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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Passepartout persisted in chaffing him by asking him if he made much by his present occupation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Himself, he had worked for years on the synthesis of antibodies; he was at present in a blind alley, and at Mohalis there was no one who was interested, no one to stir him, but he was having an agreeable time massacring the opsonin theory, and that cheered him.
-- He had not merely to get through each minute as it came; the whole grim thirty minutes were present at the same time.
-- While he was practicing the tactful observation he was going to present two minutes from now, he could still hear the clumsy thing he had said two minutes before.
-- Were they, in their present condition of nincompoopery, worth any sort of attention?
-- Look at these great strapping girls, Arrowsmith!Never been sick a day in their lives--practically--and though Mother does have her sick- headaches, that's to be attributed to the early neglect of her diet, because while her father, the old deacon--and a fine upstanding gentleman of the old school he was, too, if there ever was one, and a friend of Nathaniel Mugford, to whom more than any other we owe not only the foundation of Mugford College but also the tradition of integrity and industry which have produced our present prosperity--BUT he had no knowledge of diet or sanitation, and I've always thought--" The daughters were introduced as Orchid, Verbena, Daisy, Jonquil, Hibisca, Narcissa, and the twins, Arbuta and Gladiola.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not her shoes that would be more or less in the order of things, but her stock-ings, her stockings I have sold for drink!Her mohair shawl I sold for drink, a present to her long ago, her own property, not mine; and we live in a cold room and she caught cold this winter and has begun coughing and spitting blood too.
-- It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb ofdisorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present state of mind this was positively agreeable.
-- And in spite of Pyotr Petrovitch's evasiveness, very natural at present (since he does not know you), Dounia is firmly persuaded that she will gain everything by her good influence over her future husband; this she is reckoning upon.
-- Long, long ago his present anguish had its first beginnings; it had waxed and gathered strength, it had matured and concentrated, un-til it had taken the form of a fearful, frenzied and fantastic question, which tortured his heart and mind, clamouring insistently for an answer.
-- For the present he, too, had been obliged to give up the university, but it was only for a time, and he was working with all his might to save enough to return to his studies again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now onlytake the reader into one confidence more.
-- But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of thisproperty; and if any- body else should be in the present enjoymentof it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.
-- I was present myself, and I remember to havefelt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself beingdisposed of in that way.
-- To this day, 56when I look upon the fat black letters in the primer, the puzzlingnovelty of their shapes, and the easy good-nature of O and Q andS, seem to present themselves again before me as they used to do.
-- This is invented for me, and deliveredto me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into acheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucestercheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment'- at which Isee Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.
-- As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from Mrs. God-dard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.
-- Emma allowed her father to talk but supplied her visi-tors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.
-- 'I either depend more upon Emma's good sense than you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament the acquaintance.
-- I do not rec-ommend matrimony at present to Emma, though I mean no slight to the state, I assure you.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- Gabriel's energies, patience, and industry had been so severely taxed during the years of his life between eighteen and eight-and-twenty, to reach his present stage of progress that no more seemed to be left in him.
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