mostly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 几乎全部地； 主要地， 大部分， 基本上，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, from the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Dar-nay's way the way of the love of a woman.
-- As the boat so favoured is usually in a rough plight, and mostly under water, so, Sydney had a swamped life of 300 A tale of two citiesit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm awfully sorry for that, for my tastes are mostly bad," said Yashvin, gnawing at his left mustache.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tributaries of the Godavery.
-- The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers.
-- Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything.
-- The country around the lake was well cultivated, for the Mormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens for domesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and other cereals, luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rose, clumps of acacias and milk-wort, would have been seen six months later.
-- But they were mostly sailing vessels, of which, of course, Phileas Fogg could make no use.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He occasionally protested that the Reverend Ira Hinkley was a village policeman and Irving Watters a plumber, that Angus Duer would walk to success over his grandmother's head, and that for an idiot like Fatty Pfaff to practice on helpless human beings was criminal, but mostly he ignored them and ceased to be a pest.
-- They were all in business suits, mostly unpressed.
-- He was playing with cultures isolated from various dairies and various people, thinking mostly of Klopchuk and streptococcus.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Sonia comes to us now, mostly after dark; she comforts Katerina Ivanovna and gives her all she can芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A certain man named Gregory, who was foreman of thepackers, and another named Tipp, who was the carman, and worea red jacket, used to address me sometimes as 'David': but I think itwas mostly when we were very confidential, and when I had madesome efforts to entertain them, over our work, with some results ofthe old readings; which were fast perishing out of myremembrance.
-- 'Mostly afoot,' he rejoined; 'sometimes in carts along with peoplegoing to market; sometimes in empty coaches.
-- We umble ones havegot eyes, mostly speaking- and we look out of 'em.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Elton was to take the drawing to London, chuse the frame, and give the directions; and Emma thought she could so pack it as to ensure its safety without much incom-moding him, while he seemed mostly fearful of not being incommoded enough.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the luminous streams of this aurora militaris, she could see the hue of Troy's sword arm, spread in a scarlet haze over the space covered by its motions, like a twanged harpstring, and behind all Troy himself, mostly facing her; sometimes, to show the rear cuts, half turned away, his eye nevertheless always keenly measuring her breadth and outline, and his lips tightly closed in sustained effort.
-- He mostly makes a point of seeing me upon the most trifling errand."
-- She glided rapidly up and down the room, as was mostly her habit when excited, her hands hanging clasped in front of her, as she thought and in part expressed in broken words: "O, I hate her, yet I don't mean that I hate her, for it is grievous and wicked; and yet I hate her a little!Yes, my flesh insists upon hating her, whether my spirit is willing or no!...
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, in all probability, was a strongly-build animal, whose brains mostly consisted in a capacity for affection.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidencein her own charms.
-- Those she found on the ground were mostly rotten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a reasonably good path now, mostly on the edge of the river, with a divergence here and there where a dike came, with a miniature windmill on it and a muddy sluice-gate.
-- On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns.
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