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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The accident happened about five o'clock in the morning, as the day was breaking.
-- They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
-- Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and taciturn, occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted.
-- It follows, then, that at 320 feet this pressure equals that of 10 atmospheres, of 100 atmospheres at 3,200 feet, and of 1,000 atmospheres at 32,000 feet, that is, about 6 miles; which is equivalent to saying that if you could attain this depth in the ocean, each square three-eighths of an inch of the surface of your body would bear a pressure of 5,600 lb.
-- "About 6,500; and as in reality the atmospheric pressure is about 15 lb.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve.
-- "I haven't thought about him: I've refrained," she said coldly.
-- As she went upstairs, Ursula was aware of the house, of her home round about her.
-- But about him also was the strange, guarded look, the unconscious glisten, as if he did not belong to the same creation as the people about him.
-- There was something northern about him that magnetised her.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.'
-- It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls.
-- he said, shaking the white flakes from his clothes; 'I wonder you should select the thick of a snow storm to ramble about in.
-- One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
-- At first the young man appeared about to befriend me.
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：
-- There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, ' for it's all in some language I don't know,' she said to herself.
-- 'It's no use talking about it,' Alice said, looking up at the house and pretending it was arguing with her.
-- 'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!'
-- 'I don't care about the colour,' the Tiger-lily remarked.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
-- Mostly he would not speak when spoken to, only look up sudden and fierce and blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about our house soon learned to let him be.
-- For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter, for I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms.
-- He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
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