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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And in the morning he awoke and the hill was gone; so he went merrily to the king, and told him that now that it was removed he must give him the princess.
-- However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
-- If it were a pig now like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- I hear some of our sea Yahoos find fault with my sea-language, as not proper in many parts, nor now in use.
-- I must freely confess, that since my last return, some corrup-tions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Ya-hoo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such terms, no doubt, substituting the words 'boys and girls,' for 'sir,' Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
-- 'Now girl number twenty,' said Mr. Gradgrind.
-- The third gentleman now stepped forth.
-- He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
-- 'Now I tell you what, Gradgrind!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were truly so wonderful that even now I am bewildered when I think of them.
-- Now Professor Hardwigg, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of man; he is, however, choleric and original.
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- Now most persons in this category supply themselves with information, as peddlers do with goods, for the benefit of others, and lay up stores in order to diffuse them abroad for the benefit of society in general.
-- As I said, my uncle, Professor Hardwigg, was a very learned man; and I now add a most kind relative.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.
-- His father had died, Clifford was now a baronet, Sir Clifford, and Constance was Lady Chatterley.
-- And now they knew it more definitely than ever.
-- Now he had become a first lieutenant in a smart regiment, so he could mock at everything more becomingly in uniform.
-- Now he was heir and responsible for Wragby.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man obeyed his orders, and stood ready to give him a lighted match; for he was now rolling his tobacco into cigarettes by the aid of little squares of paper which had been brought in with it.
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