former是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 以前的， 在前的pron. 前者，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, 'Poor boy.'
-- Scrooge's former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty.
-- Scrooge's former self, now grown a young man, came briskly in, accompanied by his fellow-prentice.
-- His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self.
-- It was not until now, when the bright faces of his former self and Dick were turned from them, that he remembered the Ghost, and became conscious that it was looking full upon him, while the light upon its head burnt very clear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this odd description of his daily routine of em-ployment, Mr. Lorry flattened his flaxen wig upon his head with both hands (which was most unnecessary, for nothing could be flatter than its shining surface was before), and re-sumed his former attitude.
-- For, people then paid to see the play at the Old Bailey, just as they paid to see the play in Bed-lam only the former entertainment was much the dearer.
-- 'There is not,' pursued the nephew, in his former tone, 'a face I can look at, in all this country round about us, which looks at me with any deference on it but the dark deference of fear and slavery.'
-- Charles Darnay, mysteries arise out of close love, as well as out of wide division; in the former case, they are subtle and delicate, and difficult to penetrate.
-- One cannot help thinking, having had some sympathy for the miserable peo-ple, and having abandoned something to them,' he spoke here in his former thoughtful manner, 'that one might be listened to, and might have the power to persuade to some restraint.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the former inhabitant of the Canary Isles, continuing his dithyrambic.
-- THE OLD HOUSE In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house-it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole verses spelled as in former times, and over every win-dow was a distorted face cut out in the beam.
-- In the middle of the wall hung a picture representing a beautiful lady, so young, so glad, but dressed quite as in former times, with clothes that stood quite stiff, and with powder in her hair; she neither said 'thankee, thankee!'
-- The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made fricassees of, ate, and said, 'Hem, hem!how delicious!'
-- So the shadow said THOU to its former master.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know they say men tell their wives of their former lives, but Stiva"--she corrected herself--"Stepan Arkadyevitch told me nothing.
-- She felt sure she would dance the mazurka with him as she had done at former balls, and refused five young men, saying she was engaged for the mazurka.
-- As in former years, at the beginning of the spring he had gone to a foreign watering-place for the sake of his health, deranged by the winter's work that every year grew heavier.
-- "Good morning, princess," said Anna Pavlovna, with an assumed smile utterly unlike her former manner.
-- And by no effort of the imagination could Kitty bring back the former Madame Stahl.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, sauntered about among the mixed population of Somalis, Banyans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Aden.
-- Hong Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds its depot at the former place.
-- Fix's manner had not changed; but Passepartout was very reserved, and ready to strangle his former friend on the slightest provocation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and had answer that the place was filled, that they had not greatly liked the tone of his former letter, and they did not "care to go into the matter further."
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