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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must admit that I have a perfect right to refuse to answer your questions; but, in or-der to show you that I am neither ashamed of the letter, nor sorry that I wrote it, and that I am not in the least inclined to blush about it '(here the prince's blushes redoubled), 'I will repeat the substance of my letter, for I think I know it almost by heart.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We crossed the ravine down which smoked the stream of hot water, and followed the winding pathway through the canebrakes until we reached a wide area covered over with a thick, powdery yellow substance which I believe was sul-phur.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall here only set down the substance of what passed be-tween us concerning my own country, reducing it in order as well as I can, without any regard to time or other circum-stances, while I strictly adhere to truth.
-- I have related the substance of several conversations I had with my master during the greatest part of the time I had the honour to be in his service; but have, indeed, for brevity sake, omitted much more than is here set down.
-- I forgot another circumstance (and perhaps I might have the reader's pardon if it were wholly omitted), that while I held the odious vermin in my hands, it voided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance all over my clothes; but by good fortune there was a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as clean as I could; although I durst not come into my master's presence until I were sufficiently aired.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should like him to hear a short bit of dialogue between you and me, instead of taking the substance of it for I know precious well, beforehand, what it will be; nobody knows better than I do, take notice! instead of receiving it on trust from my mouth.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No substance to her or anything...no touch, no contact!
-- Yes, there were two great groups of dogs wrangling for the bitch-goddess: the group of the flatterers, those who of-fered her amusement, stories, films, plays: and the other, much less showy, much more savage breed, those who gave her meat, the real substance of money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the substance of Clennam's discoveries concerning him, made that rainy Sunday afternoon and afterwards.
-- Affery, remembering that the clever one had said he would explain himself further in four-and-twenty hours' time, determined for her part that his taking himself off within that period with all he could get, was the final satisfactory sum and substance of his promised explanation; but she held her peace, devoutly thankful to be quit of him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called brit is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.
-- "'Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions, this your story is in substance really true?
-- "'So help me Heaven, and on my honor the story I have told ye, gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true.
-- **It will be seen in some other place of what a very light substance the entire interior of the sperm whale's enormous head consists.
-- Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin, as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity, or rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three fourths, and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence be had of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose mere integument yields such a lake of liquid as that.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be tedious if given in the beadle's words: occupying, as it did, some twenty minutes in the telling; but the sum and substance of it was, that Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents.
-- CHAPTER XXIII WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHOWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS The night was bitter cold.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility.
-- Elizabeth was forced to give into a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.
-- She soon learnt that they were indebted for their present good understanding to the efforts of his aunt, who did call on him in her return through Lon-don, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwell-ing emphatically on every expression of the latter which, in her ladyship's apprehension, peculiarly denoted her per-verseness and assurance; in the belief that such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from her nephew which she had refused to give.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here I must needs observe, that as rea-son is the substance and origin of the mathematics, so by stating and squaring everything by reason, and by making the most rational judgment of things, every man may be, in time, master of every mechanic art.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will not ask your opinion of it as a composition," said Edward. "For worlds would not I have had a letter of hers seen by YOU in former days. In a sister it is bad enough, but in a wife! how I have blushed over the pages of her writing! and I believe I may say that since the first half year of our foolish business this is the only letter I ever received from her, of which the substance made me any amends for the defect of the style."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sum and substance of it was that there was no hope, and they wanted the money with the least trouble possible.
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