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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affair recalled the worst disasters of American railways.
-- The order of the march had been changed in one respect since the affair of Camden Bridge.
-- It will only be an affair of four days.
-- John Mangles, who had watched him since the affair at Snowy River, felt that the geographer was hesitating whether to speak or not to speak.
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：
-- I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.
-- 'And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel.
-- 'I'd prefer to walk, for this affair has flurried me rather.'
-- By the way, your instructions to me never to allow Sir Henry to go out alone will become very much more onerous if a love affair were to be added to our other difficulties.
-- I remembered your the-ory of the affair and tried to picture all that had occurred.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is an affair in which you ought to act honestly with both sides, and give due warning, to avoid compromising others.
-- And as to the third of our trio, Epanchin, of course after that little affair with the poodle in the railway carriage, it was all UP between us.'
-- A visit to her is merely an- affair of a few minutes; I am quite at home in her house.
-- But, do you know, when I was talking over your affair with him, he was angry, and said that anyone who did not call out a man who had given him a blow was a coward.
-- Her affair with Keller was simply to make a laughing-stock of me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I rested from work for some days after this, and was in a mind to write an account of the whole affair to wake up English physiology.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tribe consented to act with deliberation, and with one voice they committed the direction of the whole affair to the government of the chief who had suggested such wise and intelligible expedients.
-- After which, we will carry the village, and take the woman from the cave; when the affair may be finished with the tribe, according to a white man's battle, by a blow and a victory; or, in the In-dian fashion, with dodge and cover.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever Marianne was desirous of, her mother would be eager to promote she could not expect to influence the latter to cautiousness of conduct in an affair respecting which she had never been able to inspire her with distrust; and she dared not explain the motive of her own disinclination for going to London.
-- In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter IX CONVENTION'S OWN TINDER-BOX--THE EYE THAT IS GREEN Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick building of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the first floor sunk a very little below the level of the street.
-- He had had no love affair since that which culminated in his marriage, and since then time and the world had taught him how raw and erroneous was his original judgment.
-- When, however, he started west on the car he forgot, and was only reminded of his delinquency by an item in the "Evening News"--a small three-line affair under the head of Secret Society Notes--which stated the Custer Lodge of the Order of Elks would give a theatrical performance in Avery Hall on the 16th, when "Under the Gaslight" would be produced.
-- He would make it a dress-suit affair and give the little girl a chance.
-- The members of Custer Lodge could scarcely understand why their little affair was taking so well.
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