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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I!I'm a second father to you,' replied Quilp.
-- As Frederick Trent himself, utterly regardless of his sister, had this object at heart, only second to the hope of gain, it seemed to him the more likely to be Quilp's main principle of action.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few days afterward the author sent for her a second time.
-- The second door."
-- "My name is Baklashoff, merchant of the second guild," he introduced himself, extending his soft, broad hand; "we must do our duty.
-- "Merchant of the second guild, Peter Baklashoff."
-- "It is impossible," Nekhludoff continued to repeat, although there was no doubt in his mind now that it was she, that same servant ward with whom he had been in love at one time--yes, in love, real love, and whom in a moment of mental fever he led astray, then abandoned, and to whom he never gave a second thought, because the recollection of it was too painful, revealed too manifestly that he, who prided himself of his good breeding, not only did not treat her decently, but basely deceived her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone vanished!Save for the lamp the table was bare.
-- "There I found a second great hall covered with cushions, upon which, perhaps, a score or so of the little people were sleeping.
-- I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match.
-- After an instant's pause I followed it into the second heap of ruins.
-- Plainly, this second species of Man was subterranean.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can be the White Queen's Pawn, if you like, as Lily's too young to play; and you're in the Second Square to begin with: when you get to the Eighth Square you'll be a Queen ' Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run.
-- However, on second thoughts, she made up her mind to go on: 'for I certainly won't go back,' she thought to herself, and this was the only way to the Eighth Square.
-- 'At least,' she corrected herself on second thoughts, 'a beautiful cravat, I should have said no, a belt, I mean I beg your pardon!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the second death I had known, and the sorrow of the first was still fresh in my heart.
-- But he was on his feet again in a second and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses.
-- Second point, we have time before us at least until this treasure's found.
-- This second trip fairly aroused the watchers along shore.
-- That we should have risked a second boat load seems more daring than it really was.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second lieutenant loaded the blunder busses, which could throw harpoons to the distance of a mile, and long duck-guns, with explosive bullets, which inflicted mortal wounds even to the most terrible animals.
-- They heaved the log a second time.
-- The second stranger merits a more detailed description.
-- He continued the conversation in these terms:"You have doubtless thought, sir, that I have delayed long in paying you this second visit.
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