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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's a steep road by the down, sir," she said in answer to the question about a trap; and then, snatching at an opening, said, "It was there a carriage was upsettled, a year ago and more.
-- Mrs. Hall was about to leave the room she made no conversational advances this time, because she did not want to be snubbed in front of Mr. Henfrey when her visitor asked her if she had made any arrangements about his boxes at Bramblehurst.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
-- There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about lat-itude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months.
-- We could not stand up to look about us, because of the pitching of the boat.
-- But go on!go on!tell me about the boat.'
-- He began to question me closely about Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the jackal Tabaqui, the Dish-licker and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about mak-ing mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
-- Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely as he tumbled about in the scrub.
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
-- They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is for-gotten.
-- What Baloo had said about the monkeys was perfectly true.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- On the con-trary, there was an air of neglect about his person, like that which might have proceeded from great and recent exer-tion, which he had not yet found leisure to repair.
-- The colors of the war-paint had blended in dark confusion about his fierce countenance, and rendered his swarthy lineaments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance.
-- I understand not your allusions about lines and an-gles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.
-- Adjusting his rifle, he was about to make an exhibition of that skill on which he so much valued himself, when the warrior struck up the piece with his hand, saying: 'Hawkeye!will you fight the Maquas?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
-- Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night; swal-lows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; an rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watch-ing the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
-- A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regi-ments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and Guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse; and certainly the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in representing the great figures of romance as patterns of the domestic virtues.
-- Chapter IIWhen so much has been written about Charles Strickland, it may seem unnecessary that I should write more.
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