once是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 一次， 曾经conj. 一(旦) …就…n. 一次，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak resolved to sleep at Weatherbury that night on his way to Shottsford, and struck out at once into the high road which had been recommended as the direct route to the village in question.
-- If the fire once got under this stack, all would be lost.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
-- The paneled walls of that apartment were once painted some color, now a matter of conjecture, for the surface is incrusted with accumulated layers of grimy deposit, which cover it with fantastic outlines.
-- Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in autumn; there are wrinkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in short, she is at once the embodiment and interpretation of her lodging-house, as surely as her lodging-house implies the existence of its mistress.
-- The good soul, therefore, took Victorine to mass every Sunday, and to confession once a fortnight, thinking that, in any case, she would bring up her ward to be devout.
-- Once every year she tried to see him to deliver her mother's message of forgiveness, but every year hitherto she had knocked at that door in vain; her father was inexorable.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing her-self at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.
-- He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing de-gree.
-- I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.
-- You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
-- It advanced from behind the moun-tains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.
-- If Gerald once got on the subject of war and secession, it would be hours before he relinquished itShe broke in with another line.
-- With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenanton the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.
-- The kneeling figures, the soft glow of the lamp, the dim shadows where the negroes swayed, even thefamiliar objects that had been so hateful to her sight an hour ago, in an instant took on the color of her own emotions,and the room seemed once more a lovely place.
-- "Mother won't have timeto send me back to change once I'm dressed."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- Once more?
-- There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars once a quarter.
-- As Estella dealt the cards, I glanced at the dressing-table again, and saw that the shoe upon it, once white, now yellow, had never been worn.
-- I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, 'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
-- If you had, you would have carried away both the bird and the horse; yet will I once more give you counsel.
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