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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last I took to reading up interesting things on purpose to pass them on to the little ones, and this went on for all the rest of my time there, three years.
-- 'This man assures me,' said Aglaya, scornfully, when the prince had finished reading the letter, 'that the words 'break off everything' do not commit me to anything whatever; and himself gives me a written guarantee to that effect, in this letter.
-- 'As soon as I had finished reading it, she told me that you were fishing for her; that you wished to compromise her so far as to receive some hopes from her, trusting to which hopes you might break with the prospect of receiving a hundred thousand roubles.
-- All present concentrated their attention upon Ptitsin, reading the prince's letter.
-- The girls could see that their mother concealed a great deal from them, and left out large pieces of the letter in reading it to them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Kemp, reading eagerly an incredulous account of the events in Iping, of the previous afternoon, that have already been described.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My days I devote to reading and to experi-ments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These magic books and the poetic scrawl were forthwith consigned to the flames by Hans Van Ripper; who, from that time forward, determined to send his children no more to school; observing that he never knew any good come of this same reading and writing.
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：
-- She had a real passion for reading (rare in her kind, who for the most part are more interested in the author than in his book, in the painter than in his pictures), and she invented a world of the imagination in which she lived with a freedom she never acquired in the world of every day.
-- Chapter VIIIOn reading over what I have written of the Stricklands, I am conscious that they must seem shadowy.
-- I did not see him for several days after that, but one evening, when I was sitting in the cafe, reading a paper, he came up and sat beside me.
-- It was about ten o' clock at night; I had been dining by myself at a restaurant, and having returned to my small apartment, was sitting in my parlour, reading I heard the cracked tinkling of the bell, and, going into the corridor, opened the door.
-- Strickland, according to Captain Nichols, did not use exactly the words I have given, but since this book is meant for family reading I have thought it better, at the expense of truth, to put into his mouth expressions familiar to the domestic circle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the old gentleman after reading it, 'ask the messenger to walk this way.'
-- It happened, that, as she was reading in the old spot by herself one day, this child came running in with his eyes full of tears, and after holding her from him, and looking at her eagerly for a moment, clasped his little arms passionately about her neck.
-- Kit was thankful for this indulgence, and sat reading the church catechism very attentively (though he had known it by heart from a little child), until he heard the key in the lock, and the man entered again.
-- In the space between, sat a turnkey reading a newspaper, and outside the further railing, Kit saw, with a palpitating heart, his mother with the baby in her arms; Barbara's mother with her never-failing umbrella; and poor little Jacob, staring in with all his might, as though he were looking for the bird, or the wild beast, and thought the men were mere accidents with whom the bars could have no possible concern.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An old little priest with a swollen, pale yellow face, in a brown cassock and gold cross on his breast and some small badges pinned to the cassock, slowly moving his swollen feet under the cassock, approached the reading desk under the image.
-- Then the secretary arose and began to read the indictment, loud and with distinctness, but so rapidly that his incorrect sounding of the letters l and r turned his reading into one continuous, weary drone.
-- The clerk having finished the reading of the long indictment, folded the papers, seated himself at his desk and began to arrange his long hair.
-- When the reading of the indictment was finished, the justiciary, having consulted with his associates, turned to Kartinkin with an expression on his face which plainly betokened confidence in his ability to bring forth all the truth.
-- When, however, he was reading novels, relating indecent anecdotes or seeing droll vaudevilles in the French theatre, and afterward merrily repeated them, everybody praised and encouraged him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print the following important news:Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March 1, 17 Dear Livesey As I do not know whether you are at the hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
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