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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hector and the other councillors are now holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host.
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：
-- After shoving aside the bushes, and proceeding a few paces, he encountered the females, who awaited the result of the conference with anxiety, and not entirely without apprehension.
-- The Indian answered this bold defiance by a ghastly smile, that showed an unaltered purpose, while he motioned her away, as if to close the conference forever.
-- They had proceeded only a hundred yards from the works, when the little array which attended the French gen-eral to the conference was seen issuing from the hollow way which formed the bed of a brook that ran between the bat-teries of the besiegers and the fort.
-- He was seen to reenter the works during the first watches of the night, and imme-diately after a private conference with the commandant, to leave them again.
-- It rested solely with the oldest and most experi-enced of the men to lay the subject of the conference before the people.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dwarf beckoning his remaining companion to the other end of the room, held a short conference with him in whispers.
-- This conference at length concluded, she drew in her head again, and beckoned Nell to approach.
-- After an awkward pause, she thrust her head out of the window again, and had another conference with the driver upon some point on which they did not seem to agree quite so readily as on their former topic of discussion; but they concluded at last, and she addressed the grandfather again.
-- If the truth must be told, even Mr Swiveller's approaches to the single gentleman were of a very distant kind, and met with small encouragement; but, as he never returned from a monosyllabic conference with the unknown, without quoting such expressions as 'Swiveller, I know I can rely upon you,' 'I have no hesitation in saying, Swiveller, that I entertain a regard for you,' 'Swiveller, you are my friend, and will stand by me I am sure,' with many other short speeches of the same familiar and confiding kind, purporting to have been addressed by the single gentleman to himself, and to form the staple of their ordinary discourse, neither Mr Brass nor Miss Sally for a moment questioned the extent of his influence, but accorded to him their fullest and most unqualified belief.
-- As he could read in it, however, no additional information or anything to lead him to believe he had spoken falsely; and as Mr Swiveller, left to his own meditations, sighed deeply, and was evidently growing maudlin on the subject of Mrs Cheggs; the dwarf soon broke up the conference and took his departure, leaving the bereaved one to his melancholy ruminations.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here the conference ended.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The subject matter of this conference was not disclosed in the parlour, but the kitchen was speedily enlightened concerning it; for Mr. Giles walked straight thither, and having called for a mug of ale, announced, with an air of majesty, which was highly effective, that it had pleased his mistress, in consideration of his gallant behaviour on the occasion of that attempted robbery, to deposit, in the local savings-bank, the sum of five-and-twenty pounds, for his sole use and benefit.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Lucas called soon after breakfast, and in a pri-vate conference with Elizabeth related the event of the day before.
-- Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a few days' further conference with this ancient friend, he brought me an account of the first six years' in-come of my plantation, signed by my partner and the merchant-trustees, being always delivered in goods, viz.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This delay on the Colonel's side, however, did not seem to offend or mortify his fair companion in the least, for on their breaking up the conference soon afterwards, and moving different ways, Mrs. Jennings very plainly heard Elinor say, and with a voice which shewed her to feel what she said,"I shall always think myself very much obliged to you."
-- It was thus imparted to her, as soon as any opportunity of private conference between them occurred.
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