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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the other hand, she might wish to keep the affair quiet, and it might be highly indiscreet on my part to give any sign that this strange news had reached me.
-- The affair seemed to grow more complicated, and the Colonel, with his expletives and his indignation, confused rather than informed me.
-- Moreover, to him the affair was commonplace; it was just an hysterical woman who had quarrelled with her lover and taken poison; it was constantly happening.
-- A latent gift might reveal itself on acquaintance with the painters and writers whose society his wife sought; or domestic incompatability might turn him upon himself; a love affair might fan into bright flame a fire which I could have shown smouldering dimly in his heart.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was he who, after the affair of the Black River, determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office, and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle, telegraphed for two hours the first chapters of the Bible.
-- The last words in his note-book were these: "A Southern rifleman has just taken aim at me, but " The Southerner notwithstanding missed Gideon Spilett, who, with his usual fortune, came out of this affair without a scratch.
-- There was no doubt about the rope having been worn through, but the astonishing part of the affair was, that the boat should arrive just at the moment when the settlers were there to seize it on its way, for a quarter of an hour earlier or later it would have been lost in the sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not fifty single gentlemen rolled into one could have helped poor Kit, who in half an hour afterwards was committed for trial, and was assured by a friendly officer on his way to prison that there was no occasion to be cast down, for the sessions would soon be on, and he would, in all likelihood, get his little affair disposed of, and be comfortably transported, in less than a fortnight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, that awful affair occurred after that notable commemoration of Christ's resurrection!"
-- "It isn't worth while to alter my mode of life while Maslova's affair is unsettled," he thought.
-- The affair of which Vera Efremovna wished to speak to Nekhludoff consisted of the following: A chum of hers, Shustova, who did not even belong to her sub-section, was arrested because in her dwelling were found books and papers which had been left with her for safe keeping.
-- The affair with Katiousha was at an end.
-- Some other affair of his was yet unsettled--an affair which tortured him and required his attention.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was no affair of mine, I thought; and besides, it was difficult to know what to do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a foolish affair after all, and one upon which we entered too lightly.
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