p.m.是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 下午， 午后，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That for six thousand years and no one knows how many millions of ages before the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are, after all, really water, or nothing but vapor this is surely a noteworthy thing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At 2 P.M. the following telegraphic reply was received: "LORD GLENARVAN, Eden.
-- At 11 o'clock she dropped anchor off Dunbarton, and at 2 P.M. the passengers arrived at Malcolm Castle amidst the enthusiastic cheering of the Highlanders.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don't expect me to describe it, that's impossible, so I'll only say it was sub-lime!This evening we are going to see Fechter, which will be an appropriate end to the happiest day of my life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In eighty days; on Saturday, the 21st of December, 1872, at a quarter before nine p.m. Good-bye, gentlemen."
-- "Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience, Mr.
-- He took up his note-book, which contained the following memoranda:"Left London, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8.45 p.m. "Reached Paris, Thursday, October 3rd, at 7.20 a.m. "Left Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m. "Reached Turin by Mont Cenis, Friday, October 4th, at 6.35 a.m. "Left Turin, Friday, at 7.20 a.m. "Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, October 5th, at 4 p.m. "Sailed on the Mongolia, Saturday, at 5 p.m. "Reached Suez, Wednesday, October 9th, at 11 a.m. "Total of hours spent, 158+; or, in days, six days and a half."
-- At six p.m. the Mongolia slowly moved out of the roadstead, and was soon once more on the Indian Ocean.
-- Two hours!Admitting that he was at this moment taking an express train, he could reach London and the Reform Club by a quarter before nine, p.m. His forehead slightly wrinkled.