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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the son thought to himself, 'What can such a beast as this know about the matter?'
-- When they came to the village, the son followed the fox's counsel, and without looking about him went to the shabby inn and rested there all night at his ease.
-- Then he did not stay to think about the mat-ter, but paid what was asked, and his brothers were given up, and went on with him towards their home.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being al-ready spent with labour while we were in the ship.
-- We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We don't want to know anything about that, here.
-- You mustn't tell us about that, here.
-- 'You mustn't tell us about the ring, here.
-- And he had it in charge from high authority to bring about the great public-office Millennium, when Commissioners should reign upon earth.
-- He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the world (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory--my uncle being absent at the time--I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues--i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.
-- But before I state the subject on which my uncle wished to confer with me, I must say a word about his personal appearance.
-- To my fancy he was making a great fuss about nothing, but it was not my province to say so.
-- I was about to venture upon some misplaced joke on the subject, when a small scrap of parchment fell out of the leaves.
-- It was about five inches by three and was scrawled over in the mos t extraordinary fashion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he could drive himself slow-ly round the garden and into the line melancholy park, of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
-- That the poets and talkers about sex did not seem to have taken sufficiently into account.
-- When Miss Chatterley Emma came down to London from the Midlands to do some nursing work, she was very witty in a quiet way about Sir Geoffrey and his determined patriotism.
-- At least people of a differ-ent class, like Connie, were earnest about something.
-- They were rather earnest about the Tommies, and the threat of conscription, and the shortage of sugar and toffee for the children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there.
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