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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Already round this pale-faced, handsome, black-bearded man there was gathering an atmosphere of mystery and of gloom.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a little tongue of fire now began to lick the paper from below, and soon, gathering courage, mounted the sides of the parcel, and crept around it.
-- Adelaida had long since detected in Aglaya's features the gathering signs of an approaching storm of laughter, which she restrained with amazing self-control.
-- Moreover, it was only a question of a small gathering of a few intimate friends.
-- Keller and Burdovsky looked wonderfully correct in their dresscoats and white kid gloves, although Keller caused the bridegroom some alarm by his undisguisedly hostile glanc-es at the gathering crowd of sight-seers outside.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my father's stables there are eleven excel-lent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
-- With these words he took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree, and they marked the place by pulling up reeds and gathering boughs of tamarisk that they might not miss it as they came back through the' flying hours of dark-ness.
-- Then Achil-les gave a loud cry and his mother heard him as she was sitting in the depths of the sea by the old man her father, whereon she screamed, and all the goddesses daughters of Nereus that dwelt at the bottom of the sea, came gathering round her.
-- As he spoke he drew the keen blade that hung so great and strong by his side, and gathering himself together be sprang on Achilles like a soaring eagle which swoops down from the clouds on to some lamb or timid hare even so did Hector brandish his sword and spring upon Achilles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XIII MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES HIS RESIGNATION When the dusk was gathering and Iping was just beginning to peep timorously forth again upon the shattered wreckage of its Bank Holiday, a short, thick-set man in a shabby silk hat was marching painfully through the twilight behind the beechwoods on the road to Bramblehurst.
-- The unhappy-looking figure in the obsolete silk hat passed up the street of the little village with his burdens, and vanished into the gathering darkness beyond the lights of the windows.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You will see a gathering of the Beast People,' said Mont-gomery.
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：
-- 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.
-- Glancing his eyes around, with a vain effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if, cut off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might render their blows more fatally certain.
-- continued Hawkeye; 'they are gathering for the rush, or they would keep their dingy backs below the logs.
-- 'Let them burn their powder,' said the deliberate scout, while bullet after bullet whizzed by the place where he se-curely lay; 'there will be a fine gathering of lead when it is over, and I fancy the imps will tire of the sport afore these old stones cry out for mercy!Uncas, boy, you waste the ker-nels by overcharging; and a kicking rifle never carries a true bullet.
-- The scout shook his head as he rejoined: 'The Lord never intended that the man should place all his endeavors in his throat, to the neglect of other and better gifts!But he has fallen into the hands of some silly woman, when he should have been gathering his education under a blue sky, among the beauties of the forest.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tomb-stones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his supe-rior elegance and address.
-- 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.
-- In cold weather he was distin-guished by a fur cap, surmounted with a flaunting fox's tail; and when the folks at a country gathering descried this well-known crest at a distance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a squall.
-- Brom Bones, however, was the hero of the scene, hav-ing come to the gathering on his favorite steed Daredevil, a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief, and which no one but himself could manage.
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：
-- The Frenchman considered the position, then broke suddenly into jovial expletives, and with an impatient gesture, gathering up the pieces, flung them into their box.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He mingled with a crowd of men--a crowd which had been, and was still, gathering by degrees.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gathering his wits together, he said: "And the Donkey I threw into the sea?"
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