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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once more.
-- And as for going as cook, though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
-- That once found out, and all the rest were plain.
-- With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
-- His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The medical gentleman walked away to dinner; and the nurse, having once more applied herself to the green bottle, sat down on a low chair before the fire, and proceeded to dress the infant.
-- To these interrogations Mr. Bumble returned very brief and snappish replies; for the temporary blandness which gin-and-water awakens in some bosoms had by this time evaporated; and he was once again a beadle.
-- It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.
-- Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.
-- Mr. Bumble, was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Darcy danced only once with Mrs. Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, de-clined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in walking about the room, speaking occa-sionally to one of his own party.
-- Mrs. Long told me last night that he sat close to her for half-an-hour without once opening his lips.'
-- 'I had once had some thought of fixing in town myself for I am fond of superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of London would agree with Lady Lu-cas.'
-- My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.'
-- There is no knowing how estates will go when once they come to be entailed.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were so drawn in that direction, that the Italian more than once followed them to and back from the pavement in some surprise.
-- We have been advised more than once when she has been a little ailing, to change climate and air for her as often as we could especially at about this time of her life and to keep her amused.
-- There was the large, hard-featured clock on the sideboard, which he used to see bending its figured brows upon him with a savage joy when he was behind-hand with his lessons, and which, when it was wound up once a week with an iron handle, used to sound as if it were growling in ferocious anticipation of the miseries into which it would bring him.
-- Arthur opened the long low window, and looked out upon the old blasted and blackened forest of chimneys, and the old red glare in the sky, which had seemed to him once upon a time but a nightly reflection of the fiery environment that was presented to his childish fancy in all directions, let it look where it would.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.
-- There was an occasional tempest, and once Jo marched home, declaring she couldn't bear it longer, but Aunt March always cleared up quickly, and sent for her to come back again with such urgency that she could not refuse, for in her heart she rather liked the peppery old lady.
-- Once I was wicked enough to stop in a thrill-ing place, and say meekly, 'I'm afraid it tires you, ma'am.
-- 'Once upon a time, there were four girls, who had enough to eat and drink and wear, a good many comforts and plea-sures, kind friends and parents who loved them dearly, and yet they were not contented.'
-- Laurie enjoyed that immensely, and when she told about the prim old gentleman who came once to woo Aunt March, and in the middle of a fine speech, how Poll had tweaked his wig off to his great dismay, the boy lay back and laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks, and a maid popped her head in to see what was the matter.
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