present是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 出席的， 现在的n. 现在， 礼物v. 赠送， 提出，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desir-able that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.
-- Its gentle touch, though it had been light and instantaneous, appeared still present to the old man's sense of feeling.
-- The Ghost of Christmas Present rose.
-- Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house.
-- My opinion is, that it was a done thing between him and Scrooge's nephew; and that the Ghost of Christ-mas Present knew it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- It is in the present mode.
-- 'Miss Manette, if the prisoner does not perfectly under-stand that you give the evidence which it is your duty to give which you must give and which you cannot escape from giving with great unwillingness, he is the only per-son present in that condition.
-- She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a Present beyond his misery: and the sound of her voice, the light of her face, the touch of her hand, had a strong beneficial influ-ence with him almost always.
-- 'Well!you have been present all day, and you ought to know.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They took hold of the worthy man; who, hearing on every side that he was intoxicated, did not in the least doubt the truth of this certainly not very polite assertion; but on the contrary, implored the ladies and gentlemen present to pro-cure him a hackney-coach: they, however, imagined he was talking Russian.
-- He now fluttered down into the grass, turned his head gracefully on every side, and with his bill pecked the pliant blades of grass, which, in comparison to his present size, seemed as majestic as the palm-branches of northern Africa.
-- But it was only for a moment; then they shouted that the whole place re-echoed with their rejoicing; they danced round the Tree, and one present after the other was pulled off.
-- I will make you a present of my red shoes, if you will give him back to me.'
-- He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted that word was 'eternity"; and the Snow Queen had said, 'If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
-- And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
-- Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the district council-- not in the form of bribes, but in the form of unearned salary," he said, as hotly as though someone of those present had opposed his opinion.
-- "No; not over exactly, but the future is yours, and the present is mine, and the present--well, it's not all that it might be."
-- "Yes, but the spiritualists say we don't know at present what this force is, but there is a force, and these are the conditions in which it acts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the present instance things had not gone so smoothly.
-- Should Mr. Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a long time.
-- "In a few hours it will be daylight, and ""The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment."
-- The complainants would not dare present themselves with such a charge.
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