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：
-- "The second line is completely effaced," continued the Captain; "but here are two important words on the third.
-- "I see now what GRAUS is part of in the second document.
-- She made rapid progress, and passed the Tropic of Cancer on the second of September at 5 A. M.The weather now began to change, and the atmosphere became damp and heavy.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Recognizing, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe ' 'Indeed, sir!May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?'
-- The second brother, who died young, is the father of this lad Henry.
-- The one is whether any crime has been committed at all; the second is, what is the crime and how was it committed?
-- I should then at my leisure have hired a second cab and followed the first at a respectful distance, or, better still, have driven to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there.
-- Very good, we will send a second wire to the postmaster, Grimpen: 'Telegram to Mr. Barrymore to be delivered into his own hand.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are people who know everyone that is, they know where a man is employed, what his salary is, whom he knows, whom he married, what money his wife had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, etc., etc.
-- The eldest was musical, while the second was a clever artist, which fact she had con-cealed until lately.
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
-- But exactly three months later at the inspection of the brigade, the man Kolpakoff was found in the third company of the second battalion of infantry, Novozemlianski division, just as if nothing had happened!'
-- 'Yes, I see your mother and sister,' muttered Rogojin, through his teeth; and Lebedeff seemed to feel himself called upon to second the statement.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove sat for a while silent, and without a word, but Thetis still kept firm hold of his knees, and besought him a second time.
-- In a second he was on the ground, whereupon the goddess mounted the car and placed herself by the side of Diomed.
-- Diomed looked sternly at him and answered, 'Think not, Dolon, for all the good information you have given us, that you shall escape now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and an end of you, you will give no more trouble.'
-- The second company was led by noble Eudorus, son to an unwedded woman.
-- Sarpedon now took a second aim at Patroclus, and again missed him, the point of the spear passed over his left shoul-der without hitting him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face.
-- There was Fearenside telling about it all over again for the second time; there was Mrs. Hall saying his dog didn't have no business to bite her guests; there was Huxter, the general dealer from over the road, interrogative; and Sandy Wadgers from the forge, judicial; besides women and children, all of them saying fatuities: "Wouldn't let en bite me, I knows"; "'Tasn't right have such dargs"; "Whad 'e bite 'n for, than?"
-- He turned round in a helpless way and took a second glass of the excellent vicar's very inferior sherry.
-- The second labourer came round in a circle, stared, and conceiving that Hall had tumbled over of his own accord, turned to resume the pursuit, only to be tripped by the ankle just as Huxter had been.
-- Five minutes afterwards when a second cabman pushed his head in cautiously, they were still waiting, and an anxious face peered out of the bar-parlour and supplied information.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the second day the sea subsided slowly to a glassy calm.
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