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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That seems to me to be clearly indicated," said I, reading the letter once more.
-- During the daytime of the 11th of December I was busy reading in the large drawing-room.
-- I was then reading a charming book by Jean Mace, The Slaves of the Stomach, and I was learning some valuable lessons from it, when Conseil interrupted me.
-- A quarter of an hour after, Conseil, approaching me, said, "Is what you are reading very interesting, sir?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the platform of the railway station he saw Gerald Crich, reading a newspaper, and evidently waiting for the train.
-- Even though he was reading the newspaper closely, he must keep a watchful eye on his external surroundings.
-- "What were you reading in the paper?"
-- "One gets more of China, copying this picture, than reading all the books."
-- He took up a large volume which he had been reading before, and became minutely attentive to his author.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.
-- I did not know whether to resent this language or pursue my explanation; but he seemed so powerfully affected that I took pity and proceeded with my dreams; affirming I had never heard the appellation of 'Catherine Linton' before, but reading it often over produced an impression which personified itself when I had no longer my imagination under control.
-- It opened into the house, where the females were already astir; Zillah urging flakes of flame up the chimney with a colossal bellows; and Mrs. Heathcliff, kneeling on the hearth, reading a book by the aid of the blaze.
-- A high wind blustered round the house, and roared in the chimney: it sounded wild and stormy, yet it was not cold, and we were all together I, a little removed from the hearth, busy at my knitting, and Joseph reading his Bible near the table (for the servants generally sat in the house then, after their work was done).
-- Or reading sermons, and being catechised by their manservant, and set to learn a column of Scripture names, if they don't answer properly?'
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