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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Found among the papers of the late Diedrech Knickerbock-er.
-- Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
-- How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tomb-stones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent mill-pond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his supe-rior elegance and address.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- Among the musical disciples who assembled, one eve-ning in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What chance is there that any book will make its way among that multitude?
-- It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember.
-- It is not without melancholy that I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London when first, bashful but eager, I was introduced to it.
-- The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris.
-- In those days my experience of life at first hand was small, and it excited me to come upon an incident among people I knew of the same sort as I had read in books.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The following narrative was found among his papers by the undersigned, his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied by any definite request for publication.
-- I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing to-gether among the sharks that followed us; but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink, the sailor came round to him.
-- The poor devil went down like a felled ox, and rolled in the dirt among the furiously excited dogs.
-- Then, stopping to look back once or twice, he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me, and I heard the swish of the fronds grow faint in the distance and die away.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.'
-- The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsports-manlike to touch him.
-- A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if neces-sary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs.
-- Now, was there ever a wolf that could boast of a man's cub among her chil-dren?'
-- Mother Wolf threw herself down panting among the cubs, and Father Wolf said to her gravely: 'Shere Khan speaks this much truth.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now com-poses the United States.
-- Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the 'holy lake' extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
-- He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting' It would seem that the stock of the horse of Israel had descended to our own time; would it not, friend?'
-- A gen-eral movement among the domestics, and a low sound of gentle voices, announced the approach of those whose pres-ence alone was wanted to enable the cavalcade to move.
-- As they traversed that short distance, not a voice was heard among them; but a slight exclamation proceed-ed from the younger of the females, as the Indian runner glided by her, unexpectedly, and led the way along the mil-itary road in her front.
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