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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was then three hundred miles from Cape Clear, and, after three days' delay, which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company.
-- It was clear, then, that the instrument producing the perforation was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing an iron plate/8 inches thick, had withdrawn itself by a backward motion.
-- After six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection.
-- Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster and purge it from the world.
-- I was well satisfied with my cabin, which was in the after part, opening upon the gunroom.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Women, their arms folded over their coarse aprons, standing gossiping at the end of their block, stared after the Brangwen sisters with that long, unwearying stare of aborigines; children called out names.
-- It would be queer to meet again down here in the Midlands, where their social standing was so diverse, after they had known each other on terms of equality in the houses of sundry acquaintances in town.
-- Like a hound the young man was after her, leaping the steps and swinging past her father, his supple haunches working like those of a hound that bears down on the quarry.
-- "Ay, after her!"
-- "Too much bloody soul and talk altogether "He withdrew in a dudgeon, Gerald staring after him with angry eyes, that grew gradually calm and amiable as the stoutly-built form of the other man passed into the distance.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir,' he interrupted, wincing.
-- One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof.
-- Such an individual seated in his arm chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at th e right time after dinner.
-- Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked up gown, bare arms, and fire flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.
-- he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure, after this inhospitable treatment.
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：
-- And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would.
-- A little provoked, she drew back, and after looking everywhere for the queen (whom she spied out at last, a long way off), she thought she would try the plan, this time, of walking in the opposite direction.
-- 'I think I'll go down the other way,' she said after a pause: 'and perhaps I may visit the elephants later on.
-- Then a very gentle voice in the distance said, 'She must be labelled "Lass, with care," you know 'And after that other voices went on ('What a number of people there are in the carriage!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us, for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up the heart to insist on having more.
-- I have seen him wringing his hands after such a rebuff, and I am sure the annoyance and the terror he lived in must have greatly hastened his early and unhappy death.
-- 2 Black Dog Appears and DisappearsT was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs.
-- He wandered a little longer, his voice growing weaker; but soon after I had given him his medicine, which he took like a child, with the remark, "If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he fell at last into a heavy, swoon-like sleep, in which I left him.
-- On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for him, and the doctor was suddenly taken up with a case many miles away and was never near the house after my father's death.
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