whereabouts是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 下落, 去向 adv. 在什么地方, 靠近什么地方，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan related the discovery of the document, and the various attempts that had been made to follow up the precise indications given of the whereabouts of the unfortunate captives; and he concluded his account by expressing his doubt whether they should ever find the Captain after all.
-- There was no doubt the fellow knew, if not the present whereabouts of the captain, at least the place of shipwreck.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lizabetha Prokofievna received confirmatory news from the princess and alas, two months after the prince's first departure from St. Petersburg, darkness and mystery once more enveloped his whereabouts and actions, and in the Epanchin family the ice of silence once more formed over the subject.
-- He was given to understand that the subject of Nastasia's present whereabouts was not of the slightest interest to her; and that Nastasia might marry all the princes in the world for all she cared!So Muishkin took his leave hurriedly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whereabouts will she be?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found the porter and obtained from him vague directions as to the whereabouts of Kapernaumov, the tailor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Whereabouts are my clothes?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In other directions, the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow, that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred; and in general there was here, too, that before-mentioned preternatural inversion of light and shade which attends the prospect when the garish brightness commonly in the sky is found on the earth, and the shades of earth are in the sky.
-- In contemplating Bathsheba as a woman, he had forgotten the accidents of her position as an agriculturist that being as much of a farmer, and as extensive a farmer, as himself, her probable whereabouts was out-of-doors at this time of the year.
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：
-- With that queer idea of his to keep his whereabouts secret, it was unlikely that, on leaving, he had said where he was going.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and we had no sooner run out of the cabin to look out, in hopes of see-ing whereabouts in the world we were, than the ship struck upon a sand, and in a moment her motion being so stopped, the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were im-mediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her thoughts now were of a more liberal character, and she punctuated them with speculations as to the whereabouts of Drouet.
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 skimmed around for the watchman, a- wondering whereabouts he slept; and by and by I found him roosting on the bitts forward, with his head down between his knees.
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