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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poiret would join the talk, argue, answer when he was spoken to; as a matter of fact, his talk, arguments, and responses contributed nothing to the conversation, for Poiret had a habit of repeating what the others said in different words; still, he did join in the talk; he was alive, and seemed capable of feeling; while Father Goriot (to quote the Museum official again) was invariably at zero degrees--Reaumur.
-- "No, it shouldn't," said the official from the Museum; "_frozerama_ is right by the same rule that you say 'My feet are _froze_.'"
-- Everything will be announced to-morrow, you know, and your kind informal communication can be accompanied by official confirmation."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had an official look, however, and there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen.
-- On the day before it, I received an official note from Wemmick, informing me that Mr. Jaggers would be glad if I would call upon him at five in the afternoon of the auspicious day.
-- My Walworth sentiments must be taken at Walworth; none but my official sentiments can be taken in this office."
-- Official sentiments are one thing.
-- "I wouldn't go into that," said Wemmick, evasively, "it might clash with official responsibilities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lastly, she was guardian over a little armoury of cutlasses and carbines, arrayed in vengeful order above one of the official chimney-pieces; and over that respectable tradition never to be separated from a place of business claiming to be wealthy a row of fire-buckets vessels calculated to be of no physical utility on any occasion, but observed to exercise a fine moral influence, almost equal to bullion, on most beholders.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so much official uniform as the clergyman wore was enough to obscure entirely the fact that he was a man like any other man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This invested the turnkey with a new proprietary share in the child, over and above his former official one.
-- If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
-- It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of the official proceedings.
-- It was a comfortable room, handsomely furnished in the higher official manner; an presenting stately suggestions of the absent Barnacle, in the thick carpet, the leather-covered desk to sit at, the leather-covered desk to stand at, the formidable easy-chair and hearth-rug, the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervading smell of leather and mahogany, and a general bamboozling air of How not to do it.
-- The question may have been, in the course of official business, referred to the Circumlocution Department for its consideration.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his former dignity is sadly abridged.
-- Now, if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
-- There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory: there's the insanity of life!Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
-- **Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851.
-- Such an unwonted bustle was he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned to him for the time the sole management of affairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So are the coffins,' replied the beadle: with precisely as near an approach to a laugh as a great official ought to indulge in.
-- said the undertaker: taking Mr. Bumble by the gilt-edged lappel of his official coat; 'that's just the very thing I wanted to speak to you about.
-- But, however,' said the beadle, stopping to unpack his bundle, 'these are official secrets, ma'am; not to be spoken of; except, as I may say, among the porochial officers, such as ourselves.
-- It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.
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