today是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 在今天； 现今， 在当代n. 今天； 现在，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But today that satisfaction was embittered by Matrona Philimonovna's advice and the unsatisfactory state of the household.
-- I heard today that my brother Nikolay...you know, he's here...I had even forgotten him.
-- Do you know why I'm going today instead of tomorrow?
-- Anna liked her, but today she seemed to be seeing her for the first time with all her defects.
-- "Three people have used that very phrase about Kaulbach to me today already, just as though they had made a compact about it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took out and consulted a pocket almanac, and added, "As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds, now deposited in my name at Baring's, will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "To go far below the surface of this matter into the fundamental philosophy and esthetics of office- furnishing for the doctor, there are today two warring schools, the Tapestry School and the Aseptic School, if I may venture to so denominate and conveniently distinguish them.
-- They sang a brief cheerful hymn or two-- Martin wondering whether to sit or stand--and the chairman prayed that "our friend who will address us today may have power to put his Message across."
-- Today, St. Hubert is all sugar-cane and Ford cars, oranges and plantains and the red and yellow pods of cocoa, bananas and rubber trees and jungles of bamboo, Anglican churches and tin chapels, colored washerwomen busy at the hollows in the roots of silk-cotton trees, steamy heat and royal palms and the immortelle that fills the valleys with crimson; today it is all splendor and tourist dullness and cabled cane-quotations, against the unsparing sun.
-- But just today he comes to me and says he cannot get enough sea-urchins for his experiments.
-- He shouted and sang--and took precautions for working among rats and the agile fleas: the high boots, the strapped wrists, and the rubber neck-band which he had invented and which is known in every tropical supply shop today as the Sondelius Anti- vermin Neck Protector.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, today she had no eye for sun or azure sky beyond a hasty thought, "Thank God, it isn'training."
-- Today she woulduse different ones, the right ones.
-- Today was the day!
-- She could see that Stuart was going to be difficult to handle today if she flirted with anyone else.
-- And today she tried to take Mr. Kennedy and Ashley and Charles " "I must get home!"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Today I'll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I'll dance and sing, For next day will a stranger bring.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grey and clammy and silent, even from the shuffling of the collieries, for the pits were working short time, and today they were stopped altogether.
-- Today she could almost feel it in her own body, the huge heave of the sap in the massive trees, up-wards, up, up to the bud-a, there to push into little flamey oak-leaves, bronze as blood.
-- PANEM ET CIRCENSES!Only today education is one of the bad substi-tutes for a circus.
-- What is wrong today is that we've made a profound hash of the circuses part of the programme, and poisoned our masses with a little education.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today be-cause you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time.
-- At the Kings' today I found ev-erybody in a flurry, and one of the children said that her oldest brother had done something dreadful, and Papa had sent him away.
-- 'Su-sie Perkins came to school today with a lovely red carnelian ring.
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