gathering是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 集会， 聚会， 聚集，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unbelieving Philosophers who were remodelling the world with words, and making card-towers of Babel to scale the skies with, talked with Unbelieving Chemists who had an eye on the transmuta-tion of metals, at this wonderful gathering accumulated by Monseigneur.
-- Madame enforced the conclusion of this piece of advice by striking her little counter with her chain of money as if she knocked its brains out, and then gathering the heavy handkerchief under her arm in a serene manner, and ob-serving that it was time to go to bed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Varenka, gathering up her parasol and her bag.
-- "Go along, make haste," he added smiling, and gathering up his books, he prepared to go too.
-- She walked on a few steps in silence, gathering up her courage; then suddenly she stopped.
-- The valet, conscious of his own innocence, would have defended himself, but glancing at his master, he saw from his face that the only thing to do was to be silent, and hurriedly threading his way in and out, dropped down on the carpet and began gathering up the whole and broken glasses and bottles.
-- On the stage the singer, bowing and smiling, with bare shoulders flashing with diamonds, was, with the help of the tenor who had given her his arm, gathering up the bouquets that were flying awkwardly over the footlights.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thereafter Martin had to purchase drugs from St. Paul, over-crowd his tiny laboratory, and prepare his own pills and ointments, looking in a homesick way at the rarely used test-tubes and the dust gathering on the bell glass of his microscope, while Pete Yeska joined with the Norbloms in Whispering, "This new doc here ain't any good.
-- Of all these forces Martin was more or less aware, and behind them he fancied that doubtful business men, sellers of impure ice- cream and milk, owners of unsanitary shops and dirty tenements, men who had always hated Pickerbaugh but who had feared to attack him because of his popularity, were gathering to destroy the entire Department of Public Health.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bending over the water, he gazed mechanically at the last pink flush of the sunset, at the row of houses growing dark in the gathering twilight, at one distant attic window on the left bank, flash-ing as though on fire in the last rays of the setting sun, at the darkening water of the canal, and the water seemed to catch his attention.
-- All at once at the end of the street, two hundred yards away, in the gathering dusk he saw a crowd and heard talk and shouts.
-- Half-way upstairs he could hear the noise and ani-mated conversation of a big gathering of people.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Steerforth was pretty sure tobe there expecting me, and we went on together through the frostyair and gathering fog towards the twinkling lights of the town.
-- Then Martha arose, and gathering her shawl about her, coveringher face with it, and weeping aloud, went slowly to the door.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were pleasant feelings, and she walked about and in-dulged them till it was necessary to do as the others did, and collect round the strawberry-beds. The whole party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was ex-pected every moment from Richmond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very ready to lead the way in gathering, ac-cepting, or talking strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or spoken of. 'The best fruit in Eng-land every body's favourite always wholesome. These the finest beds and finest sorts. Delightful to gather for one's self the only way of really enjoying them. Morning decidedly the best time never tired every sort good hautboy infinitely superior no comparison the others hardly eatable hautboys very scarce Chili preferred white wood finest flavour of all price of strawberries inLondon abundance about Bristol Maple Grove cul-tivation beds when to be renewed gardeners thinking exactly different no general rule gardeners never to be put out of their way delicious fruit only too rich to be eaten much of inferior to cherries currants more re-freshing only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping glaring sun tired to death could bear it no longer must go and sit in the shade.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the background, mellowed by tawny shade, were the three women, Maryann Money, and Temperance and Soberness Miller, gathering up the fleeces and twisting ropes of wool with a wimble for tying them round.
-- This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains of an ancient earthwork, consisting of a huge rampart and entrenchment of an oval form encircling the top of the hill, though somewhat broken down here and there.
-- So the men entered the hall, which was the room selected and arranged for the gathering because of its size.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a gathering contained, as might have been expected, the elements out of which a complete society might be constructed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horses, feeling slackreins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass, and the patient hounds lay down again in the soft reddust and looked up longingly at the chimney swallows circling in the gathering dusk.
-- He had shoved the responsibility onto Ellen, and her disappointment at missing the barbecueand the gathering of her friends did not enter his mind; for it was a fine spring day and his fields were beautiful and thebirds were singing and he felt too young and frolicsome to think of anyone else.
-- The idea of appearing publicly at a social gathering while in mourning was sounheard of she was bewildered.
-- The gathering quieted again as the doctor raised his voice, at first in thanks to the ladies who had so willinglygiven their jewelry.
-- When she had shoved and pushed her way through the mob for a block beyond Five Points the crowd thinned alittle and, gathering up her skirts, she began to run again.
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