about是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在周围； 大约prep. 关于； 在周围a. 准备，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager," replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father lay shrinking with fever on the floor of the wagon-box, and about him played her brothers and sisters, dirty brats, tattered brats, hilarious brats.
-- Oh, the devil!Nobody wants to know about my museum--not a person.
-- But as Martin helped him to his feet he broke away, scrabbled about on his desk, and looked back doubtfully.
-- The co-eds murmured that he "looked so romantic," but as this was before the invention of sex and the era of petting- parties, they merely talked about him at a distance, and he did not know that he could have been a hero of amours.
-- A thousand fables fluttered about him.
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：
-- Translator's Preface few words about Dostoevsky himself may help the Eng-A lish reader to understand his work.
-- The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
-- Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speak-ing into a complete blankness of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it.
-- 'Well, we will talk about it then, sir.'
-- Besides the two drunken men he had met on the steps, a group con-sisting of about five men and a girl with a concertina had gone out at the same time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 192My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind about MeCHAPTER XV .
-- 258I Look about Me, and Make a DiscoveryCHAPTER XX .
-- Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faithand preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that therewas but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorneyconnected with the bill-broking business, who offered two poundsin cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteedfrom drowning on any higher bargain.
-- My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and verylow in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and despondingheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who wasalready welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins in a drawerupstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival;my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy Marchafternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever comingalive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her eyes asshe dried them, to the window opposite, she saw a strange ladycoming up the garden.
-- Therefore shedid as she was told, and did it with such nervous hands that herhair (which was luxuriant and beautiful) fell all about her face.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure she will be an excellent servant; and it will be a great comfort to poor Miss Taylor to have somebody about her that she is used to see.
-- Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
-- He lived about a mile from Highbury, was a frequent visitor, and always welcome, and at this time more welcome than usual, as coming directly from their mutual connexions in London.
-- 'Well,' said Emma, willing to let it pass 'you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.
-- Your time has been properly and delicately spent, if you have been endeav-ouring for the last four years to bring about this marriage.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
-- About twenty steps still remained between him and the gate, when he heard a dispute.
-- The hut stood on little wheels, which raised its floor about a foot from the ground.
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