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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second kind are more prosperous."
-- I shall now inoculate the second guinea pig, and the class will be dismissed.
-- But he did not for a second believe it.
-- "Martin Arrowsmith, if you think for one moment that I'm ever going to marry a vulgar, crude, selfish, microbe-grubbing smart aleck--" "And if you think I'm going to marry a dame that keeps nag-nag- naggin' and jab-jab-jabbin' at me all day long--" They hurt each other; they had pleasure in it; and they parted forever, twice they parted forever, the second time very rudely, near a fraternity-house where students were singing heart-breaking summer songs to a banjo.
-- It was Madeline's second plagiarism of her cousin.
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 later years of his life were much softened by the tenderness and devo-tion of his second wife.
-- For instance, at his second visit, after he had received Dounia's consent, in the course of conversation, he declared that before making Dounia's acquaintance, he had made up his mind to marry a girl of good reputation, without dowry and, above all, one who had experienced poverty, because, as he explained, a man ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is better for a wife to look upon her husband as 56 Crime and Punishmenther benefactor.
-- And Mikolka swung the shaft a second time and it fell a second time on the spine of the luckless mare.
-- The tea was again the second brew and again in her own tea-pot.
-- They were approaching; they were only a flight from him and suddenly deliverance!A few steps from him on the right, there was an empty flat with the door wide open, the flat on the second floor where the painters had been at work, and which, as though for his benefit, they had just left.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the second branch of the question, Iwill only remark, that unless I ran through that part of myinheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet.
-- My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that it wasMiss Betsey.
-- I discovered this, by his being out on the second orthird evening of our visit, and by Mrs. Gummidge's looking up atthe Dutch clock, between eight and nine, and saying he was there,and that, what was more, she had known in the morning he wouldgo there.
-- Afterwatching me into the second chop, he said'There's half a pint of alefor you.
-- 'He was eight years and six monthsold when they broke his first rib; eight years and eight months oldwhen they broke his second and did for him.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how de-lightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
-- After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.
-- But as to my letting her marry Robert Martin, it is impossible; she has refused him, and so decidedly, I think, as must prevent any second ap-plication.
-- They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had tran-scribed it some pages ago already.
-- Another view of man, my second brings, Behold him there, the monarch of the seas!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.
-- It was a second to remember another phase of the matter.
-- said the second woman, passing on the question to the nearest man in that direction.
-- He always signed his name "Henery" strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second "e" was superfluous and old-fashioned, he received the reply that "H-e-n-e-r-y" was the name he was christened and the name he would stick to in the tone of one to whom orthographical differences were matters which had a great deal to do with personal character.
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