preceding是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 在前的, 在先的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The preceding rela-tive positions of himself and Lucie were reversed, yet only as the liveliest gratitude and affection could reverse them, for he could have had no pride but in rendering some ser-vice to her who had rendered so much to him.
-- Un-encumbered with luggage, they would soon overtake the coach, and, passing it and preceding it on the road, would order its horses in advance, and greatly facilitate its prog-ress during the precious hours of the night, when delay was the most to be dreaded.
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：
-- He asserted that the preceding night had been the worst that ever the malice of fate had allotted him; he would not for two silver marks again go through what he had endured while moon-stricken; but now, however, it was over.
-- Among the audience was the young man of the hospital, who seemed to have forgotten his adventure of the preceding night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Five minutes later there came in a friend of Kitty's, married the preceding winter, Countess Nordston.
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：
-- 'I do,' Raskolnikov answered firmly; as he said these words and during the whole preceding tirade he kept his eyes on one spot on the carpet.
-- But at the very mo-ment, he was struck by the strangeness of his own frankness, and the eagerness with which he had made this explanation, though he had kept up all the preceding conversation with gloomy repulsion, obviously with a motive, from necessity.
-- 'Yes, indeed, and doubtless not without some design, having in view the rapidity of his departure, and all the cir-cumstances preceding it.'
-- He recalled all the inward conflict of the preceding months.
-- At last the news came (Dounia had indeed noticed signs of alarm and uneasiness in the preceding letters) that he held aloof from everyone, that his fellow prisoners did not like him, that he kept silent for days at a time and was be-coming very pale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the day preceding its resumption, theDoctor gave me with his own hands a folded note, not sealed.
-- When I thought ofthe airy dreams of youth that are incapable of realisation, I thought 644of the better state preceding manhood that I had outgrown.
-- One evening, at this hour, he told me that he had found Marthawaiting near his lodging on the preceding night when he came out,and that she had asked him not to leave London on any account,until he should have seen her again.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the twelvemonth preceding this time he had been enabled by sustained efforts of industry and chronic good spirits to lease the small sheep-farm of which Norcombe Hill was a portion, and stock it with two hundred sheep.
-- His head began to ache in an unwonted manner, and, fancying himself weary by reason of the broken rests of the preceding nights, Oak decided to get up, open the slide, and then allow himself to fall asleep.
-- Boldwood looked, as he had a hundred times the preceding day, at the insistent red seal: "Marry me," he said aloud.
-- The union was not only an unutterable grief to him: it amazed him, notwithstanding that he had passed the preceding week in a suspicion that such might be the issue of Troy's meeting her away from home.
-- At this time the July preceding the September in which we find at Greenhill Fair he fell in with a travelling circus which was performing in the outskirts of a northern town.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are ban-ished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
-- I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.
-- I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
-- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making 82 Frankensteinit appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
-- The horrible scene of the preceding day was forever acting before my eyes; the 163females were flying and the enraged Felix tearing me from his father's feet.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But men who expected to die within a week or a month could not wait a year before they begged to call a girl byher first name, with "Miss," of course, preceding it.
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