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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a time he thought he should like to go a little faster, so he smacked his lips and cried 'Jip!'
-- 'After all,' thought he, 'that chap is pretty well taken in.
-- And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the 19owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and meagre, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travel-lers, is a little too circumstantial.
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended 11by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swal-low, Captain Abraham Pannel, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts.
-- After three years expectation that things would mend, I accept-ed an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bitzer, after rapidly blinking at Thomas Gradgrind with both eyes at once, and so catching the light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antenn脙娄 of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead, and sat down again.
-- After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!'
-- 'I'll explain to you, then,' said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, 'why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses.
-- He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained.
-- He was an affectionate father, after his manner; but he would probably have described himself (if he had been put, like Sissy Jupe, upon a definition) as 'an eminently practical' father.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory--my uncle being absent at the time--I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues--i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.
-- Alas!my readers will see a very different portrait of him at a future time, after he has gone through the fearful adventures yet to be related.
-- After taking so much trouble, to find her master not appear at dinner was to her a sad disappointment--which, as she occasionally watched the havoc I was making on the viands, became also alarm.
-- If my uncle were to come to table after all?
-- "I should like to know what it means," he said, after a long period.
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：
-- It was obvious in the anxious brightness of his eyes, how proud he was, after the great shock, of being alive.
-- The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months...this they had never realized till it happened!
-- And if after the roused intimacy of these vivid and soul-enlightened discussions the sex thing became more or less inevitable, then let it.
-- However, came the war, Hilda and Connie were rushed home again after having been home already in May, to their mother's funeral.
-- He seemed so old...endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a hook nose, handsome after its kind, but too high between the eyes by probably just as much as his eyes were too near to one another.
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