from是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 从， 自从； 由于； 离； 根据， 按； 去除，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
-- The girl on the summit of the load sat motionless, surrounded by tables and chairs with their legs upwards, backed by an oak settle, and ornamented in front by pots of geraniums, myrtles, and cactuses, together with a caged canary all probably from the windows of the house just vacated.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The front of the lodging-house is at right angles to the road, and looks out upon a little garden, so that you see the side of the house in section, as it were, from the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve.
-- Vauquer persists in calling them, in spite of the fact that she was a de Conflans, and regardless of repeated corrections from her lodgers.
-- Another door opens out of it into the dining-room, which is separated from the kitchen by the well of the staircase, the steps being constructed partly of wood, partly of tiles, which are colored and beeswaxed.
-- The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow height, and the rest of the wall space is decorated with a varnished paper, on which the principal scenes from _Telemaque_ are depicted, the various classical personages being colored.
-- The damp atmosphere sends a chill through you as you breathe it; it has a stuffy, musty, and rancid quality; it permeates your clothing; after-dinner scents seem to be mingled in it with smells from the kitchen and scullery and the reek of a hospital.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes.
-- I can, even now, remember the hour from which I dedicated myself to this great enterprise.
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards ofbillowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recentlybrought her from Atlanta.
-- They hadjust been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; andtheir older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them, because they refused to remain at an institution wherethe twins were not welcome.
-- Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, she went back with interest to their immediatesituation.
-- The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, byrequest, from the University of Virginia.
-- The darkies were hanging from the rafters, popeyed, they were soscared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
-- From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch.
-- I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away.
-- Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, 'You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.'
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