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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The substance of the chapter entitled 'Doctor Moreau explains,' which contains the essential idea of the story, appeared as a middle article in the 'Saturday Review' in January, 1895.
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：
-- As the Huron used his native language, the prisoners, notwithstanding the caution of the natives had kept them within the swing of their tomahawks, could only conjecture the substance of his harangue from the nature of those significant gestures with which an In-dian always illustrates his eloquence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We shall consider," replied the engineer, "and if we do not find some substance similar to tinder " "Well?"
-- These were easily made with straight stiff branches, without knots, but the points with which they must be armed, that is to say, a substance to serve in lieu of iron, could not be met with so easily.
-- Their return was marked by a fortunate incident; the engineer discovered a substance which replaced tinder.
-- They had an excellent taste, and were very nutritious, being something similar to the substance which is sold in England under the name of "Portland sago"; they were also a good substitute for bread, which the settlers in Lincoln Island did not yet possess.
-- Therefore an explosive substance must be manufactured, which would make a deep trench in some other part of the shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her means and substance wasted; her father nearly beggared by her husband's hand, and the hourly witness (for they lived now under one roof) of her ill-usage and unhappiness, she never, but for him, bewailed her fate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The substance of this view was that the greatest welfare of all men, without exception--young, old, students, generals, educated and uneducated--consisted in associating with attractive women, and that therefore all men, while pretending to occupy themselves with other business, in reality desire nothing else.
-- "But this case is simply shocking," said Nekhludoff, and related the substance of it.
-- The only thing Nekhludoff did understand was that, though Wolf had sternly suggested but yesterday that the Senate could not consider the substance of a case, in the case at bar he argued with evident partiality in favor of reversing the judgment, and that Selenin, in spite of his characteristic reserve, argued in favor of affirming the judgment with unexpected fervor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied.
-- In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was evidently a hard, impenetrable body, and not the soft substance that forms the bodies of the great marine mammalia.
-- That is the substance of what I told Captain Nemo.
-- "Coco-nuts are good things, but before filling the canoe with them it would be wise to reconnoitre and see if the island does not produce some substance not less useful.
-- "Precisely so, my learned Conseil; and, amongst these testacea the earshell, the tridacnae, the turbots, in a word, all those which secrete mother-of-pearl, that is, the blue, bluish, violet, or white substance which lines the interior of their shells, are capable of producing pearls."
-- Now this substance was wanting on board, and nothing could replace it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge?
-- There was, however, the red plush of the seats to give substance within the bubble of pleasure.
-- After all, his was the only will, she was the passive substance of his will.
-- For the present she did not want to touch him, to know the further, satisfying substance of his living body.
-- He felt her all soft and warm, she was the rich, lovely substance of his being.
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