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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That affair of Henry's that I told you of, is to take place.
-- Mrs Merdle had heard of this affair from Edmund.
-- He had doubts whether reference to any individual capital, or fortune, might not seem a wretchedly retail affair to so wholesale a dealer.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The comical side of the affair suddenly struck her, and she laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks.
-- Fifteen minutes after Aunt March's departure, Jo came softly downstairs, paused an instant at the parlor door, and hearing no sound within, nodded and smiled with a satis-fied expression, saying to herself, 'She has seen him away as we planned, and that affair is settled.
-- John Brooke', and evidently laboring under the delusion that the whole affair had been brought about by his excellent management.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mrs. Hussey," said I, "he's alive at all events; so leave us, if you please, and I will see to this strange affair myself."
-- It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin-gangway to the deck.
-- It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.
-- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
-- Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One evening, about a week after the affair of the picture, as he was sitting talking to Mrs. Bedwin, there came a message down from Mr. Brownlow, that if Oliver Twist felt pretty well, he should like to see him in his study, and talk to him a little while.
-- After a few days, the affair began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you must confess.
-- But Jane could think with certainty on only one point that Mr. Bingley, if he HAD been imposed on, would have much to suffer when the affair became public.
-- 'I have sent for you on an affair of importance.
-- Elizabeth could not but smile at such a conclusion of such a beginning, but Mrs. Bennet, who had persuaded her-self that her husband regarded the affair as she wished, was excessively disappointed.
-- There is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I conde-scended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This thought ran long in my head, and I was exceeding fond of it for some time, the pleasantness of the place tempt-ing me; but when I came to a nearer view of it, I considered that I was now by the seaside, where it was at least possible that something might happen to my advantage, and, by the same ill fate that brought me hither might bring some oth-er unhappy wretches to the same place; and though it was scarce probable that any such thing should ever happen, yet to enclose myself among the hills and woods in the centre of the island was to anticipate my bondage, and to render such an affair not only improbable, but impossible; and that therefore I ought not by any means to remove.
-- I reposed myself here a week, to rest and regale myself after my long journey; during which most of the time was taken up in the weighty affair of making a cage for my Poll, who began now to be a mere domestic, and to be well ac-quainted with me.
-- This affair put an end to our pursuit of the canoe with the other savages, who were now almost out of sight; and it was happy for us that we did not, for it blew so hard within two hours after, and before they could be got a quarter of their way, and continued blowing so hard all night, and that from the north-west, which was against them, that I could not suppose their boat could live, or that they ever reached their own coast.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will tell me, I know, that this may or may NOT have happened; but I will listen to no cavil, unless you can point out any other method of understanding the affair as satisfactory at this.
-- I know Marianne's heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible.
-- What other reason for the disclosure of the affair could there be, but that Elinor might be informed by it of Lucy's superior claims on Edward, and be taught to avoid him in future?
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