second是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 第二； 次等的， 二等的n. 秒v. 赞成， 附和v. (临时) 调任， 调派，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：
-- 'Expect the second on the next night at the same hour.
-- 50 Sons and LoversStave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and Asitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.
-- He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of hold-ing a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is not often,' said the second of the three, addressing 46 A tale of two citiesMonsieur Defarge, 'that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death.
-- At this second interchange of the Christian name, Ma-dame Defarge, still using her toothpick with profound composure, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
-- (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.)
-- After hailing the mom with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third.
-- The jackal then invigorated himself with a bum for his throttle, and a fresh application to his head, and applied himself to the collec-tion of a second meal; this was administered to the lion in the same manner, and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning.
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：
-- asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same ges-tures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there.
-- Second Story.
-- The robe of the one was red, that of the second blue, and that of the third white.
-- People came in crowds; there was a crush and a hurry, but no one was successful either on the first or second day.
-- * It is the custom in Denmark for intimate acquaintances to use the second person singular, 'Du,' (thou) when speak-ing to each other.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs of the roll off his waistcoat; and, squaring his broad chest, he smiled joyously: not because there was anything particularly agreeable in his mind--the joyous smile was evoked by a good digestion.
-- After obtaining his brother's address from Sergey Ivanovitch's footman, Levin was on the point of setting off at once to see him, but on second thought he decided to put off his visit till the evening.
-- "I haven't got my skates," Levin answered, marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her.
-- Levin belonged to the second class.
-- But the same second he looked round at the young man, and gave the nervous jerk of his head and neck that Konstantin knew so well, as if his neckband hurt him; and a quite different expression, wild, suffering, and cruel, rested on his emaciated fact.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions.
-- When Passepartout reached the second story he recognised at once the room which he was to inhabit, and he was well satisfied with it.
-- Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant.
-- The next day a passenger with a half-stupefied eye, staggering gait, and disordered hair, was seen to emerge from the second cabin, and to totter to a seat on deck.
-- Several sailors, who were evidently accustomed to this sort of scene, carried the poor Frenchman down into the second cabin, and Passepartout did not wake until they were one hundred and fifty miles away from China.
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