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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the fourth year of his residence in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve he was no longer like his former self.
-- He had not dined at the Maison Vauquer; the boarders probably would think that he would walk home at daybreak from the dance, as he had done sometimes on former occasions, after a fete at the Prado, or a ball at the Odeon, splashing his silk stockings thereby, and ruining his pumps.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned un-til he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
-- Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discov-ered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.
-- If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimeri-34 Frankensteincal, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrip-pa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
-- I gave him pretty nearly the same account of my former pursuits as I had given to his fellow professor.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value,Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the "best damn valet on the Coast," wasthe first step upward toward his heart's desire, Gerald wanted to be a slave owner and a landed gentleman.
-- Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found lifeintolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
-- "I was almost on the point of forgiving you for your former boorish conduct but now I shan't do it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Pumblechook, with his former laugh.
-- I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she checked me with her former impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand.
-- When we had played some half-dozen games, a day was appointed for my return, and I was taken down into the yard to be fed in the former dog-like manner.
-- "Which it is well beknown to yourself, Pip," returned Joe, strengthening his former mixture of argumentation, confidence, and politeness, "that it were the wish of your own hart."
-- If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then her kind friend the bird brought a dress still finer than the former one, and slippers which were all of gold: so that when she came to the feast no one knew what to say, for wonder at her beauty: and the king's son danced with no-body but her; and when anyone else asked her to dance, he said, 'This lady is my partner, sir.'
-- Thereupon she took her leave of her father, and rode away with them, and rode to the court of her former betrothed, whom she loved so dearly.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the former were after-wards repeated and explained to me); whereupon, immediately, about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of him that was to speak.
-- I took these 26 Gulliver's Travelsvehicles and soon emptied them all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former af-forded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor of ten vessels, which was contained in earthen vials, into one vehicle, drinking it off at a draught; and so I did with the rest.
-- It was a custom introduced by this prince and his minis-try (very different, as I have been assured, from the practice of former times,) that after the court had decreed any cru-el execution, either to gratify the monarch's resentment, or the malice of a favourite, the emperor always made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and ten-derness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world.
-- He desired 'I would give him as exact an account of the government of England as I possibly could; because, as fond as princes commonly are of their own customs (for so he conjectured of other mon-archs, by my former discourses), he should be glad to hear of any thing that might deserve imitation.'
-- He said 'it was very reasonable to think, not only that the species of men were originally much larger, but also that there must have been giants in former ages; which, as it is asserted by history and tradition, so it has been confirmed by huge bones and skulls, casually dug up in several parts of the kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of men in our days.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. and Miss Gradgrind being then announced, he received the former with a shake of the hand, and the latter with a kiss.
-- 'There is one thing to be said of it,' Louisa repeated in her former curious tone; 'it will be getting away from home.
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