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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody contradicted him, as he was supposed to know; but Lady Helena exclaimed, "What does it matter about the bottle, if we don't know where it comes from?"
-- Look at those petrifactions all over it, these different substances almost turned to mineral, we might say, through the action of the salt water!This waif had been tossing about in the ocean a long time before the shark swallowed it."
-- "Then I suppose it is about a captain and two sailors," said Lady Helena.
-- I think we can make out from the incomplete words in the first line that a three-mast vessel is in question, and there is little doubt about the name; we get that from the fragments of the other papers; it is the BRITANNIA.
-- [7th of June, 1862 three-mast BRITANNIA Glasgow]foundered gonie southernon the coast two sailors GrCaptain landedcontin pr cruel indi thrown this document in longitudeand 37 degrees 11" latitude Bring them assistance lostJust at that moment one of the sailors came to inform the captain that they were about entering the Firth of Clyde, and to ask what were his orders.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
-- 'As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you,' said I, 'but at least it is not difficult to find out a few -particulars about the man's age and professional career.'
-- 'It was at my advice that Sir Charles was about to go to London.
-- The walk in the centre is about eight feet across.'
-- 'Yes, there is a strip of grass about six feet broad on ei-ther side.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes.
-- The wearer of this cloak was a young fellow, also of about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, slightly above the middle height, very fair, with a thin, pointed and very light coloured beard; his eyes were large and blue, and had an in-tent look about them, yet that heavy expression which some people affirm to be a peculiarity.
-- exclaimed another pas-senger, a shabbily dressed man of about forty, who looked like a clerk, and possessed a red nose and a very blotchy face.
-- These men generally have about a hundred pounds a year to live on, and they spend their whole time and talents in the amassing of this style of knowledge, which they reduce or raise to the standard of a science.
-- asked the prince, looking at the millionaire with considerable curiosity But though there may have been something remarkable in the fact that this man was heir to millions of roubles there was something about him which surprised and interested the prince more than that.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Old man,' said he, 'let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter.
-- With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus: 'Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in sub-jection.
-- 'The god,' he said, 'is -angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others.
-- I came from distant Pylos, and went about among them, for they would have me come, and I fought as it was in me to do.
-- Further-more I say and lay my saying to your heart I shall fight neither you nor any man about this girl, for those that take were those also that gave.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not sure she had heard him, and was about to repeat her question.
-- He wore a dark-brown velvet jacket with a high, black, linen-lined collar turned up about his neck.
-- She went quite softly to the kitchen, and was too preoccupied to ask Millie what she was messing about with now, when she got there.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was about to put the last touches on the finger tips, Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off.
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