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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs commerce surrounds it with her surf.
-- Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?
-- But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way he can better answer than any one else.
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original the Tyre of this Carthage; the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once--a parish child--the orphan of a workhouse--the humble, half-starved drudge--to be cuffed and buffeted through the world--despised by all, and pitied by none.
-- 'Now don't you be offended at what I'm a going to say,' observed Mrs. Mann, with captivating sweetness.
-- 'And now about business,' said the beadle, taking out a leathern pocket-book.
-- He finished the gin-and-water, and added, 'Oliver being now too old to remain here, the board have determined to have him back into the house.
-- He wants the stick, now and then: it'll do him good; and his board needn't come very expensive, for he hasn't been overfed since he was born.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.
-- His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her.
-- Their visits to Mrs. Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.
-- I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.'
-- 'Mamma,' cried Lydia, 'my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now came the difficulties of our position.
-- Still, in his captivity, like a lower animal like some impatient ape, or roused bear of the smaller species the prisoner, now left solitary, had jumped upon the ledge, to lose no glimpse of this departure.
-- At last, John Baptist, now able to choose his own spot within the compass of those walls for the exercise of his faculty of going to sleep when he would, lay down upon the bench, with his face turned over on his crossed arms, and slumbered.
-- I have been waking up night after night, and saying, now I have got it, now it has developed itself, now I am in for it, now these fellows are making out their case for their precautions.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.'
-- 'I'm the oldest,' began Meg, but Jo cut in with a decided, 'I'm the man of the family now Papa is away, and I shall provide the slippers, for he told me to take special care of Mother while he was gone.'
-- Now come and hear the letter.'
-- Make it sweet and swift and strong, Spirit, answer now my song!
-- Marmee is willing we should go, now what shall we wear?'
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