after是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…以后； 在…后面adv. 以后， 后来，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The discussion fell during the rubber, after which Stuart took up its thread.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a long gurgle the invisible Doc put away the bottle and decisively kicked the doors shut.
-- After three years on a backwoods football team he still believed with unflinching optimism that he could sterilize young men by administering reproofs, with the nickering of a lady Sunday School teacher and the delicacy of a charging elephant.
-- At supper--the thirty piratical Digams sitting at a long and spotty table, devouring clam chowder and beans and codfish balls and banana layer-cake--the Freshmen earnestly repeated after a senior: On old Olympus' topmost top A fat-eared German viewed a hop.
-- To the Digams it was the world's noblest poem, and they remembered it for years after they had become practicing physicians and altogether forgotten the names of the nerves themselves.
-- IV It was a week after the concert that he rediscovered Madeline Fox.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After eight months' imprisonment he was with twenty-one others tak-en out to the Semyonovsky Square to be shot.
-- He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated wretchedness and gloomy excitement that he longed to rest, if only for a moment, in some other world, whatever it might be; and, in spite of the filthiness of the surroundings, he was glad now to stay in the tavern.
-- This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept in order at home.
-- 'Well,' the orator began again stolidly and with even in-creased dignity, after waiting for the laughter in the room to subside.
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire inthe best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; andwhen they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, mymother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.
-- As the elms bent to one another, like giants who werewhispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell intoa violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their lateconfidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, someweather-beaten ragged old rooks'-nests burdening their higherbranches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
-- There was atwitch of Miss Betsey's head, after each of these sentences, as if herown old wrongs were working within her, and she repressed anyplainer reference to them by strong constraint.
-- Mr. Chillip could do nothing after this, but sit and look at herfeebly, as she sat and looked at the fire, until he was called upstairsagain.
-- After some quarter of an hour's absence, he returned.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.
-- He had returned to a late dinner, after some days' absence, and now walked up to Hartfield to say that all were well in Brunswick Square.
-- Mr. Knightley had a cheerful manner, which always did him good; and his many inquiries after 'poor Is-abella' and her children were answered most satisfactorily.
-- It is the greatest amusement in the world!And after such success, you know! Every body said 12 Emmathat Mr. Weston would never marry again.
-- If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encourage-ments, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For these the indispensable conditions of existence are attachment to the soil of one particular spot by generation after generation.
-- After such a nocturnal reconnoitre it is hard to get back to earth, and to believe that the consciousness of such majestic speeding is derived from a tiny human frame.
-- After placing the little creature with its mother, he stood and carefully examined the sky, to ascertain the time of night from the altitudes of the stars.
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