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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies what is the one charm wanting? Water there is not a drop of water there!Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?
-- Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.
-- I remembered a story of a white man a whaleman too who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them.
-- Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas entire strangers to them and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
-- But as for Queequeg why, Queequeg sat there among them at the head of the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- The board then proceeded to converse among themselves for a few minutes, but in so low a tone, that the words 'saving of expenditure,' 'looked well in the accounts,' 'have a printed report published,' were alone audible.
-- This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
-- You don't mind sleeping among the coffins, I suppose?
-- So, they put the bier on the brink of the grave; and the two mourners waited patiently in the damp clay, with a cold rain drizzling down, while the ragged boys whom the spectacle had attracted into the churchyard played a noisy game at hide-and-seek among the tombstones, or varied their amusements by jumping backwards and forwards over the coffin.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 2 r. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited Mon Mr. Bingley.
-- She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.
-- 'Miss Bingley told me,' said Jane, 'that he never speaks much, unless among his intimate acquaintances.
-- I would advise you, before you de-termine on it, to consult the wishes of the present party; I am much mistaken if there are not some among us to whom a ball would be rather a punishment than a pleasure.'
-- I do not remember her name among the ladies at court.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, a great table in a great room was soon profusely covered with a superb repast; and the quarantine quarters became bare indeed, remembered among dainty dishes, southern fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Genoa, snow from the mountain tops, and all the colours of the rainbow flashing in the mirrors.
-- Pet had moved up to her (she had been the subject of remark among her family and Mr Clennam, who were now the only other occupants of the room), and was standing at her side.
-- What secular want could the million or so of human beings whose daily labour, six days in the week, lay among these Arcadian objects, from the sweet sameness of which they had no escape between the cradle and the grave what secular want could they possibly have upon their seventh day?
-- There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat down glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not one whole or hand-some one among them, all were outcasts till Beth took them in, for when her sisters outgrew these idols, they passed to her because Amy would have nothing old or ugly.
-- 'You see, Grandpa lives among his books, and doesn't mind much what happens outside.
-- 'I was very unwise to let you go among people of whom I know so little, kind, I dare say, but worldly, ill-bred, and full of these vulgar ideas about young people.
-- muttered Jo, slamming the stove door open, and poking vigorously among the cinders.
-- As she spoke, Mrs. March came and took her place among them, looking as if her holiday had not been much pleasanter than theirs.
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