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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the glossy green cover, in red and black, were the portraits of the president, a round quippish man who loved all young physicians; the general manager, a cadaverous scholarly man who surely gave all his laborious nights and days to the advancement of science; and the vice-president, Martin's former preceptor, Dr. Roscoe Geake, who had a lively, eye-glassed, forward-looking modernity all his own.
-- It was enchanting to be saluted by privates, quite as enchanting to return the salute in the dignified, patronizing, all-comrades- together splendor which Martin shared with the other doctors, professors, lawyers, brokers, authors, and former socialist intellectuals who were his fellow- officers.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a different matter when he met with acquaintances or with former fellow stu-dents, whom, indeed, he disliked meeting at any time.
-- He was cautious in his answer, and said that, of course, as he could not get on without a secretary, it would be better to be paying a salary to a relation than to a stranger, if only the former were fitted for the duties (as though there could be doubt of your being fitted!)
-- At last he was conscious of his former fever and shivering, and he realised with relief that he could lie down on the sofa.
-- His former terror mastered him completely again.
-- Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother drew my right hand forward, but I was resolved, for my former reason, not to give it him, and I did not.
-- My former acquaintance, the carrier, was atthe door; the box was taken out to his cart, and lifted in.
-- As this was a great deal for the carrier (whose name was Mr.Barkis) to sayhe being, as I observed in a former chapter, of aphlegmatic temperament, and not at all conversational- I offeredhim a cake as a mark of attention, which he ate at one gulp, exactlylike an elephant, and which made no more impression on his bigface than it would have done on an elephant's.
-- My father's former calling was umble.
-- Andhaving, I suppose, carried her point, she tapped the Doctor's handseveral times with her fan (which she kissed first), and returnedtriumphantly to her former station.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had resolu-tion enough to pursue her own will in spite of her brother, but not enough to refrain from unreasonable regrets at that brother's unreasonable anger, nor from missing the luxuries of her former home.
-- Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and qua-drille.
-- Former provocations reappeared.
-- A Mrs. Elton would be an excuse for any change of intercourse; former intimacy might sink without remark.
-- Why had not Miss Woodhouse revived the former good old days of the room? She who could do any thing in Highbury!The want of proper families in the place, and the conviction that none beyond the place and its immediate environs could be tempted to attend, were mentioned; but he was not satis-fied.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was room for a little pity, also for a very little exultation: the former at his position, the latter at her own.
-- The book was opened the leaves, drab with age, being quite worn away at much-read verses by the forefingers of unpractised readers in former days, where they were moved along under the line as an aid to the vision.
-- There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure.
-- They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders.
-- Having neither bit nor bridle, Oak and Coggan extemporized the former by passing the rope in each case through the animal's mouth and looping it on the other side.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 莽卢卢 5 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 The color of the men's coats were problematical; such shoes, in more fashionable quarters, are only to be seen lying in the gutter; the cuffs and collars were worn and frayed at the edges; every limp article of clothing looked like the ghost of its former self.
-- In spite of the ravages of conflicting passions, her face retained some traces of its former fairness and fineness of tissue, some vestiges of the physical charms of her youth still survived.
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