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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Youth has turned to gods we of an earlier day knew not, and it is possible to see already the direction in which those who come after us will move.
-- I was introduced to this celebrated person after that one, and the kind words they said about my book made me excessively uncomfortable.
-- I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
-- The atmosphere threw off that chilly dampness which is felt after the passage of a great meteor.
-- Their descent was visibly accelerated, and soon after midday the car hung within 600 feet of the ocean.
-- The ropes which held the car were cut, and the balloon, after its fall, mounted 2,000 feet.
-- But after being suspended for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the gas escaping by the rent which it was impossible to repair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.
-- It was a great point too that Kit himself was flattered by the sensation he created, and after several efforts to preserve his gravity, burst into a loud roar, and so stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes nearly shut, laughing violently.
-- The old man had again relapsed into his former abstraction and took no notice of what passed, but I remarked that when her laugh was over, the child's bright eyes were dimmed with tears, called forth by the fullness of heart with which she welcomed her uncouth favourite after the little anxiety of the night.
-- Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't,' after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.
-- 'Sir,' rejoined the old man after a moment's silence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the midwife was attending a sick woman in the village, infected Katiousha with puerperal fever, and the child, a boy, was taken to a foundling asylum where, she was told, he died immediately after his arrival there.
-- She paid 40 rubles to the midwife for two months' board; 25 rubles it cost her to have the child taken away; 40 rubles the midwife borrowed of her to buy a cow with; the balance was spent on dresses, presents, etc., so that after the confinement she was practically penniless, and was compelled to look for a position.
-- The latter resented it, and the result was a scrimmage, after which she was driven out of the house, without being paid the wages due her.
-- A week after she had entered upon her duties, the oldest son neglected his studies and made life miserable for Maslova.
-- After a night's orgies there would come a deep slumber till three or four o'clock in the afternoon; then the weary rising from a dirty couch; seltzer-water to remove the effect of excessive drinking, coffee.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, I think I see it now," he said after some time, brightening in a quite transitory manner.
-- "Scientific people," proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, "know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.
-- After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration.
-- "Our Special Correspondent in the Day after Tomorrow reports," the Journalist was saying or rather shouting when the Time Traveller came back.
-- After a time we ceased to do that, and looked only at the Time Traveller's face.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
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