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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- Yet, so far have you been from answering my ex-pectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of de-grading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning.
-- The deadly statistical recorder in the Gradgrind observatory knocked every second on the head as it was born, and buried it with his accustomed regularity.
-- First person singular, I do not care; second person singular, thou dost not care; third person singular, she does not care,' returned Tom.
-- If his second leg had not been already there when he was called a dear fellow, he would have put it up at that great stage of the conversation.
-- At the end of the second day, he saw land; at the end of the third, his loom stood empty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take down the third atlas from the second shelf, series Z, plate 4."
-- Alas!a little Danish schooner, the Valkyrie, was to sail on the second of June for Reykjavik.
-- On the second of the month, at two in the morning, our precious cargo of luggage was taken on board the good ship Valkyrie.
-- This done, he threw the second half after the first.
-- Hans, who carried the second apparatus, had it also put into operation.
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：
-- It was in her second winter at Wragby her father said to her: 'I hope, Connie, you won't let circumstances force you into being a demi-vierge.'
-- Sobs, snuffles, a fist taken from a blubbered face, and ablack shrewd eye cast for a second on the sixpence.
-- 'Do you think there is a second key to that little hut not far from John's Well, where the pheasants are reared?'
-- In fact he was almost rude when I asked about a second key.'
-- Connie had played this wom-an so much, it was almost second nature to her; but still, decidedly second.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lighted the second at the ashes of the first, and smoked on, looking sideways at his companion, who, preoccupied with his own case, hardly looked at him.
-- 'You bear it very well, Mr Meagles,' said the second speaker, smiling.
-- His neck was so twisted that the knotted ends of his white cravat usually dangled under one ear; his natural acerbity and energy, always contending with a second nature of habitual repression, gave his features a swollen and suffused look; and altogether, he had a weird appearance of having hanged himself at one time or other, and of having gone about ever since, halter and all, exactly as some timely hand had cut him down.
-- 'You promised me a second glass after I was rested.'
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