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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made no answer, and had turned his face away from her again, and Mrs. Hall, feeling that her conversational advances were ill-timed, laid the rest of the table things in a quick staccato and whisked out of the room.
-- It would seem he was picking something from the floor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain.
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao.
-- The laugh caught me suddenly like a thing from without.
-- I said slowly, hoarse from my long silence.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- It was the jackal Tabaqui, the Dish-licker and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about mak-ing mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps.
-- 'How beautiful are the noble children!How large are their eyes!And so young too!Indeed, indeed, I might have re-membered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.'
-- 'He has been lame in one foot from his birth.
-- The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
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：
-- He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, and the vegetable world.
-- In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
-- Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.
-- The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which their fathers dwelt, or altogether from the earth.
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
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