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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quite overpowered by the magnificence of these transactions, I asked him where the ships he insured mostly traded to at present?
-- They were mostly of a felonious character; comprising the pen with which a celebrated forgery had been committed, a distinguished razor or two, some locks of hair, and several manuscript confessions written under condemnation,--upon which Mr. Wemmick set particular value as being, to use his own words, "every one of 'em Lies, sir."
-- If he's always right (which in general he's more likely wrong), he's right when he says this: Supposing ever you kep any little matter to yourself, when you was a little child, you kep it mostly because you know'd as J. Gargery's power to part you and Tickler in sunders were not fully equal to his inclinations.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poets who glorified it were mostly men.
-- 'They mostly do,' he said; then he caught himself up.
-- She went out alone every day now, mostly in the wood, where she was re-ally alone.
-- Or rather, it was mostly Mrs Bolton talking.
-- But they're mostly women who've got into debt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what I mean when I say that people who put themselves in the same position are mostly used in the same way ''In England,' said Mr Meagles.
-- The College visitors were melting away as the shades of night drew on, but the yard was still pretty full, the Collegians being mostly out, seeing their friends to the Lodge.
-- In this same Society (if that were it which came to his dinners, and to Mrs Merdle's receptions and concerts), he hardly seemed to enjoy himself much, and was mostly to be found against walls and behind doors.
-- Miss Wade mostly lives abroad, Mr Clennam.
-- 'Mostly at all times of the year, sir.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.
-- They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew, upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital, sore exhausted and worn out.
-- The original matter touching the sperm whale to be found in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes, it is of excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific description.
-- But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology.
-- He is mostly found in the circumpolar seas.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The look and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him with freedom, I feared mostly their treachery and ill- us-age of me, if I put my life in their hands; for that gratitude was no inherent virtue in the nature of man, nor did men always square their dealings by the obligations they had re-ceived so much as they did by the advantages they expected.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had time for some lone wanderings, but mostly he filled her hours with sight-seeing.
-- He seemed to notice that she listened and rather sympathised with him, and from now on he talked mostly to her.
-- He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt Pol- ly Tom's Aunt Polly, she is and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
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