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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This magnificent bird is the king of the Southern Andes, and was formerly worshiped by the Incas.
-- Numerous expeditions were formerly made there from Buenos Ayres, to collect the salt deposited on its banks, as the waters contain great quantities of chloride of sodium.
-- Instead of the close intercourse which had formerly existed among the passengers, and the lively conversations which had cheered the voyage, each one kept apart from the others in the solitude of his own cabin, and it was seldom that anyone appeared on the deck of the DUNCAN.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He left a fortune of several millions in good current coin, and every-thing came to our noble scion, our gaitered baron, formerly treated for idiocy in a Swiss lunatic asylum.
-- He was not astonished, for instance, to see her now so impa-tient to marry him she who formerly had wept with rage and hurled curses and reproaches at him if he mentioned marriage!
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now com-poses the United States.
-- * In the state of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narra-gansett, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks.
-- 'Even your traditions make the case in my favor, Ch-ingachgook,' he said, speaking in the tongue which was known to all the natives who formerly inhabited the coun-try between the Hudson and the Potomac, and of which we shall give a free translation for the benefit of the reader; endeavoring, at the same time, to preserve some of the pe-culiarities, both of the individual and of the language.
-- He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western con-tinent of a much later day, certainly, than those gifted bards, who formerly sang the profane renown of baron and prince, but after the spirit of his own age and country; and he was now prepared to exercise the cunning of his craft, in celebration of, or rather in thanksgiving for, the recent vic-tory.
-- Without waiting for an assent, or, indeed, for any re-ply, the sturdy hunter moved boldly into a dense thicket of young chestnuts, shoving aside the branches of the ex-uberant shoots which nearly covered the ground, like a man who expected, at each step, to discover some object he had formerly known.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church, was formerly thrown a wooden bridge; the road that led to it, and the bridge it-self, were thickly shaded by overhanging trees, which cast a gloom about it, even in the daytime; but occasioned a fear-ful darkness at night.
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：
-- "芒聭赂芒聭赂 This picture, formerly in the possession of a wealthy manufacturer at Lille, who fled from that city on the approach of the Germans, is now in the National Gallery at Stockholm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The torches were lighted with flint and steel, and Cyrus Harding leading, the settlers ventured into the dark passage, which the overplus of the lake had formerly filled.
-- There is a reason for that, and to me it is that Lincoln Island may have formerly been a part of some vast continent which had gradually sunk below the Pacific."
-- This cellular substance was regular flour of a superior quality, extremely nourishing; its exportation was formerly forbidden by the Japanese laws.
-- Pencroft had formerly served on board a whaling-ship, and he could methodically direct the operation of cutting up, a sufficiently disagreeable operation lasting three days, but from which the settlers did not flinch, not even Gideon Spilett, who, as the sailor said, would end by making a "real good castaway."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Formerly he used to earn a competence, but had lost his customers, and was now given to drink, spending everything that came into his hands.
-- During this period of his life Nekhludoff felt the ecstasy of freedom from all those moral impediments which he had formerly placed before himself, and continued in a chronic condition of insane egotism.
-- But, seeing Katiousha, and being again imbued with the feelings he formerly experienced toward her, the spiritual man raised his head and began to assert his rights.
-- Formerly Nekhludoff had paid no attention to them.
-- Besides, formerly the occupation with the affairs of Dmitri Ivanovich always caused vexation and irritation; while these affairs of others for the most part put him in a happy mood.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is only in chance cases, where a fortune or a state of success is wrested from them, that the lack of ability to do as they did formerly becomes apparent.
-- Mrs. Bermudez's offices consisted of what formerly had been a back chamber and a hall bedroom, marked "Private."
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