among是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…之中; 在一群(组) 之中; 于…之间,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《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Among the dishes served up to him, the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet of "native rabbit," on which he prided himself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did awe his Gang by bandaging stone-bruises, dissecting squirrels, and explaining the astounding and secret matters to be discovered at the back of the physiology, but he was not completely free from an ambition to command such glory among them as was enjoyed by the son of the Episcopalian minister, who could smoke an entire cigar without becoming sick.
-- On evenings when the Doc was away, Martin would acquire prestige among the trembling Gang by leading them into the unutterable darkness and scratching a sulfur match on the skeleton's jaw.
-- But also as an academic graduate, with a training in the basic sciences, he felt superior to his fellow medics, most of whom had but a high-school diploma, with perhaps one year in a ten- room Lutheran college among the cornfields.
-- The calculations were delicate, minute, exquisitely clear; and delicate were the scientist's thin hands among the papers.
-- Duer was one of the few among Martin's classmates in the academic course who had gone on with him to the Winnemac medical school.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Sometimes he stood still before a brightly painted summer villa standing among green foliage, he gazed through the fence, he saw in the distance smartly dressed women on the verandahs and balconies, and children running in the gar-dens.
-- And it was so cool, it was wonderful, wonderful, blue, cold water running among the parti-co-loured stones and over the clean sand which glistened here and there like gold芒聙娄.
-- There turned out to be various articles made of gold among the clothes probably all pledges, un-redeemed or waiting to be redeemed bracelets, chains, ear-rings, pins and such things.
-- He pulled off the noose, hurriedly cut it to pieces and threw the bits among his linen under the pillow.
-- Among them were two ladies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The evening wind made such a disturbancejust now, among some tall old elmtrees at the bottom of the garden,that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing thatway.
-- A dark store-room opens out of it, and that is a place to be run past at night; for Idon't know what may be among those tubs and jars and old tea-chests, when there is nobody in there with a dimly-burning light,letting a mouldy air come out at the door, in which there is thesmell of soap, pickles, pepper, candles, and coffee, all at one whiff.
-- That is among my very earliest impressions.
-- That, and a sense thatwe were both a little afraid of Peggotty, and submitted ourselves inmost things to her direction, were among the first opinions- if theymay be so called- that I ever derived from what I saw.
-- My mother deferred to her very much- more than usual, itoccurred to me- and we were all three excellent friends; still wewere different from what we used to be, and were not socomfortable among ourselves.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civ-il, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- Now was the time for Mr. Frank Churchill to come among them; and the hope strengthened when it was understood that he had written to his new mother on the occasion.
-- After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.
-- She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The image as a whole was that of a small Noah's Ark on a small Ararat, allowing the traditionary outlines and general form of the Ark which are followed by toy-makers and by these means are established in men's imaginations among their firmest, because earliest impressions to pass as an approximate pattern.
-- He hastily scanned the ditch and after walking about ten yards along it found the hat among the leaves.
-- Oak was amused, perhaps a little astonished, and hanging up the hat in his hut, went again among his ewes.
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