afterward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 后来， 以后，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared, however, that she had only clapped her hands for joy; for directly afterward she began to laugh, and then to cry; declaring, not in choice Arabic but in familiar English, that she was 'so glad, she didn't know what to do.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old maiden chided them for the cream and for permitting the woman to lie in the cow-shed, and was on the point of departing, but noticing the child, was moved to pity, and afterward consented to stand godmother to the child.
-- She said some rude things to the ladies, of which she afterward repented, and left them.
-- A few days afterward the author sent for her a second time.
-- For three years afterward Nekhludoff did not see Katiousha.
-- When, however, he was reading novels, relating indecent anecdotes or seeing droll vaudevilles in the French theatre, and afterward merrily repeated them, everybody praised and encouraged him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had seen his fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and sunstroke up at a place called Ali Mus-jid, ten years later; and afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul and pile big balks of teak in the timberyards at Moulmein.
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：
-- Through the me-dium of the scout, who served for years afterward as a link between them and civilized life, they learned, in answer to their inquiries, that the 'Gray Head' was speedily gathered to his fathers borne down, as was erroneously believed, by his military misfortunes; and that the 'Open Hand' had conveyed his surviving daughter far into the settlements of the pale faces, where her tears had at last ceased to flow, and had been succeeded by the bright smiles which were better suited to her joyous nature.
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