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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment a hundred Maories were assembled in the "pah," old men, full grown men, youths; the former were calm, but gloomy, awaiting the orders of Kai-Koumou; the others gave themselves up to the most violent sorrow, bewailing their parents and friends who had fallen in the late engagements.
-- Ayrton had become animated while he was speaking, but soon relapsed into his former indifference.
-- said the Major; "your imagination goes too far, Paganel; and you forget your former deductions."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'H'm!yes; did you live in Petersburg in former years?'
-- Not only was there no trace of her former irony, of her old hatred and enmity, and of that dreadful laughter, the very recollection of which sent a cold chill down Totski's back to this very day; but she seemed charmed and really glad to have the opportunity of talking seriously with him for once in a way.
-- She did not consider herself to blame for anything that had happened in former years, and she thought that Gavrila Ardalionovitch should be informed as to the relations which had existed between herself and Totski during the last five years.
-- 'I am telling you the truth,' said the prince in his former composed tone of voice; 'and believe me, I am extremely sorry that the circumstance should have made such an un-pleasant impression upon you!'
-- But, of late, Totski had observed many strange and origi-nal features and characteristics in Nastasia, which he had neither known nor reckoned upon in former times, and some of these fascinated him, even now, in spite of the fact that all his old calculations with regard to her were long ago cast to the winds.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus spoke the goddess, and Helen's heart yearned after her former husband, her city, and her parents.
-- 'My child,' said he, 'take your seat in front of me that you may see your former hus-band, your kinsmen and your friends.
-- So long as Phoe-bus Apollo held his aegis quietly and without shaking it, the weapons on either side took effect and the people fell, but when he shook it straight in the face of the Danaans and raised his mighty battle-cry their hearts fainted within them and they forgot their former prowess.
-- As a flock of daws or starlings fall to screaming and chattering when they see a falcon, foe to all small birds, come soaring near them, even so did the Achaean youth raise a babel of cries as they fled before Ae-neas and Hector, unmindful of their former prowess.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Right you are," said the intruder in the former voice.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the sight of the former the staghounds, who had all tired of barking at me by this time, became furiously excited, howling and leaping against their chains.
-- It was soon evident to me that the former monster had tasted blood, and gone the way of the Leopard-man.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the character of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which it had been placed by the talents and enterprise of her former warriors and statesmen.
-- At each change in the evolutions of the latter, the former raised his tall person in the stirrups; producing, in this manner, by the undue elon-gation of his legs, such sudden growths and diminishings of the stature, as baffled every conjecture that might be made as to his dimensions.
-- The former was seated on the end of a mossy log, in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect of his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate.
-- He listened like one who was convinced, and resumed his narrative in his former solemn manner.
-- returned the other, raising himself with dignity, and resuming his seat on the log with his former composure.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- Certain it is, this was not the case with the redoubtable Brom Bones; and from the moment Ichabod Crane made his advances, the interests of the former evidently declined: his horse was no longer seen tied to the palings on Sunday nights, and a deadly feud gradually arose between him and the preceptor of Sleepy Hollow.
-- When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old V an Tassel, sat smoking at one end of the piazza, gossiping over former times, and drawing out long stories about the war.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft at the beginning of the year had gone to Richmond on business, with a young boy of fifteen from New Jersey, son of a former captain, an orphan, whom he loved as if he had been his own child.
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