph substance existing in the pus, or something liberated by the staphylococci themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We could show her the substance of one, I think?'
-- Walking along the Strand, afterwards, andobserving a hard mottled substance in the window of a ham andbeef shop, which resembled marble, but was labelled 'MockTurtle,' I went in and bought a slab of it, which I have since seenreason to believe would have sufficed for fifteen people.
-- The leg of mutton came up very red within, and verypale without: besides having a foreign substance of a gritty naturesprinkled over it, as if it had had a fall into the ashes of thatremarkable kitchen fire-place.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With such sensations, Mr. Elton's civilities were dread-fully ill-timed; but she had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross and of thinking that the rest of the visit could not possibly pass without bringing forward the same information again, or the substance of it, from the open-hearted Mr. Weston. So it proved; for when happily released from Mr. Elton, and seated by Mr. Weston, at dinner, he made use of the very first interval in the cares of hospitality, the very first leisure from the saddle of mutton, to say to her, 'We want only two more to be just the right number.
-- She regained the street happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax's letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself.
-- He had caught both substance and shadow both for-tune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be; talking only of himself and his own concerns expect-ing to be congratulated ready to be laughed at and, with cordial, fearless smiles, now addressing all the young ladies of the place, to whom, a few weeks ago, he would have been more cautiously gallant.
-- Mrs. Cole was telling that she had been calling on Miss Bates, and as soon as she entered the room had been struck by the sight of a pianoforte a very elegant looking instru-ment not a grand, but a large-sized square pianoforte; and the substance of the story, the end of all the dialogue which ensued of surprize, and inquiry, and congratulations on her side, and explanations on Miss Bates's, was, that this pianoforte had arrived from Broadwood's the day before, to the great astonishment of both aunt and niece entirely unexpected; that at first, by Miss Bates's account, Jane her-self was quite at a loss, quite bewildered to think who could possibly have ordered it but now, they were both perfectly satisfied that it could be from only one quarter; of course it must be from Colonel Campbell.
-- The substance of this letter was forwarded to Emma, in a note from Mrs. Weston, instantly.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned to the hut, bringing in his arms a new-born lamb, consisting of four legs large enough for a full-grown sheep, united by a seemingly inconsiderable membrane about half the substance of the legs collectively, which constituted the animal's entire body just at present.
-- In substance it had originally been hair, but long contact with sheep seemed to be turning it by degrees into wool of a poor quality and staple.
-- A rusty patch immediately upon the verse, caused by previous pressure of an iron substance thereon, told that this was not the first time the old volume had been used for the purpose.
-- The substance of the epistle had occupied him but little in comparison with the fact of its arrival.
-- It may safely be asserted with respect to the closeness of his cuts, that had it been possible for the edge of the sword to leave in the air a permanent substance wherever it flew past, the space left untouched would have been almost a mould of Bathsheba's figure.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the out-ward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my in-quiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
-- A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
-- Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the substance of them to you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- A nice workman, who was famous for little curi-osities, undertook to make me two chairs, with backs and frames, of a substance not unlike ivory, and two tables, with a cabinet to put my things in.
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