conference是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (正式) 会议； 讨论， 商谈，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of hold-ing a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their conference was very short, but very decided.
-- 'And as such,' quoth Mr. Lorry, whom the counsel learned in the law had now shouldered back into the group, just as he had previously shouldered him out of it 'as such I will appeal to Doctor Manette, to break up this conference and order us all to our homes.
-- Shall we terminate our conference for the night?'
-- Mr. Lorry readily engaged for that, and the conference was ended.
-- The result of that conference was, that Gabelle again withdrew himself to his housetop behind his stack of chimneys; this time re-solved, if his door were broken in (he was a small Southern 330 A tale of two citiesman of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head fore-most over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. and Mrs. Tozer said they were all to be calm, and of course Bert didn't mean-- But really, it was true; they had to be sensible, and how Mr. Arrowsmith could expect to support a wife-- The conference lasted till nine-thirty, which, as Mr. Tozer pointed out, was everybody's bedtime, and except for the five-minute discussion as to whether Miss Ada Quist was to stay to supper, and the debate on the saltiness of this last cornbeef, they clave faithfully to the inquiry as to whether Martin and Leora were engaged.
-- Mr. Tozer came out of the international conference as craftily joyful as any Mr. Secretary Tozer or Lord Tozer in Washington or London: "Fine!Fine!We made him commit himself!Twenty-five, he says.
-- "I've just been in conference with some of the leading Republicans of the district.
-- McGurk would slip away from a conference affecting the commerce of a whole West Indian island to sit on a high stool, silent, and watch Gottlieb work.
-- He was suddenly in conference with conductors of symphony orchestras, directors of art-schools, owners of itinerant Chautauquas, liberal governors, ex- clergymen who wrote tasty philosophy for newspaper syndicates, in fact all the proprietors of American intellectuality-- particularly including a millionaire named Minnigen who had recently been elevating the artistic standards of the motion pictures.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- would be the time for me to rise and propose a private conference in the vestry.
-- My reason is to be found in what took place in Mr. Pumblechook's parlor: where, on our presenting ourselves, my sister sat in conference with that detested seedsman.
-- "I wish to have a private conference with you two," said he, when he had surveyed me at his leisure.
-- Our conference was held in the state parlor, which was feebly lighted by one candle.
-- Our conference being now ended, and everything arranged, I rose to go; remarking to Herbert that he and I had better not go home together, and that I would take half an hour's start of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby now appeared, accompanied by Mr. Gradgrind and the whelp, with whom he had been holding conference up-stairs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the parrot on his cage above them, presiding over the conference as if he were a judge (and indeed he looked rather like one), had wound up the exposition with a shriek.
-- The conference was held at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, when all the region of Harley Street, Cavendish Square, was resonant of carriage-wheels and double-knocks.
-- Something Wrong SomewhereThe family had been a month or two at Venice, when Mr Dorrit, who was much among Counts and Marquises, and had but scant leisure, set an hour of one day apart, beforehand, for the purpose of holding some conference with Mrs General.
-- In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holdenThe famous name of Merdle became, every day, more famous in the land.
-- and he went, and took his place in the conference for some five minutes more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The conference was a long one.
-- Mr. Giles walked into the corner with much importance, and some wonder, and was honoured with a short whispering conference with the doctor, on the termination of which, he made a great many bows, and retired with steps of unusual stateliness.
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