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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Orpah, a vivid, sensational, subtle widow, would go back to the former life, a repetition.
-- Nevertheless, she sank down again, in her former posture.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She returned presently, bringing a s moking basin and a basket of work; and, having placed the former on the hob, drew in her seat, evidently pleased to find me so companionable.
-- The former was a boy of fourteen, but when he drew out what had been a fiddle, crushed to morsels in the great coat, he blubbered aloud; and Cathy, when she learned the master had lost her whip in attendin g on the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing; earning for her pains a sound blow from her father, to teach her cleaner manners.
-- He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.
-- The last, however, goes for nothing: you would love him without that, probably; and with it you wouldn't, unless he possessed the four former attractions.
-- We thought a bolt had fallen in the middle of us; and Joseph swung on to his knees, beseeching the Lord to remember the patriarchs Noah and Lot, and, as in former times, spare the righteous, though he smote the ung odly.
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