very做形容词，表示【正是的】意思时，前面要加
定冠词the。
1.It's the very thing we were looking for.
这正是我们想找的。
2.You are bad-tempered;she is the very opposite.
你的脾气不好；她恰恰相反。
3.It's the very truth.
这是真正的事实。
4.To be young was very heaven.
年纪轻乃是真正的天堂。
5.A verier knave never stepped the earth.
世上从没有过更不折不扣的坏蛋。
本词的一个根本含义就是强调某事物的“本身”（identidy），所以常作“正是”解（句2中的“恰恰”也是从“正是”而来）；强调某事物“名副其实的本身”，所以也常解作“真正的”（句5中的“不折不扣”也是从“真正的”而来）。
当用作“正是”解时，一般其后面的名词都有
定语从句或短语加以限定；当然，如所指明显的，也不一定如此，如句2。如用作“真正的”解时，其后随名词即无需定语从句加以限定。
6.Touch the goblet no more;it will make thy heart sore,to the very core.
别再碰酒杯了；它会使你痛心痛到最痛之处。
7.We made war to the end——to the very end of the end.
我们一直作战到最后——到最后的最后。
8.To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good;the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
老是想着你的举止风度并不是改进它的办法；最好的举止风度就是别想着你自己。
9.Up and down,right and left,in front and behind,to the very edge of horizon were sparkling jewels embedded in black velvet.
上下、左右、前后、以至天际的最边缘到处像是丝绒里嵌着的闪烁的宝石。
以上四例的very实际上也属于“真正的”一类；只是因为与“中心”、“到底”、“极致”等表示“极端”的一类字眼连用，才从“真正的”转成了“最”。
10.There is no sound.The very wind forbears.
一点没有声息，甚至风也不动了。
11.The tremendous shock of the explosion caused the very rocks to tremble.
那爆炸的冲击力之巨大，甚至石块也都颤动。
12.Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of other maidens are.
甚至她的一颦一蹙也比其他少女的笑貌要美丽得多。
13.The very names of the favorite spots are poems in themselves.
甚至那些游览胜地的名称也都富有诗意。
very作为强调词使用，常可强调突出某个一般的名词，而有“甚至”、“连”之义。
14.The very heaven is no heaven,when torn by dissension.
如果分崩离析，即使天堂也不成其为天堂。
15.The very dead would rise in protest against such atrocities.
即使死人，对这样的暴行，也会起而抗议。
16.The veriest coward would fight,if too hard pressed.
逼迫过甚，即使最懦怯的人也会奋起反抗。
17.Everything bears marks of the gradual dilapidations of time,which yet has something touching and pleasing in its very decay.
每件东西上都可以看出年久衰败之象，可是即使在颓朽之中看来仍不乏动心悦目之处。
以上四例的very实际上与前四例的性质相同，只是因句子都含有虚拟性质，故成了“即使”。
18.Whoever tries to be other than himself makes a failure of life,and yet many do this very thing.
谁没有自知之明，强自己学别人的，其人一生一定失败，然而有许多人偏偏就这样行事。
19.The pity is that she should not have taken the very course she ought to have avoided.
可惜的是，她偏偏采取了她所应该避免的道路。
20.No one will deny that it is degrading to play the today to those in power,but they are not few who do this very thing.
谁都不否认向当权之人谄媚是有损人格的，但不少的人偏偏就是这样。
21.Pleasure always dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
快事总是偏偏在我们最入迷之时突然终止。
22.Their biggest blunder was that concessions should have been made in the very items where a rock-firm attitude was imperative.
他们最大的错误是在应该表示绝对坚决的条款上偏偏作了让步。
以上五例的very实际上就是原来的“正是”之意，只是因语句中含有“矛盾”、“反常”、“不合理”一类的语义，因而成了“偏偏”之意。
23.Some small spirits,ashamed of their origin,are always striving to conceal it,and by the very efforts they make to do so,betray themselves.
有些小人物，以自己的出身为耻，总是竭力想加以掩饰；而正因其力求掩饰，反而暴露了自己。
24.Life has no smooth road for any of us;and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps.
人生的道路绝不是平坦的；而在某个崇高理想的振奋气氛中，正因为道路崎岖，反而激励着
攀登者更坚定前进。
25.When one is determined to believe,often the very absurdity of the doctrines confirms him in his faith.
当一个人有着信仰的决心的时候，往往正因其教义之荒谬，反而更坚定其信仰。
26.His very sagacity misled him.
正因为他聪明，反而误引了他。
27.Often the very precocity of a child hampers his fullest development.
往往正因为孩子的早熟，反而阻碍了其最充分的发育。
以上五例的very表明在语义“有悖常情”、“与预期相反”的场合，常可有“正因（为）⋯⋯反而⋯⋯”之意。
28.Your very seniority will entitle you to some such consideration.
仅仅凭你的资历，就够使你得到某种这样的照顾。
29.This very fact ought to dispel all misgivings.
仅仅这桩事实就应该排除掉一切顾虑。
30.The very thought of it is exhilarating.
仅仅想起这一点就令人欢欣。
31.Home has its charms for nearly all and the very name comes with a blessing to the spirit.
家，几乎对所有人都有魅力，仅仅想起这名字就给精神带来愉快。
以上四例的very，其所以有“仅仅”之意，实际上也是从该词的愿意“强调事物之本身”而来，亦即从“不指别的，仅仅指某事、某物本身”之意而来。