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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A door onbust is always open to bustin', but ye can't onbust a door once you've busted en."
-- And on the table under the window where the stranger had been wont to work, Cuss had hit almost at once on three big books in manuscript labelled "Diary."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was evidently satisfied with the frankness of my story, which I told in concise sentences enough, for I felt horribly weak; and when it was finished he reverted at once to the topic of Natural History and his own biological studies.
-- Once or twice as I stood waiting there for things to accomplish themselves, I could not resist an impulse to laugh at my miserable quandary.
-- We see a ship once in a twelve-month or so.'
-- This inner door Montgomery at once closed.
-- He might perhaps have purchased his social peace by abandoning his investi-gations; but he apparently preferred the latter, as most men would who have once fallen under the overmastering spell of research.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as soon as his cubs are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the Pack Council, which is generally held once a month at full moon, in order that the other wolves may identify them.
-- He had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth, and once he had been beaten and left for dead; so he knew the manners and customs of men.
-- Mother Wolf told him once or twice that Shere Khan was not a creature to be trusted, and that some day he must kill Shere Khan.
-- Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this, and once or twice he told Mowgli in so many words that Shere Khan would kill him some day.
-- 'He sleeps for a full month after he has once eaten.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accident, or one of those un-accountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in America, and distinguished by their habit of pacing.
-- Once sure of that, and where women are con-cerned it is not easy, the next is, to act up to the decision.
-- The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward, who, in his turn, spoke to the stranger; at once interrupting, and, for the time, closing his musical efforts.
-- repeated the sturdy scout, once more shaking his head in open distrust; 'they are a thievish race, nor do I care by whom they are adopted; you can never make any-thing of them but skulls and vagabonds.
-- Chapter 6 'Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God', he says, with solemn air.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- Once more he cudgelled the sides of the inflexible Gunpowder, and, shutting his eyes, broke forth with involuntary fervor into a psalm tune.
-- Just then the shadowy object of alarm put itself in motion, and with a scramble and a bound stood at once in the middle of the road.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
-- Mrs. Strickland did not talk much, but she had a pleasant gift for keeping the conversation general; and when there was a pause she threw in just the right remark to set it going once more.
-- Once or twice Mrs. Strickland's eyes rested on him somewhat anxiously.
-- I realised that he had come away with me in order to discuss once more what he had been already discussing for hours with his sister-in-law.
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