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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived af-terwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good fam-ily in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in Eng-land, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- I began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done, and how justly I was overtaken by the judgment of Heaven for my wicked leaving my father's house, and abandoning my duty.
-- All the good counsels of my parents, my father's tears and my mother's entreaties, came now fresh into my mind; and my conscience, which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness to which it has since, reproached me with the contempt of advice, and the breach of my duty to God and my father.
-- Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction.
-- CHAPTER 2Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the condition of visitors.
-- A present of fifty pounds, now and then, will prevent their ever being distressed for money, and will, I think, be amply discharging my promise to my father."
-- When your father and mother moved to Norland, though the furniture of Stanhill was sold, all the china, plate, and linen was saved, and is now left to your mother.
-- Mrs. Dashwood now took pains to get acquainted with him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up.
-- She gazed at the green landscape, now passing in swift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impression with vague conjectures of what Chicago might be.
-- She now turned and looked upon him in full, the instincts of self-protection and coquetry mingling confusedly in her brain.
-- This line the individual at her elbow now marked for Carrie.
-- Her own plain blue dress, with its black cotton tape trimmings, now seemed to her shabby.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.
-- Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
-- Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place.
-- We played robber now and then about a month, and then I resigned.
-- I looked over my shoulder every now and then, but I didn't see no-body.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now it's too late!"
-- In the meantime that rascal, Pinocchio, free now from the clutches of the Carabineer, was running wildly across fields and meadows, taking one short cut after another toward home.
-- It thundered, and bright flashes of lightning now and again shot across the sky, turning it into a sea of fire.
-- And my hunger grew, and I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out of the window and threw water on me, and I came home and put my feet on the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep and now my feet are gone but my hunger isn't!Oh!--Oh!--Oh!"
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