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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose, though, in the meantime, I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to business, and frequently expos-tulated with my father and mother about their being so positively determined against what they knew my incli-nations prompted me to.
-- But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon-don.
-- Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
-- I got up out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw: the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered.
-- But if I can express at this dis-tance the thoughts I had about me at that time, I was in tenfold more horror of mind upon account of my former convictions, and the having returned from them to the res-olutions I had wickedly taken at first, than I was at death itself; and these, added to the terror of the storm, put me into such a condition that I can by no words describe it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it is, without any addition of mine, they will each have about three thousand pounds on their mother's death a very comfortable fortune for any young woman."
-- There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
-- On each side of the entrance was a sitting room, about sixteen feet square; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs.
-- Perhaps in the spring, if I have plenty of money, as I dare say I shall, we may think about building.
-- Sir John Middleton was a good looking man about forty.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a few minutes he had come about into her seat.
-- They were under a great shadowy train shed, where the lamps were already beginning to shine out, with passenger cars all about and the train moving at a snail's pace.
-- The people in the car were all up and crowding about the door.
-- Carrie nodded and asked her sister about the neighbourhood.
-- The latter talked in a subdued tone, telling the little she knew about it, while Hanson concerned himself with the baby.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnScene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago Chapter I OU don't know about me without you have read a book Yby the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
-- Aunt Pol- ly Tom's Aunt Polly, she is and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
-- After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.
-- They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
-- Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to any- body, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee, little voice say in a beseeching tone: "Please be careful!Do not hit me so hard!"
-- He turned frightened eyes about the room to find out where that wee, little voice had come from and he saw no one!He looked under the bench--no one!He peeped inside the closet--no one!He searched among the shavings-- no one!He opened the door to look up and down the street--and still no one!
-- With these words, he grabbed the log with both hands and started to knock it about unmercifully.
-- But as he was about to give it to his friend, with a violent jerk it slipped out of his hands and hit against poor Geppetto's thin legs.
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