vacant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 空的, 未被占用的; 空虚的, 无表情的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I see a vacant seat,' replied the Ghost, 'in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then simi-larly, at the floor on the other side of him; then, upward at the speaker.
-- So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze, pausing in his work.
-- The servant who spoke, had thrown the blinds wide, had looked out into the vacant darkness, and stood with that blank behind him, looking round for instructions.
-- A man, so besmeared that he might have been a sorely wounded soldier creeping back to consciousness on a field of slain, was rising from the pave-ment by the side of the grindstone, and looking about him with a vacant air.
-- Then, they ele-vated into the vacant chair a young woman from the crowd to be carried as the Goddess of Liberty, and then swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets, and along the river's bank, and over the bridge, the Carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last car was only occupied by a dozen passengers, whom the conductor politely asked if they would not be so kind as to leave it vacant for a few moments, as two gentlemen had an affair of honour to settle.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked like a distended hot-water bottle; he was magnificently imbecile; he believed everything, he knew nothing, he could memorize nothing; and anxiously he forgave the men who got through the vacant hours by playing jokes upon him.
-- He looked at them--Fatty Pfaff in the front row, his face vacant as a doorknob; the co-eds emotional and frightened; only Martin Arrowsmith and Angus Duer visibly intelligent.
-- He looked out on a vacant lot in which a tattered advertisement of pork and beans flapped on a leaning billboard.
-- "There's a couple of vacant rooms behind the Eagle office."
-- That's vacant now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Theyreceived me and Peggotty in an affectionate manner, and shookhands with Mr. Barkis, who, with his hat on the very back of hishead and a shamefaced leer upon his countenance, and pervading 135his very legs, presented but a vacant appearance, I thought.
-- On the very first evening after our arrival, Mr. Barkis appeared inan exceedingly vacant and awkward condition, and with a bundleof oranges tied up in a handkerchief.
-- Mr. Dick, as I have already said, was grey-headed and florid: Ishould have said all about him, in saying so, had not his head beencuriously bowed- not by age; it reminded me of one of Mr.Creakle's boys' heads after a beating- and his grey eyes prominentand large, with a strange kind of watery brightness in them thatmade me, in combination with his vacant manner, his submissionto my aunt, and his childish delight when she praised him, suspecthim of being a little mad; though, if he were mad, how he came tobe there, puzzled me extremely.
-- 'And it was-' 'That only I would occupy this vacant place.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and by Mr. Elton, a young man living alone with-out liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse's drawing-room, and the smiles of his love-ly daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.
-- Compressed into the very lowest vacant corner were these words 'I had not a spare moment on Tuesday, as you know, for Miss Woodhouse's beautiful little friend.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to expect assistance, and the seat at the bottom of the table was at her request left vacant until after they had begun the meal.
-- Troy entered Weatherbury churchyard about ten o'clock and went immediately to the corner where he had marked the vacant grave early in the morning.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her vacant gaze sent a chill through you; her shriveled face seemed like a menace.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the whole island there were but three miserable huts, and one of these was vacant when I arrived.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where vacant lots had been a year before, there were now factories turningout harness, saddles and shoes, ordnance-supply plants making rifles and cannon, rolling mills and foundries producingiron rails and freight cars to replace those destroyed by the Yankees, and a variety of industries manufacturing spurs,bridle bits, buckles, tents, buttons, pistols and swords.
-- The stores and the new war buildings were farther apart now, with vacant lots between.
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