official是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 官员， 行政官员a. 官方的， 官方的， 正式的，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：
-- Monsieur Gabelle was the Postmaster, and some other taxing functionary united; he had come out with great ob-sequiousness to assist at this examination, and had held the examined by the drapery of his arm in an official manner.
-- 'My English brother Solomon,' mourned Miss Pross, casting up her tear-fraught eyes, 'that had the makings in him of one of the best and greatest of men in his native country, an official among foreigners, and such foreigners!I would almost sooner have seen the dear boy lying in his ' 'I said so!'
-- The official turned towards him with sudden distrust.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.
-- That is he," said the doorkeeper, pointing to a strongly built, broadshouldered man with a curly beard, who, without taking off his sheepskin cap, was running lightly and rapidly up the worn steps of the stone staircase.b One of the members going down--a lean official with a portfolio--stood out of his way and looked disapprovingly at the legs of the stranger, then glanced inquiringly at Oblonsky.
-- In the same way Levin in his heart despised the town mode of life of his friend, and his official duties, which he laughed at, and regarded as trifling.
-- I made his acquaintance in Tver when I was there on official business, and he came there for the levy of recruits.
-- You despise public official work because you want the reality to be invariably corresponding all the while with the aim--and that's not how it is.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The consul proceeded to sign and date the passport, after which he added his official seal.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It furnished excellent antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus, as well as the purest of official preparations, with the plainest and most official-looking labels on the swaggeringly modest brown bottles.
-- There was never an official appointment.
-- Apparently an official in a democratic state has to do those things.
-- One of the papers had an innocent squib: Probably a certain amount of hypocrisy is inevitable in us sinful human critters, but when a public official tries to pose as a saint while indulging in every vice, and tries to cover up his gross ignorance and incompetence by pulling political wires, and makes a holy show of himself by not even doing a first-class job of wire- pulling, then even the cussedest of us old scoundrels begins to holler for the meat-ax.
-- He could not confine his official work to an hour a day.
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：
-- I simply hinted that an 'extraordinary' man has the right 芒聙娄 that is not an official right, but an inner right to decide in his own conscience to overstep 芒聙娄 certain obstacles, and only in case it is essential for the practical fulfilment of his idea (sometimes, perhaps, of benefit to the whole of humanity).
-- Porfiry pattered on, 'and you know all these official duties 芒聙娄 please don't mind my running up and down, excuse it, my dear fellow, I am very much afraid of offending you, but exercise is absolutely indispensable for me.
-- 'Not in the slightest, and indeed it's an absurdity!I merely hinted at her obtaining temporary assistance as the widow of an official who had died in the service if only she has patronage 芒聙娄 but apparently your late parent had not served his full term and had not indeed been in the service at all of late.
-- But at that moment a gentleman in civilian uniform and an overcoat a solid- looking official of about fifty with a decoration on his neck (which delighted Katerina Ivanov-na and had its effect on the policeman) approached and without a word handed her a green three-rouble note.
-- Raskolnikov and Leb-eziatnikov were the first at her side, the official too hastened up, and behind him the policeman who muttered, 'Bother!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed ofgrave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' namesupon the doors, to be the official abiding places of the learnedadvocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dullroom, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.
-- 'I am bound to state to you,' he said, with an official air, 'that thebusiness habits, and the prudent suggestions, of Mrs. Micawber,have in a great measure conduced to this result.
-- 'No, Mr. Traddles,' replied Uriah, resuming his official seat, andsqueezing his bony hands, laid palm to palm, between his bonyknees.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The new shepherd will want a man under him," suggested Henery Fray, trying to make himself official again by a sideway approach towards her chair.
-- Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
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