listener是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 听者， 听众之一，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first there was a great shaking of hands and shuffling of feet, succeeded by the presentation of the nosegay; for a voice, supposed by the listener to be that of Mr Witherden the Notary, was heard to exclaim a great many times, 'oh, delicious!'
-- Then growing garrulous upon a theme which was new to one listener though it were but a child, she told her how she had wept and moaned and prayed to die herself, when this happened; and how when she first came to that place, a young creature strong in love and grief, she had hoped that her heart was breaking as it seemed to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly nature of her wrath the listener could feel how white she was, without seeing her and both highly commended it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future, we will tell you all about our most excellent selves.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His most usual and natural listener was his brother.
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：
-- When the young man mentioned the artifice he supposed the Indian to have prac-tised on his own nation, the countenance of the listener was veiled in an expression of cautious gravity.
-- Even these occasional threat- ening sounds ceased to be heard in that dull hour which precedes the day, at which period a listener might have sought in vain any evidence of the presence of those armed powers that then slumbered on the shores of the 'holy lake.'
-- Duncan complied; and the Mohican, who had been an attentive listener to the discourse, readily undertook the office.
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：
-- Strickland was not a conversationalist, and he had no gift for putting what he had to say in the striking phrase that the listener remembers.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under a bright mid-day sun, at almost Midsummer, Mr. Woodhouse was safely conveyed in his carriage, with one window down, to partake of this al-fresco party; and in one of the most comfortable rooms in the Abbey, espe-cially prepared for him by a fire all the morning, he was happily placed, quite at his ease, ready to talk with pleasure of what had been achieved, and advise every body to come and sit down, and not to heat themselves. Mrs. Weston, who seemed to have walked there on purpose to be tired, and sit all the time with him, remained, when all the oth-ers were invited or persuaded out, his patient listener and sympathiser.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The listener started, guiltily, too; for she thought there was another listener among the trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally, a vocal strain more sonorous than the generality informed the listener that some boastful bass was in blue water, or in the hunting field, or with the reindeer, or on the mountain, or among the heather; but the Marshal of the Marshalsea knew better, and had got him hard and fast.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down the page went the green guide, and presently, forgetting her listener in the beauty of the sad scene, Meg read as if alone, giving a little touch of tragedy to the words of the unhappy queen.
-- There, oh there, might I with thee, O, my beloved, go and one listener was so thrilled by the tender invitation that she longed to say she did know the land, and would joy-fully depart thither whenever he liked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though nothing of the conversation was distinguishable beyond a few disjointed words here and there, a listener might easily have perceived that Fagin appeared to be defending himself against some remarks of the stranger; and that the latter was in a state of considerable irritation.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With such rivals for the notice of the fair as Mr. Wickham and the officers, Mr. Collins seemed to sink into insignifi-cance; to the young ladies he certainly was nothing; but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Phillips, and was by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with cof-fee and muffin.
-- She had got rid of two of the secrets which had weighed on her for a fortnight, and was certain of a will-ing listener in Jane, whenever she might wish to talk again of either.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She managed the recital, as she hoped, with address; prepared her anxious listener with caution; related simply and honestly the chief points on which Willoughby grounded his apology; did justice to his repentance, and softened only his protestations of present regard.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice a curious listener might have heard him at the coals, and for the space of five minutes he was audible pacing the room.
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