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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That affair of the first bond for four thousand five hundredpounds has not taken the course that was expected, Gulpidge,' saidMr. Henry Spiker.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And do you really believe the affair to have been car-rying on with such perfect secresy? The Campbells, the Dixons, did none of them know of the engagement?'
-- I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the sudden-ness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects, I should not have presumed on such early measures, but from the very particular circum-stances, which left me not an hour to lose.
-- Mrs. Weston was acting no part, feigning no feelings in all that she said to him in favour of the event. She had been extremely surprized, never more so, than when Emma 572 Emmafirst opened the affair to her; but she saw in it only increase of happiness to all, and had no scruple in urging him to the utmost. She had such a regard for Mr. Knightley, as to think he deserved even her dearest Emma; and it was in every respect so proper, suitable, and unexceptionable a connexion, and in one respect, one point of the highest im-portance, so peculiarly eligible, so singularly fortunate, that now it seemed as if Emma could not safely have attached her-self to any other creature, and that she had herself been the stupidest of beings in not having thought of it, and wished it long ago. How very few of those men in a rank of life to address Emma would have renounced their own home for Hartfield!And who but Mr. Knightley could know and bear with Mr. Woodhouse, so as to make such an arrange-ment desirable! The difficulty of disposing of poor Mr. Woodhouse had been always felt in her husband's plans and her own, for a marriage between Frank and Emma.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do hope she has come to no harm through a man of that kind.... And then there's this disgraceful affair of the bailiff but I can't speak of him now."
-- Men and boys who had peeped through chinks or over walls into the barrack-yard returned with accounts of its being the most flashing affair conceivable; accoutrements and weapons glistening like stars here, there, around yet all by rule and compass.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
-- The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butlerhad been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins: That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now adollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What stung me, was the identification of the whole affair with my unoffending self.
-- So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles, made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr. Wopsle and Denmark.
-- When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle, dark-eyed girl, and of the motherly woman who had not outlived her honest sympathy with a little affair of true love, I felt as if the Old Green Copper Rope-walk had grown quite a different place.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thus, by the great friendship of the secretary, the whole affair was compromised.
-- However, for the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify the king of Luggnagg by an uncommon mark of his favour, he would comply with the singularity of my humour; but the affair must be managed with dexterity, and his officers should be commanded to let me pass, as it were by forgetfulness.
-- They went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often turning their eyes towards me, as it were to watch that I might not escape.
-- I remember my master having once made an appointment with a friend and his family to come to his house, upon some affair of importance: on the day fixed, the mistress and her two children came very late; she made two excuses, first for her husband, who, as she said, hap-pened that very morning to shnuwnh.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In the first place," he continued, "you must keep the whole affair a profound secret.
-- Many learned men belonging to various scientific bodies, and noteworthy among others, Messrs. Milne-Edwards and De Quatrefages, took the affair very much to heart, demonstrated the incontestable authenticity of the bone in question, and became--to use the phrase then recognized in England--the most ardent supporters of the "jawbone question."
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：
-- Chapter 4 onnie always had a foreboding of the hopelessness of Cher affair with Mick, as people called him.
-- And his 'educating' her roused in her a passion of excitement and response much deeper than any love affair could have done.
-- But Connie was preoccupied with her affair with the keeper.
-- 'What I mean,' he said, 'is that if you go to Venice, you won't go in the hopes of some love affair that you can take AU GRAND S RIEUX, will you?'
-- 'A love affair in Venice AU GRAND S RIEUX?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, when Daniel came back, he found the affair as good as concluded.
-- 'It is no affair of mine.
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