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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He soon came within reach of the bait, turned over on his back to make a good dart at it, and in a second bacon and contents had disappeared.
-- The second piece of paper was even more destroyed than the first; only a few scattered words remained here and there.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But our voyage was other-wise determined; for, being in the latitude of twelve degrees eighteen minutes, a second storm came upon us, which carried us away with the same impetuosity westward, and drove us so out of the way of all human commerce, that, had all our lives been saved as to the sea, we were rather in danger of being devoured by savages than ever returning to our own country.
-- I swam round her twice, and the second time I spied a small piece of rope, which I wondered I did not see at first, hung down by the fore-chains so low, as that with great difficulty I got hold of it, and by the help of that rope I got up into the forecastle of the ship.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of their personal charms he had not required a second interview to be convinced.
-- Another meeting will suffice to explain his sentiments on picturesque beauty, and second marriages, and then you can have nothing farther to ask.
-- His eyes were fixed on Marianne, and, after a silence of some minutes, he said, with a faint smile, "Your sister, I understand, does not approve of second attachments."
-- After a short pause he resumed the conversation by saying, "Does your sister make no distinction in her objections against a second attachment?
-- I only know that I never yet heard her admit any instance of a second attachment's being pardonable."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a second New York--great.
-- On the second floor were the managerial offices, to which, after some inquiry, she was now directed.
-- It had a large bay window bulging out from the second floor, and was graced in front by a small grassy plot, twenty- five feet wide and ten feet deep.
-- They were in the sitting room on the second floor, waiting for supper.
-- In the second scene, where she was supposed to face the company in the ball-room, she did even better, winning the smile of the director, who volunteered, because of her fascination for him, to come over and speak with her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They agreed to get to- gether and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.
-- I was up in a second and shinning down the hill.
-- Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I couldn't hear noth-ing else.
-- I laid him out in a second with a stick, and Jim grabbed pap's whisky-jug and begun to pour it down.
-- This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this second lie, his nose grew a few more inches.
-- A second time he came to the door and again he ran back.
-- Pinocchio, who was trembling with fear and shivering from the cold rain on his back, knocked a second time, this time louder than before.
-- At that second knock, a window on the third floor opened and the same Snail looked out.
-- He went a second time, and again a third, but still without success.
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