formerly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 以前， 从前，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：
-- The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apoc-270 A tale of two citiesryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.
-- 'Doctor Manette, formerly of Beauvais,' said the other; 'the young physician, originally an expert surgeon, who within the last year or two has made a rising reputation in Paris?'
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：
-- He gazed at the street formerly so well known to him, and now so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively: most of them were of wood, slight-ly put together; and many had a thatched roof.
-- And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was bright-er than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall.
-- * That is a town that is just rising into importance; a lively town that has steam-boats and stagecoaches: formerly people called it ugly, but that is no longer true.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the district council-- not in the form of bribes, but in the form of unearned salary," he said, as hotly as though someone of those present had opposed his opinion.
-- His work, both on the land and on the book, in which the principles of the new land system were to be laid down, had not been abandoned; but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed to him petty and trivial in comparison with the darkness that overspread all life, now they seemed as unimportant and petty in comparison with the life that lay before him suffused with the brilliant light of happiness.
-- Formerly this work had been for him an escape from life.
-- Formerly he had felt that without this work his life would be too gloomy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
-- "Mew, my lord!What, a rabbit mew!I swear to you ""Be so good, landlord, as not to swear, but remember this: cats were formerly considered, in India, as sacred animals.
-- It was formerly defended by a noble fort, which has since become a state prison; its commerce has dwindled away, and Passepartout in vain looked about him for such a bazaar as he used to frequent in Regent Street.
-- "Yes," returned Passepartout, who had formerly been wont to sing in the streets.
-- It is a picturesque expanse, framed in lofty crags in large strata, encrusted with white salt a superb sheet of water, which was formerly of larger extent than now, its shores having encroached with the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increased its depth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her parents, formerly amusing figures in a story, became oppressively real in sight of the wide, brown, porchy house.
-- Behind the front room of the tiny office-building were two cubicles, formerly bedroom and kitchen.
-- The citizens had formerly been agitated by his irreligion, his moral looseness, and his lack of local patriotism, but when they were prodded out of their comfortable and probably beneficial dirt, they exploded.
-- Nautilus had held a Pep Week, during which a race of rapidly talking men, formerly book-agents but now called Efficiency Engineers, went about giving advice to shopkeepers on how to get money away from one another more rapidly, and Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh addressed a prayer- meeting on "The Pep of St. Paul, the First Booster."
-- I really must tell you that I was formerly a researcher in an Institute called McGurk, and learned several of these things all by myself!Hell, Terry, and you, Mart, don't be so egotistic!You're not the only scientists who like to work undisturbed!If you poor fish only knew how I long to get away from signing letters and get my fingers on a kymograph drum again!Those beautiful long hours of search for truth!And if you knew how I've fought the Trustees for the chance to keep you fellows free!All right.
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：
-- 'A student then, or formerly a student,' cried the clerk.
-- 'Yes, formerly a student.'
-- I am a comrade of Rodya's, like him, formerly a student, and now I am nurs-ing him; so don't you take any notice of us, but go on with 210 Crime and Punishmentyour business.'
-- 'I am Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, formerly a stu-dent, I live in Shil's house, not far from here, flat Number 14, ask the porter, he knows me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 87I heard that the man with the wooden leg, whose name wasTungay, was an obstinate barbarian- who had formerly assisted inthe hop business, but had come into the scholastic line with Mr.Creakle, in consequence, as was supposed among the boys, of hishaving broken his leg in Mr. Creakle's service, and having done adeal of dishonest work for him, and knowing his secrets.
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