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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude.
-- It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is now changed.
-- Then it was a distinction to be under forty, but now to be more than twenty-five is absurd.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They now resorted to the only remaining expedient.
-- Pencroft did the same on his side, his hands in his pockets, yawning now and then like a man who did not know how to kill the time, but really dreading, like his friend, either the escape or destruction of the balloon.
-- Five days had passed when a partial clearing allowed them to see the wide extending ocean beneath their feet, now lashed into the maddest fury by the gale.
-- The wind had now fallen almost to a calm, and the noise of the sea began also to subside.
-- Opposite the islet, the beach consisted first of sand, covered with black stones, which were now appearing little by little above the retreating tide.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I observed that every now and then she stole a curious look at my face, as if to make quite sure that I was not deceiving her, and that these glances (very sharp and keen they were too) seemed to increase her confidence at every repetition.
-- He stopped short at the door on seeing a stranger, twirled in his hand a perfectly round old hat without any vestige of a brim, and resting himself now on one leg and now on the other and changing them constantly, stood in the doorway, looking into the parlour with the most extraordinary leer I ever beheld.
-- A few stragglers from the theatres hurried by, and now and then I turned aside to avoid some noisy drunkard as he reeled homewards, but these interruptions were not frequent and soon ceased.
-- said the young man, as he stooped carelessly over the child, and having kissed her, pushed her from him: 'There get you away now you have said your lesson.
-- I have done so, and now my visit's ended.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Children looked with horror at the cut-throat, but the presence of the soldiers reassured them, for she was now powerless to do harm.
-- She was now so far advanced on the road to maternity that to look for a position was out of the question.
-- Formerly he used to earn a competence, but had lost his customers, and was now given to drink, spending everything that came into his hands.
-- On the eighth, when she had reached her twenty-sixth year, there happened that for which she had been jailed, and for which she was now led to the court, after six months of confinement among thieves and murderers.
-- She was now stewardess to the son.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions.
-- And now I must be explicit, for this that follows unless his explanation is to be accepted is an absolutely unaccountable thing.
-- At first we glanced now and again at each other.
-- A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!
-- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous colour like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty sat very demurely on her knee, pretending to watch the progress of the winding, and now and then putting out one paw and gently touching the ball, as if it would be glad to help, if it might.
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