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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though he had not yet opened his mouth, he gave one the impression of being a great talker, and moreover, one of those absent folks who neither see though they are looking, nor hear though they are listening.
-- The close of the day was spent in complete repose and pleasant talk about the dear absent ones.
-- Another of your absent fits."
-- The passengers had fallen back into their ordinary ship life, and it hardly seemed as if they really could have been absent a whole month.
-- He left the room immediately to fetch his official document, and, though hardly absent a minute, Paddy O'Moore managed to say, "My Lord, you may trust Ayrton; I vouch for his being an honest man.
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：
-- 'If matters came to a crisis I should endeavour to be present in person; but you can understand that, with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters, it is impossible for me to be absent from London for an indefinite time.
-- It had not crossed my mind, however, that he would wish me to go with him, nor could I understand how we could both be absent at a moment which he himself declared to be critical.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Replying to them, he made known to the inquirer that he certainly had been long absent from Russia, more than four years; that he had been sent abroad for his health; that he had suffered from some strange nervous malady a kind of epilepsy, with convulsive spasms.
-- But Gania hardly so much as glanced at the papers lying before him; he was absent and thought-ful, and his smile and general appearance struck the prince still more disagreeably now that the two were left alone to-gether.
-- Some of her guests suspected that she must be ill; but concluded at last that she was expecting something, for she continued to look at her watch impatiently and unceasingly; she was most absent and strange.
-- You must excuse my being a little absent this evening.
-- He is very absent just now, evidently.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was not a river absent except Oceanus, nor a single one of the nymphs that haunt fair groves, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was absent some time.
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：
-- On that day, two men were lingering on the banks of a small but rapid stream, within an hour's journey of the en-campment of Webb, like those who awaited the appearance of an absent person, or the approach of some expected event.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and thumb-worn files.
-- And in degree, all this will hold true concerning whaling vessels crossing each other's track on the cruising-ground itself, even though they are equally long absent from home.
-- No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are absent four years with four barrels; no wonder that to many ship owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, he heaved a sigh over the recollections he awakened; and being, happily for himself, an absent old gentleman, buried them again in the pages of the musty book.
-- exclaimed the absent old gentleman, innocently.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made a collar for this little creature, and with a string, which I made of some rope-yam, which I always carried about me, I led him along, though with some difficulty, till I came to my bower, and there I enclosed him and left him, for I was very impatient to be at home, from whence I had been absent above a month.
-- And here, whenever I had occasion to be absent from my chief seat, I took up my country habitation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.
-- Though uncertain that any one were to blame, she found fault with every absent friend.
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