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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort of an animal he thought it was.
-- After an instant, Lord Edward said again, "To my own mind the hypothesis is so plausible, that I have no doubt whatever the event occurred on the coast of Patagonia, but still I will have inquiries made in Glasgow, as to the destination of the BRITANNIA, and we shall know if it is possible she could have been wrecked on those shores."
-- A telegram next day gave hope of his speedy return, but in the evening a letter apprised her of the difficulties his proposition had met with, and the morning after brought another, in which he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Admiralty.
-- It would not in the least alter the actual state of the case; so not a word was said, and after answering all Miss Grant's questions, Lady Helena began to interrogate in her turn, asking her about her past life and her present circumstances.
-- Harry's voyages were prosperous from the first, and a few years after Robert was born, he found himself possessed of a considerable fortune.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.'
-- 'Come, come, we are not so far wrong, after all,' said Hol- mes.
-- I followed the footsteps down the Yew Alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have wait-ed, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
-- 'Excellent!This is a colleague, Watson, after our ownheart.
-- After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are pleased to reproach me, your excellency, but what if I prove that I am right after all?
-- I was a month or two with Lihachof after his father died, your excellency, and while he was knocking about he's in the debtor's prison now I was with him, and he couldn't do a thing without Lebedeff; and I got to know Nastasia Philipovna and several people at that time.'
-- 'Look here now,' I said, when we came out, 'none of your interference here after this-do you understand?'
-- I thought I might as well jump into the Neva at once without going home first; but it struck me that I wouldn't, after all, and I went home feeling like one of the damned.'
-- So after awhile she brought the box and flew out at him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not how to look before and after that the Achae-ans may fight by their ships in safety.'
-- As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixing-bowl with wine and water and hand-ed it round, after giving every man his drink-offering.
-- Now after twelve days the immortal gods came back in a body to Olympus, and Jove led the way.
-- Then surely the Argives would have returned after afashion that was not fated.
-- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was certainly rude of him, after telling him all she had done.
-- She did not "make so bold as to say," however, after all.
-- After Mrs. Hall had left the room, he remained standing in front of the fire, glaring, so Mr. Henfrey puts it, at the clock-mending.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio's legs were so stiff that he could not move them, and Geppetto held his hand and showed him how to put out one foot after the other.
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