now是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 现在， 如今， 目前； 当时， 于是， 然后，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The inside of the hut, as it now presented itself, was cosy and alluring, and the scarlet handful of fire in addition to the candle, reflecting its own genial colour upon whatever it could reach, flung associations of enjoyment even over utensils and tools.
-- "There, now we'll go home," said the elder of the two, resting her knuckles upon her hips, and looking at their goings-on as a whole.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
-- The paneled walls of that apartment were once painted some color, now a matter of conjecture, for the surface is incrusted with accumulated layers of grimy deposit, which cover it with fantastic outlines.
-- When he first came there he had taken the rooms now occupied by Mme.
-- Towards the end of the third year Father Goriot reduced his expenses still further; he went up to the third story, and now paid forty-five francs a month.
-- It was almost like a patent of nobility to be admitted to those gilded salons; he had appeared in the most exclusive circle in Paris, and now all doors were open for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil.
-- Now I am twenty-eight and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen.
-- Those are as fixed as fate, and my voyage is only now delayed until the weather shall permit my embarkation.
-- This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archan-gel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
-- He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so at-tractive and amiable.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's kind ofset on getting an education, and you two have pulled him out of the University of Virginia and Alabama and SouthCarolina and now Georgia.
-- Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind tin lulls across the Flint River, the warmth of the April daywas ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
-- But now to their amazement she had become a grown-upyoung lady and quite the most charming one in all the world.
-- Now they were both in love with her, and India Wilkes and Letty Munroe, from Lovejoy, whom Brent had beenhalf-heartedly courting, were far in the back of their minds.
-- Her eyes followed the winding road, blood-red now after the morning rain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now I was frightened again, and ran home without stopping.
-- In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them up to each other's admiration now and then,--which stimulated us to new exertions.
-- And now it appears they're firing warning of another."
-- Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,--"You're not a deceiving imp?
-- I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, 'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
-- Now this hill was so big that the whole world could not take it away: and when he had worked for seven days, and had done very little, the fox came and said.
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