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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every woman was abroad, every man was out, shopping with his wife, or gathering with his pals.
-- "Yes, I should love it," she replied, gathering herself together.
-- Ursula thought a moment, gathering her straying wits together.
-- All round, shadow was gathering from the trees.
-- They were gathering a heart again, they were coming once more into being.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child left her gathering the flowers that grew upon the grave, and thoughtfully retraced her steps.
-- 'You remember the garden, Harry,' whispered the schoolmaster, anxious to rouse him, for a dulness seemed gathering upon the child, 'and how pleasant it used to be in the evening time?
-- The lady of the caravan was in the act of gathering her tea equipage together preparatory to clearing the table, but noting the child's anxious manner she hesitated and stopped.
-- The old man replied by shaking the little purse in his eager hand, and then throwing it down upon the table, and gathering up the cards as a miser would clutch at gold.
-- he said, gathering up the money in his hand and letting it drop back into the box, between his fingers, like water.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skovorodnikoff, who was sitting opposite Wolf, continually gathering with his thick fingers his beard and mustache into his mouth, as soon as B脙漏 was through with his argument, stopped chewing his beard, and, in a loud, rasping voice, said that although the president of the stock company was a villain, he should favor a reversal if there were legal grounds to sustain it, but as there were none, he joined in the opinion of Ivan Semenovitch (B脙漏), and he invariably rejoiced at this shot aimed at Wolf.
-- To this class belonged all those who carried on a secret trade in wine, or were bringing in contraband goods, or were picking herbs, or gathering wood, in private or government forests.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world mastered the whole secret of these delicious people.
-- I lit another piece of camphor, and went on gathering my bonfire.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bare-headed as we were, we ran out at once in the gathering evening and the frosty fog.
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