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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful.
-- He hastily scanned the ditch and after walking about ten yards along it found the hat among the leaves.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His habit of life was very regular; he usually went out after breakfast, returning in time for dinner, and disappeared for the rest of the evening, letting himself in about midnight with a latch key, a privilege that Mme.
-- It was a characteristic trait of his generously to pay fifteen francs a month for the cup of coffee with a dash of brandy in it, which he took after dinner.
-- Vauquer's magpie's eye had discovered and read certain entries in the list of shareholders in the 莽卢卢 9 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 funds, and, after a rough calculation, was disposed to credit Goriot (worthy man) with something like ten thousand francs a year.
-- After dinner the two widows went together up to Mme.
-- After much serious consideration the two widows went shopping together--they purchased a hat adorned with ostrich feathers and a cap at the Palais Royal, and the Countess took her friend to the Magasin de la Petite Jeannette, where they chose a dress and a scarf.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shall I meet you again, after having traversed immense seas, and returned by the most southern cape of Africa or America?
-- About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
-- We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to en-counter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
-- Soon after this he inquired if I thought that the breaking up of the ice had destroyed the other sledge.
-- He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the inter-ment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Yankees may be scared of us, but after theway General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand brandedas cowards before the whole world.
-- I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would haveruined the Christmas parties, too.
-- It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
-- And after an interval a tall black boy of their own age ran breathlessly around thehouse and out toward the tethered horses.
-- After all, it's our first day home and shehasn't seen us in quite a spell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets.
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger.
-- The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
-- It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went to the king, and told him all his brothers' roguery; and they were seized and punished, and he had the princess given to him again; and after the king's death he was heir to his kingdom.
-- As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another, a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
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