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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 120 Grimms' Fairy Tales So now the bird set the table, and the mouse looked after the food and, wishing to prepare it in the same way as the sausage, by rolling in and out among the vegetables to salt and butter them, she jumped into the pot; but she stopped short long before she reached the bottom, having already parted not only with her skin and hair, but also with life.
-- The third day one of the messengers came back, and said, 'I have travelled two days without hearing of any other names; but yesterday, as I was climbing a high hill, among the trees of the forest where the fox and the hare bid each other good night, I saw a little hut; and before the hut burnt a fire; and round about the fire a funny little dwarf was dancing upon one leg, and singing: ''Merrily the feast I'll make.
-- The cow-herd said: 'All right,' and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture, and set it among the grass.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
-- I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among them-selves; for some of them will not allow me to be the author of my own travels; and others make me author of books to which I am wholly a stranger.
-- But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my con-science would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
-- I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor's searchers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe.
-- Among the other pleasing but always strictly moral wonders which must be seen to be believed, Signor Jupe was that afternoon to 'elucidate the diverting accomplishments of his highly trained performing dog Merrylegs.'
-- 'Her calling seems to be pretty well known among 'em,' observed Mr. Bounderby.
-- There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who did the fairy business when required.
-- And as often (and it was very often) as an orator of this kind brought into his peroration,'Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made,' it was, for certain, more or less understood among the company that he had heard of Mrs. Sparsit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imagine my surprise when glancing at the back of the wearisome puzzle, the ink having gone through, I clearly made out Latin words, and among others craterem and terrestre.
-- He was too busy examining his papers, among which of course was the famous parchment, and some letters of introduction from the Danish consul which were to pave the way to an introduction to the Governor of Iceland.
-- "Well, I should think about ten days," replied the skipper, "unless, indeed, we meet with some northeast gales among the Faroe Islands."
-- "Well, M. Fridriksson," he said in an easy, unconcerned kind of way, "I was desirous of ascertaining, if among other valuable works, you had any of the learned Arne Saknussemm."
-- In truth, we soon found that our host did not count civility among the cardinal virtues.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.
-- They had been sent to Dresden at the age of fifteen, for music among other things.
-- They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
-- The one that got her first was the real dog among dogs, if you go by success!So Michaelis could keep his tail up.
-- It is Capitalism, among other things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mother, breaking out again, "when I saw all those children ranged tier above tier, and appealing from the father none of them has ever known on earth, to the great Father of us all in Heaven, I thought, does any wretched mother ever come here, and look among those young faces, wondering which is the poor child she brought into this forlorn world, never through all its life to know her love, her kiss, her face, her voice, even her name!"
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