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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No; at present I have no means what-ever, and no employment either, but I hope to find some.
-- I don't know whether she meant it for a hint that I had come empty-handed, without a present for her birthday, or what,' added Gania, with an unpleasant smile.
-- But as your purse is quite empty at the present moment, you must allow me to press these twenty-five roubles upon your acceptance, as something to begin with.
-- It would be difficult to conceive how different she was physically, at the present time, to the girl of a few years ago.
-- Lastly, he could not help being of opinion that Nastasia must be aware of Gania's love for her, and if he (Totski) mistook not, she had looked with some favour upon it, being often lonely, and rather tired of her present life.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past present and to come, rose to speak.
-- Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you and it shall surely be that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.
-- The day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam's people, when the son of Saturn from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in pun-ishment of their present treachery.
-- When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
-- Henceforth, however, I must be your host in middle Argos, and you mine in Lycia, if I should ever go there; let us avoid one another's spears even during a general engagement; there are many noble Trojans and al-lies whom I can kill, if I overtake them and heaven delivers them into my hand; so again with yourself, there are many Achaeans whose lives you may take if you can; we two, then, will exchange armour, that all present may know of the old ties that subsist between us.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What I want to say at present is this: I need help.
-- "It makes me regular uncomfortable, the bare thought of that chap running about the country!He is at present At Large, and from certain evidence it is supposed that he has taken took, I suppose they mean the road to Port Stowe.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every moment I began to feel more convinced of my present security.
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：
-- The writer remembers to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who spoke both their languages.
-- In passing his gentler companions Heyward uttered a few words of encouragement, and was pleased to find that, though fatigued with the exercise of the day, they appeared to entertain no suspicion that their present em-barrassment was other than the result of accident.
-- In the present instance, the scout uses the word with imme-diate reference to the 'salt,' with which his own party was so fortunate as to be provided.
-- Whenever he alluded to any present (and the subtle Indian neglected none), the dark countenance of the flattered in-dividual gleamed with exultation, nor did he even hesitate to assert the truth of the words, by gestures of applause and confirmation.
-- Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to 'follow,' moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several of the Sleepy Hollow people were present at Van Tassel's, and, as usual, were doling out their wild and won-derful legends.
-- The stories of Brouwer, of Bones, and a whole budget of others were called to mind; and when they had diligently consid-ered them all, and compared them with the symptoms of the present case, they shook their heads, and came to the conclusion chat Ichabod had been carried off by the Gal-loping Hessian.
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：
-- It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is now changed.
-- I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day.
-- I wondered if there was anything I could say that would ease the sense of bitter humiliation which at present tormented Mrs. Strickland.
-- Stroeve had set up a Christmas-tree in his studio, and I suspected that we should both find absurd little presents hanging on its festive branches; but he was shy about seeing Strickland again; it was a little humiliating to forgive so easily insults so outrageous, and he wished me to be present at the reconciliation on which he was determined.
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