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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind continued to beat about the corners of the hut, but the flute-playing ceased.
-- He carried a lantern in his hand, and closing the door behind him, came forward and busied himself about this nook of the field for nearly twenty minutes, the lantern light appearing and disappearing here and there, and brightening him or darkening him as he stood before or behind it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most heedless passer-by feels the depressing influences of a place where the sound of wheels creates a sensation; there is a grim look about the houses, a suggestion of a jail about those high garden walls.
-- The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes.
-- The red tiles of the floor are full of depressions brought about by scouring and periodical renewings of color.
-- Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in autumn; there are wrinkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in short, she is at once the embodiment and interpretation of her lodging-house, as surely as her lodging-house implies the existence of its mistress.
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
-- I am practi-cally industrious painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common path-ways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
-- About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.
-- About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
-- We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to en-counter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I know you two don't care about being expelled, or Tom either," she said.
-- "But what about Boyd?
-- Why, Ashley Wilkes and hisfather told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to to an amicable agreement withMr. Lincoln about the Confederacy.
-- There won't be any war,and I'm tired of hearing about it."
-- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come tosee him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!And that's allthe boys talk about, too, that and their old Troop.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- said he, glancing about him over the cold wet flat.
-- "Well," said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, "she's been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip.
-- After that, he sat feeling his right-side flaxen curls and whisker, and following Mrs. Joe about with his blue eyes, as his manner always was at squally times.
-- He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.
-- The gar-dener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing.
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