hitherto是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 到目前为止， 迄今，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose, the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was pos-sible to be, the expression deepened itself as she took her seat thoughtfully in the chair by which she had hitherto re-mained standing.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn; so large were they; and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street, because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his love affairs had always hitherto been outside it.
-- But hitherto she had not taken note of the feeling, now she was clearly and painfully aware of it.
-- He felt that all his forces, hitherto dissipated, wasted, were centered on one thing, and bent with fearful energy on one blissful goal.
-- He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him, were closed against him.
-- It was revealed to her that besides the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto there was a spiritual life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The weather, which had hitherto been fine, changed with the last quarter of the moon.
-- Chance, however, appeared really to have abandoned the man it had hitherto served so well.
-- It happened that the performer who had hitherto formed the base of the Car had quitted the troupe, and as, to fill this part, only strength and adroitness were necessary, Passepartout had been chosen to take his place.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have heard your papers at the Academy of Sciences but, to my own loss, I have hitherto failed to have an introduction to you."
-- The dinner began with one misfortune in that Terry Wickett, who hitherto could be depended upon to stay decently away, now appeared, volunteering to the wife of an ex-ambassador, "I simply couldn't duck this spread, with dear Sir Isaac coming.
-- Capitola McGurk, who hitherto had not perceived him except as an object less interesting than Gladys the Centrifuge, telephoned: ".
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thank God, her sufferings are over, but I will tell you everything in order, so that you may know just how ev-erything has happened and all that we have hitherto concealed from you.
-- 'I set your interest beside all that has hitherto been most precious in my life, what has made up the whole of my life, and here you are offended at my making too little account of you.'
-- 'What, what,' he thought, 'could hitherto have hindered her from putting an end to it?'
-- They are the sort of people that would feel bound to return money and presents if they broke it off; and they would find it hard to do it!And their conscience would prick them: how can we dismiss a man who has hitherto been so gener-ous and delicate?芒聙娄.
-- I should say to my wife: 'My dear, hitherto I have loved you, now I respect you, for you've shown you can protest!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appearsto me, that what Mr. Micawber has to do, in justice to himself, injustice to his family, and I will even go so far as to say in justice tosociety, by which he has been hitherto overlooked, is to advertisein all the papers; to describe himself plainly as so-andso, with suchand such qualifications, and to put it thus: "Now employ me, onremunerative terms, and address, post-paid to W. M. Post Office,Camden Town."'
-- I gave Miss Mowcher my hand, with a verydifferent opinion of her from that which I had hitherto entertained,and opened the door to let her out.
-- He perfectly understood this allusion to theconsiderations that had hitherto restrained me in mycommunications with him.
-- Icould not have borne to lose the smallest portion of her sisterlyaffection; yet, in that betrayal, I should have set a constraintbetween us hitherto unknown.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hitherto I fancy you and I are the only people to whom his looks and manners have ex-plained themselves.'
-- As Harriet now lived, the Martins could not get at her, without seek-ing her, where hitherto they had wanted either the courage or the condescension to seek her; for since her refusal of the brother, the sisters never had been at Mrs. Goddard's; and a twelvemonth might pass without their being thrown together again, with any necessity, or even any power of speech.
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