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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the kind words they said about my book made me excessively uncomfortable.
-- "She's raving about your book."
-- I noticed nothing about her except that she had a pleasant voice.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
-- They were thrown about and whirled round and round without feeling the rotation in the slightest degree, or being sensible that they were removed from a horizontal position.
-- A true Northerner, thin, bony, lean, about forty-five years of age; his close-cut hair and his beard, of which he only kept a thick mustache, were already getting gray.
-- He was a man of about thirty, vigorous, active, clever, intelligent, gentle, and calm, sometimes naive, always merry, obliging, and honest.
-- This was a sailor named Pencroft, a man of about thirty- five or forty years of age, strongly built, very sunburnt, and possessed of a pair of bright sparkling eyes and a remarkably good physiognomy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.
-- The story I am about to relate, and to which I shall recur at intervals, arose out of one of these rambles; and thus I have been led to speak of them by way of preface.
-- She walked on as before, growing more familiar with me as we proceeded and talking cheerfully by the way, but she said no more about her home, beyond remarking that we were going quite a new road and asking if it were a short one.
-- While we were sitting thus in silence, the door of the closet opened, and the child returned, her light brown hair hanging loose about her neck, and her face flushed with the haste she had made to rejoin us.
-- The little girl hastened from her seat, and put her arm about his neck.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warden was about to shut the door, when a pale, severe, wrinkled face of an old woman with disheveled hair was thrust out.
-- Nekhludoff was about to open the letters, when a middle-aged woman, with a lace head-gear over her unevenly parted hair, glided into the room.
-- The commander was a liberal-minded man, entirely absorbed with the struggles, and knew nothing about his wretched family life.
-- They were talking about the price of wool when Nekhludoff approached them and asked if that was the jury's room.
-- In the small jury-room there were about ten men of every description.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it.
-- You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?"
-- And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?"
-- But how about up and down?
-- 'You can move about in all directions of Space, but you cannot move about in Time."
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, if you'll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I'll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House.
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