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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stillness that greeted her seemed even more sinister this morning than on any of the mornings of the queerquiet week preceding it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, facing round, after doggedly preceding me a few steps towards the house.
-- That matter of Herbert's was still progressing, and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding chapter.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If elsewhere she produces grand artistic effects by piling up huge masses without order or connection--if elsewhere we see truncated cones, imperfect pyramids, with an odd succession of lines; here, as if wishing to give a lesson in regularity, and preceding the architects of the early ages, she has erected a severe order of architecture, which neither the splendors of Babylon nor the marvels of Greece ever surpassed.
-- We are to the southeast, two hundred and fifty miles from the base of Sneffels, and, according to my preceding notes, I think we have gone sixteen leagues in a downward direction."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even Flora's commas seemed to have fled on this occasion; she was so much more disjointed and voluble than in the preceding interview.
-- On the preceding occasion, one or two of the Bleeding Heart Yarders had obsequiously picked it up and handed it to its owner; but Mr Pancks had now so far impressed his audience, that the Patriarch had to turn and stoop for it himself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year, say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true.
-- Tumbled into the water, it accordingly is in such cases; the spare coils of box line (mentioned in a preceding chapter) making this feat, in most instances, prudently practicable.
-- Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter.
-- Likewise, by way of preliminary, I desire to remind the reader, that while in the earlier geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now almost completely extinct; the subsequent relics discovered in what are called the Tertiary formations seem the connecting, or at any rate intercepted links, between the antichronical creatures, and those whose remote posterity are said to have entered the Ark; all the Fossil Whales hitherto discovered belong to the Tertiary period, which is the last preceding the superficial formations.
-- the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents preceding it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Closely following Mr. Losberne, the two officers ascended to Oliver's bedroom; Mr. Giles preceding the party, with a lighted candle.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much had been done and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday; several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle, a private had been flogged, and it had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster was going to be married.
-- Her uncle and aunt were all amazement; and the embarrassment of her manner as she spoke, joined to the circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a new idea on the business.
-- There was not much in the question, nor in the preceding remark; but there was a look and a manner which gave them meaning.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
-- Willoughby had spent the preceding evening with them, and Margaret, by being left some time in the parlour with only him and Marianne, had had opportunity for observations, which, with a most important face, she communicated to her eldest sister, when they were next by themselves.
-- It was evident that he was unhappy; she wished it were equally evident that he still distinguished her by the same affection which once she had felt no doubt of inspiring; but hitherto the continuance of his preference seemed very uncertain; and the reservedness of his manner towards her contradicted one moment what a more animated look had intimated the preceding one.
-- Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit.
-- Some vague report had reached her before of my attachment to some young lady in Devonshire, and what had passed within her observation the preceding evening had marked who the young lady was, and made her more jealous than ever.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fixed his eyes on the stage, although Carrie was not there, a short bit of melodramatic comedy preceding her entrance.
-- Now, as on each preceding day, letters were handed her by the doorman at the Casino.
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