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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He left the room immediately to fetch his official document, and, though hardly absent a minute, Paddy O'Moore managed to say, "My Lord, you may trust Ayrton; I vouch for his being an honest man.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have wired to get his name and address from the Official Registry.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is how official documents addressed to important -personages should be written.
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：
-- and his wife, a Government official and his wife, Mrs. Strickland's sister and her husband, Colonel MacAndrew, and the wife of a Member of Parliament.
-- But when we arrived at the hospital, a gaunt, cheerless building, the mere sight of which was enough to make one's heart sick, and after being directed from this official to that, up endless stairs and through long, bare corridors, found the doctor in charge of the case, we were told that the patient was too ill to see anyone that day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding that the fact had been notorious beforehand to all the tea-drinkers, and had been discussed and expatiated on at every tea-drinking in the neighbourhood for the last twelve months, this official communication was no sooner made than they all began to talk at once and to vie with each other in vehemence and volubility.
-- The faces had not disappeared from the window many moments, when Mr Chuckster in his official coat, and with his hat hanging on his head just as it happened to fall from its peg, appeared upon the pavement, and telling him he was wanted inside, bade him go in and he would mind the chaise the while.
-- The excessive audacity of this retort so overpowered Mr Chuckster, and so moved his tender regard for his friend's honour, that he declared, if he were not restrained by official considerations, he must certainly have annihilated Kit upon the spot; a resentment of the affront which he did consider, under the extraordinary circumstances of aggravation attending it, could but have met with the proper sanction and approval of a jury of Englishmen, who, he had no doubt, would have returned a verdict of justifiable Homicide, coupled with a high testimony to the morals and character of the Avenger.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You certainly cannot stick to two things," said the chief warden, with official assurance of his own wit.
-- The reading of this official report, which lasted about two hours, did not satisfy, however, the prosecutor.
-- The clerk, Vasilieff, took the chamberman's part, saying that there was no law permitting an official to beat prisoners.
-- He tore open the envelope, and, seeing a letter from Selenin with some official document, he felt the blood mounting to his cheeks, and his heart grow weak.
-- He tore open the envelope, and, seeing a letter from Silenin with some official document, he felt the blood mounting to his cheeks, and his heart grow weak.
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：
-- She had spoken with him once or twice, but only in his official capacity as inspector.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochail workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court-of-law beadles, or even chapel-of-ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then returned, and Carrie followed her new superior to a little desk in a corner, which he used as a kind of official centre.
-- In the same house with her lived an official of one of the theatres, Mr. Frank A. Hale, manager of the Standard, and his wife, a pleasing-looking brunette of thirty-five.
-- All this Hurstwood could see, and it left a trace of feeling, for he was used to being considered--in his official position, at least--and felt that his importance should not begin to wane here.
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