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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The father and mother spent their evenings in reading aloud to their children, generally from books of a serious charac-ter.
-- He was ac-cused of 'taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press.'
-- And therefore they had to take turns, so that in every house she was expected before she ar-rived, and everyone knew that on such and such a day Marfa Petrovna would be reading the letter in such and such a place and people assembled for every reading of it, even many who had heard it several times already both in their own houses and in other people's.
-- 62 Crime and PunishmentChapter IV is mother's letter had been a torture to him, but as re-Hgards the chief fact in it, he had felt not one moment's hesitation, even whilst he was reading the letter.
-- What are you doing, reading the papers?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ihad been reading to Peggotty about crocodiles.
-- My mother is ready for me at herwriting-desk, but not half so ready as Mr. Murdstone in his easy-chair by the window (though he pretends to be reading a book), oras Miss Murdstone, sitting near my mother stringing steel beads.
-- When I think of it, thepicture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys atplay in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if forlife.
-- Whether itwas possible for people to see me or not, I always fancied thatsomebody was reading it.
-- The best times were whenshe sat quietly at work in the doorway, and I sat on the woodensteps at her feet, reading to her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma.
-- Harriet was to sit again the next day; and Mr. Elton, just 56 Emmaas he ought, entreated for the permission of attending and reading to them again.
-- Her views of improving her little friend's mind, by a great deal of useful reading and conversation, had never yet led to more than a few first chapters, and the intention of go-ing on to-morrow.
-- But here is my father coming: you will not object to my reading the charade to him.
-- I was reading it to Mrs. Cole, and since she went away, I was reading it again to my moth-er, for it is such a pleasure to her a letter from Jane that she can never hear it often enough; so I knew it could not be far off, and here it is, only just under my huswife and since you are so kind as to wish to hear what she says; but, first of all, I really must, in justice to Jane, apologise for her writing so short a letter only two pages you see hardly two and in general she fills the whole paper and crosses half.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I met the mail-cart ten minutes ago, and a letter was put into my hand, which I opened without reading the address.
-- Gabriel at this time of his life had out-grown the instinctive dislike which every Christian boy has for reading the Bible, perusing it now quite frequently, and he inwardly said, "'I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets!'"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by de-grees I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.
-- I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And ordering French and German books by the crate fromthe Yankees!And there they sit reading and dreaming the dear God knows what, when they'd be better spending theirtime hunting and playing poker as proper men should."
-- "I was greatly disturbed to hear of your recent conduct," ran Ellen's letter and Scarlett, who was reading it at thetable, scowled.
-- When Scarlett first began secretly reading these letters, she had been so stricken of conscience and so fearful ofdiscovery she could hardly open the envelopes for trembling.
-- Melanie was always generous with the letters, reading parts of them aloud to Aunt Pitty and Scarlett.
-- But it wasthe part she did not read that tormented Scarlett, that drove her to surreptitious reading of her sister-in-law's mail.
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