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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he sat on mysofa, with his long knees drawn up under his coffee-cup, his hatand gloves upon the ground close to him, his spoon going softlyround and round, his shadowless red eyes, which looked as if theyhad scorched their lashes off, turned towards me without lookingat me, the disagreeable dints I have formerly described in hisnostrils coming and going with his breath, and a snaky undulationpervading his frame from his chin to his boots, I decided in myown mind that I disliked him intensely.
-- Therefore she begged to be excused from any further attendance onthe top set, until things were as they formerly was, and as theycould be wished to be; and further mentioned that her little bookwould be found upon the breakfast-table every Saturday morning,when she requested an immediate settlement of the same, with thebenevolent view of saving trouble, 'and an illconwenience' to allparties.
-- Theconflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature toirritate their feelings, personal collisions took place and theCommons was even scandalised by our principal inveigler (whohad formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the swornbrokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.
-- I was not long in recollecting Mrs.Steerforth's little parlour-maid, who had formerly worn blueribbons in her cap.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
-- She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable main-tenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment. Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! It was likely to be as untainted, perhaps, as the blood of many a gentleman: but what a connexion had she been preparing for Mr. Knightley or for the Churchills or even for Mr. Elton! The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- This man was her husband, formerly Sergeant Troy, who, having bought his discharge with Bathsheba's money, was gradually transforming himself into a farmer of a spirited and very modern school.
-- Why, Bathsheba, you have lost all the pluck and sauciness you formerly had, and upon my life if I had known what a chicken-hearted creature you were under all your boldness, I'd never have I know what."
-- What he would try to recognize was that the severe schooling she had been subjected to had made Bathsheba much more considerate than she had formerly been of the feelings of others, and he trusted that, should she be willing at any time in the future to marry any man at all, that man would be himself.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
-- 'On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the win-dows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.
-- 'In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and the green banks interspersed with in-numerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal ram-bles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably shortened by the late setting and early ris-ing of the sun, for I never ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.
-- I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatu-ral hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me.
-- After passing some months in London, we received a let-ter from a person in Scotland who had formerly been our visitor at Geneva.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the mealson time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to haveclean linen on hand, so that the arrival of guests was always the occasion of much stirring and to-do.
-- When she rose from herknees she did not feel as comforted as she had formerly felt after prayer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as I says to Biddy when the news of your being ill were brought by letter, which it were brought by the post, and being formerly single he is now married though underpaid for a deal of walking and shoe-leather, but wealth were not a object on his part, and marriage were the great wish of his hart--""It is so delightful to hear you, Joe!But I interrupt you in what you said to Biddy."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
-- When I had got out of danger, I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows that stuck in my hands and face; and rubbed on some of the same ointment that was given me at my first arrival, as I have formerly mentioned.
-- Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.
-- I had formerly been surgeon of another ship where he was master, and a fourth part owner, in a voyage to the Levant.
-- 'It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the "back distance" we could see a number of flattened cones, which formerly were so many fire-vomiting mouths.
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