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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took them to the gardener, and said: 'I present them to your children, they can play with them.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
-- He began with compliments on my liberty; said 'he might pre-tend to some merit in it;' but, however, added, 'that if it had not been for the present situation of things at court, per-haps I might not have obtained it so soon.
-- It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it ac-cording to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
-- I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, 'that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.'
-- When I had for some time entertained their excellencies, to their infinite satisfaction and surprise, I desired they would do me the honour to present my most humble re-spects to the emperor their master, the renown of whose virtues had so justly filled the whole world with admiration, and whose royal person I resolved to attend, before I re-turned to my own country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stone Lodge was situated on a moor within a mile or two of a great town called Coketown in the present faithful guide-book.
-- 'As if, with my head in its present throbbing state, you couldn't go and look at the shells and minerals and things provided for you, instead of circuses!'
-- With my head in its present state, I couldn't remember the mere names of half the facts you have got to attend to.'
-- Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared in short, it was the only clear thing in the case that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable.
-- I haven't always occupied my present station of life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here we took another railway, which in three hours brought us to the capital, Copenhagen, where, scarcely taking time for refreshment, my uncle hurried out to present one of his letters of introduction.
-- If a road does really present itself by which to descend into the dark and subterraneous bowels of Mother Earth, if this thrice unhappy Saknussemm has really told the truth, we shall be most certainly lost in the midst of the labyrinth of subterraneous galleries of the volcano.
-- I stooped on a sudden and picked up an almost perfect shell, which had undoubtedly belonged to some animal very much resembling some of the present day.
-- I seemed, as I stood upon that mysterious shore, as if I were some wandering inhabitant of a distant planet, present for the first time at the spectacle of some terrestrial phenomena belonging to another existence.
-- For the present we must be content with a good and solid raft."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, turning his head away, and looking sideways, downwards, with that strange im-mobility of an old race that is hardly here in our present day.
-- And he roused a certain craving passion in her, with his little boy's nakedness and softness; she had to go on after he had -finished, in the wild tumult and heaving of her loins, while he heroically kept himself up, and present in her, with all his will and self-offering, till she brought about her own crisis, with weird little cries.
-- The men are so good and patient!What can they do, poor chaps!But the women, oh, they do carry on!They go and show off, giving contributions for a wedding present for Princess Mary, and then when they see all the grand things that's been given, they simply rave: who's she, any better than anybody else!
-- The present lay below.
-- 'I do, duckie!If we go on at our present rate then in a hun-dred years' time there won't be ten thousand people in this island: there may not be ten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The word being, according to its Genoese emphasis, a confirmation, a contradiction, an assertion, a denial, a taunt, a compliment, a joke, and fifty other things, became in the present instance, with a significance beyond all power of written expression, our familiar English 'I believe you!'
-- In practice they had come to be considered a little too bad, though in theory they were quite as good as ever; which may be observed to be the case at the present day with other cells that are not at all strong, and with other blind alleys that are stone-blind.
-- The old man always plodding on before, turned round, in his slow, stiff, stooping manner, when they came to the turnkey on duty, as if to present his companion.
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