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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Not a particle of evidence, Pip," said Mr. Jaggers, shaking his head and gathering up his skirts.
-- So I changed my excuse into an acceptance,--the few words I had uttered, serving for the beginning of either,--and we went along Cheapside and slanted off to Little Britain, while the lights were springing up brilliantly in the shop windows, and the street lamp-lighters, scarcely finding ground enough to plant their ladders on in the midst of the afternoon's bustle, were skipping up and down and running in and out, opening more red eyes in the gathering fog than my rushlight tower at the Hummums had opened white eyes in the ghostly wall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pretty love that!Coming out with every word about our having gone to that place, when you saw the net was gathering round me.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, gathering the thin ba-tiste nightdress and pulling it over her head.
-- But she came slower, gathering forget-me-nots and campion and bluebells, running a few steps and watching him flee-ing away from her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Dorrit had finished a long day's work in Mrs Clennam's room, and was neatly gathering up her shreds and odds and ends before going home.
-- He thought of the darkly threatening place that went by the name of Home in his remembrance, and of the gathering shadows which made it yet more darkly threatening than of old.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down they went, feeling a trifle timid, for they seldom went to parties, and informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them.
-- Her hair she had the sense to let alone, after gathering up the thick waves and curls into a Hebe-like knot at the back of her head.
-- It so happened that she could not have done a better thing, for Laurie came in so quietly she did not hear him, and as she stood at the distant window, with her head half turned and one hand gathering up her dress, the slender, white figure against the red curtains was as effective as a well-placed statue.
-- 'Try lower down, and pick those that have no thorns,' said Amy, gathering three of the tiny cream-colored ones that starred the wall behind her.
-- I look in with loving eyes, For folded here, with well-known care, A goodly gathering lies, The record of a peaceful life Gifts to gentle child and girl, A bridal gown, lines to a wife, A tiny shoe, a baby curl.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.
-- As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.
-- No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed f脜聯tal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dodger made no reply; but putting his hat on again, and gathering the skirts of his long-tailed coat under his arm, thrust his tongue into his cheek, slapped the bridge of his nose some half-dozen times in a familiar but expressive manner, and turning on his heel, slunk down the court.
-- After the exchange of a few more compliments, they bade the company good-night, and went out; the girl gathering up the pots and glasses as they did so, and lounging out to the door, with her hands full, to see the party start.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out: 'Dear madam, do not go.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was thus gathering strength, my thoughts ran exceedingly upon this Scripture, 'I will deliver thee"; and the impossi-bility of my deliverance lay much upon my mind, in bar of my ever expecting it; but as I was discouraging myself with such thoughts, it occurred to my mind that I pored so much upon my deliverance from the main affliction, that I disre-garded the deliverance I had received, and I was as it were made to ask myself such questions as these - viz.
-- From the 4th of July to the 14th I was chiefly employed in walking about with my gun in my hand, a little and a little at a time, as a man that was gathering up his strength after a fit of sickness; for it is hardly to be imagined how low I was, and to what weakness I was reduced.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," continued Elinor, gathering more resolution, as some of the worst was over, "Colonel Brandon means it as a testimony of his concern for what has lately passed for the cruel situation in which the unjustifiable conduct of your family has placed you a concern which I am sure Marianne, myself, and all your friends, must share; and likewise as a proof of his high esteem for your general character, and his particular approbation of your behaviour on the present occasion."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no gathering or lounging place.
-- Friends were not long in gathering about.
-- When he neared Broadway, he noticed the captain's gathering of wanderers, but thinking it to be the result of a street preacher or some patent medicine fakir, was about to pass on.
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