absent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 缺席的； 缺乏的， 不存在的； 心不在焉的，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son?
-- Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which prom-ised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime as-cribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
-- I must absent myself from all I loved while thus employed.
-- I may be absent a month or two; but do not interfere with my motions, I entreat you; leave me to peace and solitude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more congenial to your own temper.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt Pauline and her husband, a little old man, with a formal, brittle courtesy and the absent air of one living inan older age, lived on a plantation on the river, far more isolated than Tara.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his asking me if I was satisfied with the ground, and on my replying Yes, he begged my leave to absent himself for a moment, and quickly returned with a bottle of water and a sponge dipped in vinegar.
-- She then smiled upon me in an absent state of mind, and asked me if I liked the taste of orange-flower water?
-- I was to be absent only one night, and, on my return, the gratification of his impatience for my starting as a gentleman on a greater scale was to be begun.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Louisa,' and his hand rested on her hair again, 'I have been absent from here, my dear, a good deal of late; and though your sister's training has been pursued according to the system,' he appeared to come to that word with great reluctance always, 'it has necessarily been modified by daily associations begun, in her case, at an early age.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory--my uncle being absent at the time--I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues--i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.
-- It was a rare thing for me to be absent from his lectures.
-- As for his coadjutor, M. Pictursson, he was absent on an episcopal visit to the northern portion of the diocese.
-- They were now, however, absent on duty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a comfortable room, handsomely furnished in the higher official manner; an presenting stately suggestions of the absent Barnacle, in the thick carpet, the leather-covered desk to sit at, the leather-covered desk to stand at, the formidable easy-chair and hearth-rug, the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervading smell of leather and mahogany, and a general bamboozling air of How not to do it.
-- While Mrs Plornish spoke in these words of her absent lord, her lord returned.
-- First, there was the subject seldom absent from his mind, the question, what he was to do henceforth in life; to what occupation he should devote himself, and in what direction he had best seek it.
-- The Father of the Marshalsea always lifted up his eyebrows at this point, and became amiably distraught and smilingly absent in mind.
-- As he put the candle on a bracket, where the dark old panelling almost served as an extinguisher for it, he bethought himself of going up to tell the invalid that he would not be absent five minutes.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All were busy at home, John absent till night, and nothing to do but sew, or read, or potter about.
-- She had betrayed herself, however, by a look and a blush, for though an absent man, the Professor saw a good deal more than people fancied.
-- Along this walk, on Christmas Day, a tall young man walked slowly, with his hands behind him, and a somewhat absent expression of countenance.
-- And Lau-rie paused, for Amy's eyes had an absent look, though fixed upon his face.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
-- As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro in the far ocean fisheries a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.
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