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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIIAt the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out.
-- She rented a small cottage, and Mr. Wopsle had the room upstairs, where we students used to overhear him reading aloud in a most dignified and terrific manner, and occasionally bumping on the ceiling.
-- he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
-- When the fights were over, Biddy gave out the number of a page, and then we all read aloud what we could,--or what we couldn't--in a frightful chorus; Biddy leading with a high, shrill, monotonous voice, and none of us having the least notion of, or reverence for, what we were reading about.
-- The Hall was a queer place, I thought, with higher pews in it than a church,--and with people hanging over the pews looking on,--and with mighty Justices (one with a powdered head) leaning back in chairs, with folded arms, or taking snuff, or going to sleep, or writing, or reading the newspapers,--and with some shining black portraits on the walls, which my unartistic eye regarded as a composition of hardbake and sticking-plaster.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They have been an essen-tial ingredient of children's reading ever since.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their lan-guage; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory.
-- I heard the word Burglum repeated incessantly: sev-eral of the emperor's court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial majesty's apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance.
-- But I was soon informed, both by con-versation and reading their histories; for, in the course of many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobil-ity often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And, Mrs. Gradgrind,' said her husband in a lofty manner, 'I should as soon have expected to find my children reading poetry.'
-- Whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything?
-- He has been picking up a bit of reading for her, here and a bit of writing for her, there and a bit of ciphering for her, somewhere else these seven years.'
-- You have been in the habit now of reading to your father, and those people I found you among, I dare say?'
-- I understand you to have been in the habit of reading to your father?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without noticing my abstraction, the Professor began reading the puzzling cryptograph all sorts of ways, according to some theory of his own.
-- These memories of the past, of my early reading and studies, came fresh to my thoughts.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Olive was reading a book about the future, when babies would be bred in bottles, and women would be 'immu-nized'.
-- But he still wanted the old intimate evenings of talk with Connie: talk or reading aloud.
-- Between coming home and dinner she had cut it out, and she sat in the soft quiescent rapture of herself sewing, while the noise of the reading went on.
-- The reading finished.
-- So!She did not even kiss him goodnight, after he had spent an evening reading to her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She'll sit with him for another hour reading yesterday's paper to him, or something of that sort; and then she'll come out like a little ghost, and vanish away without a sound.'
-- 'Wherever she lives,' said Mrs Clennam, speaking in one unmodulated hard voice, and separating her words as distinctly as if she were reading them off from separate bits of metal that she took up one by one, 'she has made a secret of it, and she shall always keep her secret from me.'
-- Otherwise, Affery never said or did anything to attract the attention of the two clever ones towards her in any marked degree, except on certain occasions, generally at about the quiet hour towards bed-time, when she would suddenly dart out of her dim corner, and whisper with a face of terror to Mr Flintwinch, reading the paper near Mrs Clennam's little table:'There, Jeremiah!Now!What's that noise?'
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