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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the largest whales, those which frequent those parts of the sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, have never exceeded the length of sixty yards, if they attain that.
-- Now leaning on the netting of the forecastle, now on the taffrail, I devoured with eagerness the soft foam which whitened the sea as far as the eye could reach; and how often have I shared the emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious whale raised its black back above the waves!The poop of the vessel was crowded on a moment.
-- The warmest partisans of the enterprise now became its most ardent detractors.
-- The order to stop her had been given, and the frigate now simply went on by her own momentum.
-- Now I thought our expedition was at an end, and that we should never again see the extraordinary animal.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was hoping now for a man to come along," Gudrun said, suddenly catching her underlip between her teeth, and making a strange grimace, half sly smiling, half anguish.
-- "And how do you find home, now you have come back to it?"
-- Now the two girls were going between some rows of dwellings, of the poorer sort.
-- Now she came along, with her head held up, balancing an enormous flat hat of pale yellow velvet, on which were streaks of ostrich feathers, natural and grey.
-- Now he spoke quite easily and pleasantly to Mr Crich, as they walked along the path; he played with situations like a man on a tight-rope: but always on a tight-rope, pretending nothing but ease.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't think it possible for me to get home now without a guide,' I could not help exclaiming.
-- I thought her conduct must be prompted by a species of dreary fun; and, now that we were alone, I endeavoured to interest her in my distress.
-- On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners.
-- I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
-- A more elastic footstep entered next; and now I opened my mouth for a 'good morning,' but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison SOTTO VOCE, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummaged a corner for a spade or shovel to dig through the drifts.
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：
-- Now don't interrupt me!'
-- Now you can't deny it, Kitty: I heard you!What's that you say?'
-- Now don't make any more excuses, but listen!Number two: you pulled Snowdrop away by the tail just as I had put down the saucer of milk before her!What, you were thirsty, were you?
-- Now for number three: you unwound every bit of the worsted while I wasn't looking!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.
-- Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body.
-- "And now, sir," continued the doctor, "since I now know there's such a fellow in my district, you may count I'll have an eye upon you day and night.
-- And now you see, mate, I'm pretty low, and deserted by all; and Jim, you'll bring me one noggin of rum, now, won't you, matey?"
-- It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood'll be on you, Jim, and that doctor swab"; and he ran on again for a while with curses.
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