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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their former dwelling was not, however, to be entirely abandoned, for the engineer intended to make a manufactory of it for important works.
-- Cyrus Harding did not yet realize his plan of drowning this opening under the waters of the lake, by restoring them to their former level by means of a dam.
-- They dragged with them a sort of rough cart, which replaced the former inconvenient hurdle, and brought back some thousands of oysters, which soon increased among the rocks and formed a bed at the mouth of the Mercy.
-- The latter was less abrupt, but the former more wooded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man had again relapsed into his former abstraction and took no notice of what passed, but I remarked that when her laugh was over, the child's bright eyes were dimmed with tears, called forth by the fullness of heart with which she welcomed her uncouth favourite after the little anxiety of the night.
-- It will be all the better for coming late'; and then he sighed and fell into his former musing state, and still holding the child between his knees appeared to be insensible to everything around him.
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- As he renewed his entreaties on our being left alone, and adverted with many thanks to the former occasion of our being together, I willingly yielded to his persuasions, and sat down, pretending to examine some curious miniatures and a few old medals which he placed before me.
-- said Mr Swiveller, finding that his former adjuration had been productive of no effect.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that he found himself the owner of vast estates, he was confronted by two alternatives: either to waive his ownership in favor of the peasants, as he did ten years ago with the two hundred acres, or, by tacit acquiescence, confess that all his former ideas were erroneous and false.
-- By the expression of Matriena Pavlovna's face he saw that she condemned him, and justly so; he knew that what he was doing was wrong, but the animal feeling, which succeeded his former feeling of pure love to her, seized him and held sole sway over him; recognizing no other feeling.
-- Not only was the old arrangement of things continued, but, as in former times, the house received a general cleaning.
-- she said, drawlingly, smiling and vigorously shaking his hand, not as on the former occasion.
-- Finally the prisoners and visitors began to depart--the former passing through the inner, the latter through the outer, door.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives."
-- Very cautiously, for I remembered my former headlong fall, I began to reverse my motion.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as I was back again he returned to his former manner, half fawning, half sneering, patted me on the shoulder, told me I was a good boy and he had taken quite a fancy to me.
-- Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.
-- Before I could do much to help him he had fallen back again to his former place, where he lay for a while silent.
-- One I recognized for the coxswain's, Israel Hands, that had been Flint's gunner in former days.
-- "Here they come," said I; and I returned to my former position, for it seemed beneath my dignity that they should find me watching them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Motionless yet, when bent to one side by the hand, they directly resumed their former position.
-- "Yes, my boy, it forms a perfect bar to the Straits of Lybia, and the soundings of Smith have proved that in former times the continents between Cape Boco and Cape Furina were joined."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came back with the towels, and took his former position, crouching seated before the fire on the fender.
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