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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a small bird went to bed supperless that night among the bare boughs.
-- "It was not exactly the fault of the hut," she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among Mme.
-- And you, too, will do the like; you who with this book in your white hand will sink back among the cushions of your armchair, and say to yourself, "Perhaps this may amuse me."
-- Among them she distributed, with astronomical precision, the exact proportion of respect and attention due to the varying amounts they paid for their board.
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
-- She fed those convicts condemned to penal servitude for life, and her authority was recognized among them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
-- Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.
-- We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequali-14 Frankensteinties of the ice.
-- Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will ap-pear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.'
-- Among these there was one which at-tracted my mother far above all the rest.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But rich planters were few in the youngcounty of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among thesons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a very few cases, even poor whites,if they were above the average of their class.
-- Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that littlepeople must be hardy to survive among large ones.
-- Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the otherO'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government But Gerald was "loud-mouthed andbullheaded," as his mother fondly phrased it, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on hisshoulder so large as to be almost visible to the naked eye.
-- He swaggered among the tall O'Haras like a struttingbantam in a barnyard of giant Cochin roosters, and they loved him, baited him affectionately to hear him roar andhammered on him with their large fists no more than was necessary to keep a baby brother in his proper place.
-- And look at my children!Big and healthyand not a sickly one or a runt among them, though Boyd is only five feet ten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch.
-- I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
-- As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.
-- But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.
-- "You know, old chap," said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs. Joe, with his bite still in his cheek, "I Bolted, myself, when I was your age--frequent--and as a boy I've been among a many Bolters; but I never see your Bolting equal yet, Pip, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- they said among themselves.
-- The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, but-tered, and salted, and ready to be served.
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