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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since we have been so unfortu-nate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance.
-- 'I think,' said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, 'that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elder-ly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.'
-- 'Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
-- The appearance of our visitor was a surprise to me, since I had expected a typical country practitioner.
-- It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how large were those schemes of recon-struction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you, ever since yesterday evening I have had the strongest desire to go on and on talking Russian.'
-- 'Thank you, general; you have behaved very kindly to me; all the more so since I did not ask you to help me.
-- 'Thank you,' began the prince; 'and since you are so very kind there is just one matter which I ' 'You must really excuse me,' interrupted the general, 'but I positively haven't another moment now.
-- Now, since Totski had, of late, been upon terms of great cordiality with Epanchin, which excellent relations were in-tensified by the fact that they were, so to speak, partners in several financial enterprises, it so happened that the for-mer now put in a friendly request to the general for counsel with regard to the important step he meditated.
-- The general and his wife were aware of this agreement, and, therefore, when Totski suggested himself for one of the sisters, the parents made no doubt that one of the two el-der girls would probably accept the offer, since Totski would certainly make no difficulty as to dowry.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me.'
-- Whereon the son of Atreus rose in anger, and threatened that which he has since done.
-- 'All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans.
-- Help me, and since I may not return home to gladden the hearts of my wife and of my infant son, let me die within the walls of your city.'
-- But, since the gods have devised these evils, would, at any rate, that I had been wife to a better man to one who could smart under dis-honour and men's evil speeches.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything was ruddy, shadowy, and indistinct to her, the more so since she had just been lighting the bar lamp, and her eyes were dazzled.
-- He had been writing slackly, and with intervals of abstraction, since the shots.
-- "My last thoughts before sleeping were the most agreeable I had had since the change.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has been hazed ever since he came aboard.'
-- But as it was I suddenly be-gan to sob and weep, as I had never done since I was a little child.
-- The vague dread that had been in my mind since I had seen the inhuman face of the man at the stream grew distinc-ter as I stood there.
-- All the time since I had heard his name, I had been trying to link in my mind in some way the grotesque animalism of the islanders with his abominations; and now I thought I saw it all.
-- It is really eleven years since we came here, I and Montgomery and six Kanakas.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first time since he was born, Bagheera was fighting for his life.
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