affair是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 事务； 事情(件) ； (个人的) 事，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you must not think that the affair is over now; it grows much worse.
-- Other pieces were put in spectacles; and that was a sad affair when people put on their glasses to see well and rightly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she repeated, raising her voice, "after my husband, the father of my children, enters into a love affair with his own children's governess?"
-- She was afraid that her daughter, who had at one time, as she fancied, a feeling for Levin, might, from extreme sense of honor, refuse Vronsky, and that Levin's arrival might generally complicate and delay the affair so near being concluded.
-- For Levin it was the chief affair of life, on which its whole happiness turned.
-- "The question of her feelings, of what has passed and may be passing in her soul, that's not my affair; that's the affair of her conscience, and falls under the head of religion," he said to himself, feeling consolation in the sense that he had found to which division of regulating principles this new circumstance could be properly referred.
-- He saw that instead of doing as he had intended--that is to say, warning his wife against a mistake in the eyes of the world--he had unconsciously become agitated over what was the affair of her conscience, and was struggling against the barrier he fancied between them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affair which formed its subject, and which was town talk, had occurred three days before at the Bank of England.
-- I don't see how this affair could have delayed his master."
-- "Everybody knows about this affair in Bundelcund."
-- which, from him, was high commendation; to which Passepartout replied that all the credit of the affair belonged to Mr. Fogg.
-- Phileas Fogg understood what was passing in Aouda's mind, and offered, in order to reassure her, to escort her to Hong Kong, where she might remain safely until the affair was hushed up an offer which she eagerly and gratefully accepted.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first affair to which she enticed him was her big New Year's Party in January.
-- He was flustered when he tried to prepare his notes, and on the morning of the affair he was chill as he remembered the dreadful thing he would do this day, but he was desperate with embarrassment when he came up to the Star of Hope Church.
-- "Well, you know how busy I am, but--" Klopchuk appeared at eleven, and to Klopchuk the affair was tragic.
-- A plague epidemic today, in a civilized land, is no longer an affair of people dying in the streets and of drivers shouting "Bring out your dead."
-- His shanty was a two-room affair of logs, with bunks for beds and oilcloth for table-linen.
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：
-- Anyway she succeeded in completely re-establishing Dounia's reputation and the whole ignominy of this affair rested as an indelible disgrace upon her husband, as the only person to blame, so that I re-ally began to feel sorry for him; it was really treating the crazy fellow too harshly.
-- We may add only that the practical, purely material difficulties of the affair occupied a secondary posi-tion in his mind.
-- 'Allow me to explain that I have been living with her for nearly three years and at first 芒聙娄 at first 芒聙娄 for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given 芒聙娄 she was a girl 芒聙娄 indeed, I liked her, though I was not in love with her 芒聙娄 a youthful affair in fact 芒聙娄 that is, I mean to say, that my landlady gave me credit freely in those days, and I led a life of 芒聙娄 I was very heedless 芒聙娄' 'Nobody asks you for these personal details, sir, we've no time to waste,' Ilya Petrovitch interposed roughly and with a note of triumph; but Raskolnikov stopped him hotly, though he suddenly found it exceedingly difficult to speak.
-- I have, too, a very important legal affair in the Senate, not to mention other preoccupa-tions which you may well conjecture.
-- 'He has never spoken a word of that affair to me,' Razu-mihin answered cautiously.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, walking asidewith me when he had disposed of my affair in these terms.
-- They are like actors: now he's one thing, now he's another; nowhe's something else, change and change about; but it's always avery pleasant profitable little affair of private theatricals, presentedto an uncommonly select audience.'
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