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：
-- While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for fin-ery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet and satisfied, as to betray that he had already effect-ed the grand purpose of his treachery.
-- 'In truth, we have a little wonder why you should so rigidly absent yourself from a place where the gratitude of the daughters might receive the support of a parent's thanks.'
-- 'Your father himself could tell you, that, though absent from your presence, I have not been altogether forgetful of your safety,' returned the young man; 'the mastery of yon-der village of huts,' pointing to the neighboring entrenched camp, 'has been keenly disputed; and he who holds it is sure to be possessed of this fort, and that which it contains.
-- Several pipes, that had been extinguished, were lighted again; while the new-comer, without speaking a word, drew his tomahawk from his girdle, and filling the bowl on its head began to inhale the vapors of the weed through the hollow handle, with as much indifference as if he had not been absent two weary days on a long and toilsome hunt.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarcely had the four castaways set foot on firm ground, than they all, thinking of the absent one, simultaneously exclaimed, "Perhaps he will try to swim to land!Let us save him!let us save him!"
-- And that evening, before sleeping, the new colonists talked of their absent country; they spoke of the terrible war which stained it with blood; they could not doubt that the South would soon be subdued, and that the cause of the North, the cause of justice, would triumph, thanks to Grant, thanks to Lincoln!
-- exclaimed Pencroft, thinking of his absent tooth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she.
-- His avarice and caution being, now, thoroughly awakened, however, he was never absent from the house one night; and his eagerness for some termination, good or bad, to the old man's disorder, increasing rapidly, as the time passed by, soon began to vent itself in open murmurs and exclamations of impatience.
-- Abel has never been absent from us, for a day; has he, my dear?'
-- Mr Swiveller explained that his respectable friend had recently accepted a responsible situation in a locomotive gaming-house, and was at that time absent on a professional tour among the adventurous spirits of Great Britain.
-- These complimentary expressions were uttered in a somewhat absent and distracted manner; for the unfortunate lawyer, besides having a bad cold in his head, had got wet in coming, and would have willingly borne some pecuniary sacrifice if he could have shifted his present raw quarters to a warm room, and dried himself at a fire.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was postponing the case against the Skoptzy, although the absent witness was an entirely unnecessary one.
-- Then commenced the customary proceeding; calling of the jurymen, fining the absent ones, listening to the claims of exemption from jury duty and filling the panel from a number of reserves.
-- Absence changed to absent from original sentence (Part 1, Ch.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was de trop, her mood was absent and separate.
-- "Yes," she said vaguely, in a doubting, absent voice.
-- Gudrun sat down, as if, absent as he was, his will had power over her.
-- There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of atrophy.
-- His mind was absent all the evening, estranged by the snow and his passion.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was absent such a while that Joseph proposed we should wait no longer.
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