reading是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 读书， 读物， (仪表等的) 读数， 阅读，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.
-- He was not reading now, but walking up and down de-spairingly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found the Doctor reading in his arm-chair at a win-dow.
-- The House itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the 202 A tale of two citiesStryver head had been butted into its responsible waist-coat.
-- He remained, therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and expressing in as many pleasant and natural ways as he could think of, that it was a free place.
-- For, going to the door of the Doctor's room and looking in, he perceived that the shoemaker's bench and tools were put aside again, and that the Doctor himself sat reading at the window.
-- Like 332 A tale of two citiesthe fabled rustic who raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so terrified at the sight of him that he could ask the Enemy no question, but immediately fled; so, Monseigneur, after boldly reading the Lord's Prayer backwards for a great number of years, and performing many other potent spells for compelling the Evil One, no sooner beheld him in his terrors than he took to his noble heels.
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：
-- Your reading in the ancients is, sine dubio, of vast extent?'
-- 'I like reading all useful works; but I do not on that account despise the modern ones; 'tis only the unfor-tunate 'Tales of Every-day Life' that I cannot bear we have enough and more than enough such in reality.'
-- 'I mean those new fangled novels, twisting and writhing themselves in the dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public.'
-- THE OLD HOUSE In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house-it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole verses spelled as in former times, and over every win-dow was a distorted face cut out in the beam.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he sipped his coffee, he opened a still damp morning paper, and began reading it.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch could be calm when he thought of his wife, he could hope that she would come round, as Matvey expressed it, and could quietly go on reading his paper and drinking his coffee; but when he saw her tortured, suffering face, heard the tone of her voice, submissive to fate and full of despair, there was a catch in his breath and a lump in his throat, and his eyes began to shine with tears.
-- And his eyes were laughing during the reading of the report.
-- Sergey Koznishev had been following this crusade with interest, and after reading the professor's last article, he had written him a letter stating his objections.
-- He was reading a book, and thinking of what he was reading, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and work in the future rose disconnectedly before his imagination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist.
-- His breakfast consisted of a side-dish, a broiled fish with Reading sauce, a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, and a morsel of Cheshire cheese, the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous.
-- said the consul, after reading the passport.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II Cross-legged in the examining-chair in Doc Vickerson's office, a boy was reading "Gray's Anatomy."
-- Martin had been reading Max Gottlieb's scientific papers--as much of them as he could read, with their morass of mathematical symbols--and from them he had a conviction that experiments should be something dealing with the foundations of life and death, with the nature of bacterial infection, with the chemistry of bodily reactions.
-- No discussion at the Digamma Pi supper table was more violent than the incessant debate over the value to a doctor, a decent normal doctor who made a good living and did not worry about reading papers at medical associations, of remembering anatomical terms.
-- Clif was sitting on the small of his back, shoeless feet upon the study table, reading a Sherlock Holmes story which rested on the powerful volume of Osler's Medicine which he considered himself to be reading.
-- Bert had been reading fiction.
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