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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
-- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home; upon which our master ordered out the sheet-anchor, so that we rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the bitter end.
-- My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a- fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth - the Maresco, as they called him - to catch a dish of fish for him.
-- Once or twice in the daytime I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries, and had a great mind to venture out, in hopes of reaching thither; but having tried twice, I was forced in again by contrary winds, the sea also going too high for my little vessel; so, I resolved to pursue my first design, and keep along the shore.
-- Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consider," she added, "that when the money is once parted with, it never can return.
-- But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
-- His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence.
-- "I remember last Christmas at a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o'clock till four, without once sitting down."
-- I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago.
-- Let him meet with a young woman once and he would approach her with an air of kindly familiarity, not unmixed with pleading, which would result in most cases in a tolerant acceptance.
-- Once an individual has passed this faint line on the way downward he will get no glance from her.
-- Chapter III WEE QUESTION OF FORTUNE--FOUR-FIFTY A WEEK Once across the river and into the wholesale district, she glanced about her for some likely door at which to apply.
-- In this way she passed many manufacturing and wholesale houses without once glancing in.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was most ready to cry; but all at once I thought of a way, and so I offered them Miss Watson they could kill her.
-- Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks.
-- Once he locked me in and was gone three days.
-- Once when I turned short and dodged under his arm he made a grab and got me by the jacket between my shoulders, and I thought I was gone; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning, and saved myself.
-- Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thir-teen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
-- "It can easily be seen that I only thought I heard the tiny voice say the words!Well, well--to work once more."
-- "It can easily be seen I only imagined I heard the tiny voice!Well, well--to work once more!"
-- To see you run away from home once more?"
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