since是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 自从conj. 自从； 因为， 既然ad. 后来，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Practical assistance not one could give, this they all knew, and they had long since exhausted their stock of condolence over previous discussions of their grievances.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Six years have passed since I resolved on my present undertaking.
-- No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
-- What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp.
-- 'You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you ap-pear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?'
-- Little alteration, except the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on theporch were neither slack nor soft.
-- Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a fine joke, and Scarlett, who had notwillingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy the year before, thought it just as amusing asthey did.
-- They had known her for years, and, since their childhood, she had been a favorite playmate, for shecould ride horses and climb trees almost as well as they.
-- Since the day of the speaking, Stuart had been uncomfortable in India's presence.
-- The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union,and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I may truly say I've never had this apron of mine off since born you were.
-- Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror.
-- "You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?"
-- This mental exercise lasted until Biddy made a rush at them and distributed three defaced Bibles (shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump end of something), more illegibly printed at the best than any curiosities of literature I have since met with, speckled all over with ironmould, and having various specimens of the insect world smashed between their leaves.
-- They had been there ever since I could remember, and had grown more than I had.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bean thanked him most pret-tily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.
-- It was now three mornings since they had left their fa-ther's house.
-- The man had not known one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; the woman, however, was dead.
-- 'Yes, father,' answered he; 'I have travelled all over the world, I think, in one way or other, since we parted; and now I am very glad to come home and get fresh air again.'
-- When he came to his father's house, he said he was his son; but the merchant would not believe him, and said he had had but one son, his poor Heinel, who he knew was long since dead: and as he was only dressed like a poor shepherd, he would not even give him anything to eat.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my sev-eral voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid read-ers to adjust it as they please.
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- I must freely confess, that since my last return, some corrup-tions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Ya-hoo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.
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