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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VI THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MAD Now it happened that in the early hours of Whit Monday, before Millie was hunted out for the day, Mr. Hall and Mrs. Hall both rose and went noiselessly down into the cellar.
-- Now and then he would stride violently up and down, and twice came an outburst of curses, a tearing of paper, and a violent smashing of bottles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (I was distracted now by the yelping of a number of dogs.)
-- 'Even now the mutton is boiling.'
-- I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet if the contradiction is credible I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.
-- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the miz-zen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room.
-- Except for an occasional sound in the yellow-lit forecastle and a movement of the animals now and then, the night was very still.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli's Brothers Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we.
-- Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry with him, and he has come here to make our villagers angry.
-- 'I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time,' said Father Wolf.
-- The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him care-fully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
-- Now to Baloo's word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man's cub according to the Law.
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：
-- Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now com-poses the United States.
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- All doubts as to the intention of Webb now vanished, and an hour or two of hurried footsteps and anxious faces succeed-ed.
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
-- Although in a state of perfect repose, and apparent-ly disregarding, with characteristic stoicism, the excitement and bustle around him, there was a sullen fierceness min-gled with the quiet of the savage, that was likely to arrest the attention of much more experienced eyes than those which now scanned him, in unconcealed amazement.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
-- Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, from whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air.
-- All was now bustle and hubbub in the late quiet school-room.
-- The scholars were hurried through their lessons without stopping at trifles; those who were nimble skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed or help them over a tall word.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness.
-- For a long time no critic has enjoyed in France a more incontestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly established on the lines which he laid down.
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