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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after the stranger had gone to bed, which he did about half-past nine, Mr. Hall went very aggressively into the parlour and looked very hard at his wife's furniture, just to show that the stranger wasn't master there, and scrutinised closely and a little contemptuously a sheet of mathematical computations the stranger had left.
-- In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about lat-itude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months.
-- The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat 'Myrtle,' and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible 'Medusa' case.
-- We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether.
-- After the second day the sea subsided slowly to a glassy calm.
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After that inspection the cubs are free to run where they please, and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the Pack kills one of them.
-- 'He sleeps for a full month after he has once eaten.
-- 'Be careful, Bagheera!He is always a little blind after he has changed his skin, and very quick to strike.'
-- The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.
-- 'I am not sure that they did not pull me into a hundred little bearlings,' said Baloo, gravely shaking one leg after the other.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * Washington, who, after uselessly admonishing the Eu-ropean general of the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the remnants of the British army, on this oc-casion, by his decision and courage.
-- The loyal servants of the British crown had given to one of these forest-fast-nesses the name of William Henry, and to the other that of Fort Edward, calling each after a favorite prince of the reigning family.
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- he said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- 'Yon Indian is a 'runner' of the army; and, after the fash-ion of his people, he may be accounted a hero,' returned the officer.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was often his delight, after his school was dis-missed in the afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes.
-- Ichahod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so tempting a mor-sel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion.
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
-- Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.
-- This has ever since been con-sidered a haunted stream, and fearful are the feelings of the school-boy who has to pass it alone after dark.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed.
-- It is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
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