appointment是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 约会; 职位，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He scribbled the appointment on his shirtcuff and hurried off in his strange, peering, ab-sent-minded fashion.
-- I start then from the day which succeeded that upon which I had established two facts of great importance, the one that Mrs. Laura Lyons of Coombe Tracey had written to Sir Charles Baskerville and made an appointment with him at the very place and hour that he met his death, the other that the lurking man upon the moor was to be found among the stone huts upon the hill-side.
-- 'You acknowledge then that you made an appointment with Sir Charles at the very hour and place at which he met his death, but you deny that you kept the appointment.'
-- Mrs. Lyons knew neither of these things, but had been impressed by the death occur-ring at the time of an uncancelled appointment which was only known to him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if anyone had added that Aglaya's note was a love-letter, and that it contained an appointment to a lover's rendez-vous, he would have blushed with shame for the speaker, and, probably, have challenged him to a duel.
-- As he rose he noticed Evgenie Pavlovitch, and, remembering the appointment he had made with him, smiled pleasantly.
-- Just fancy to begin with, if you can, that I, too, was given an appointment at the green bench today!However, I won't deceive you; I asked for the appointment.
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：
-- When he set out on his holiday in the Mediterranean he had every intention of returning to London and his appointment at St. Thomas's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm sorry I've got an appointment in the city,' said Quilp, looking at his watch with perfect self-possession, 'or I should have been very glad to have spent half an hour with you while you composed yourself, very glad.'
-- So, after going a little out of their way to see Barbara and Barbara's mother safe to a friend's house where they were to pass the night, Kit and his mother left them at the door, with an early appointment for returning to Finchley next morning, and a great many plans for next quarter's enjoyment.
-- CHAPTER 62A faint light, twinkling from the window of the counting-house on Quilp's wharf, and looking inflamed and red through the night-fog, as though it suffered from it like an eye, forewarned Mr Sampson Brass, as he approached the wooden cabin with a cautious step, that the excellent proprietor, his esteemed client, was inside, and probably waiting with his accustomed patience and sweetness of temper the fulfilment of the appointment which now brought Mr Brass within his fair domain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These thoughts consisted in a recollection of what note he had made the other day in his memoirs anent the appointment of Velianoff to an important post which he desired for himself.
-- At the same time, on the one hand, he could not refuse the appointment, because he would not disappoint those who thought they were pleasing him by it, and, on the other hand, the appointment flattered his vanity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Mr Tite Barnacle could not but feel that there was a person in company, who would have disturbed his life-long sitting to Sir Thomas Lawrence in full official character, if such disturbance had been possible: while Barnacle junior did, with indignation, communicate to two vapid gentlemen, his relatives, that there was a feller here, look here, who had come to our Department without an appointment and said he wanted to know, you know; and that, look here, if he was to break out now, as he might you know (for you never could tell what an ungentlemanly Radical of that sort would be up to next), and was to say, look here, that he wanted to know this moment, you know, that would be jolly; wouldn't it?
-- He stopped at the corner, seeming to look back expectantly up the street as if he had made an appointment with some one to meet him there; but he kept a careful eye on the three.
-- In a day or two it was announced to all the town, that Edmund Sparkler, Esquire, son-in-law of the eminent Mr Merdle of worldwide renown, was made one of the Lords of the Circumlocution Office; and proclamation was issued, to all true believers, that this admirable appointment was to be hailed as a graceful and gracious mark of homage, rendered by the graceful and gracious Decimus, to that commercial interest which must ever in a great commercial country and all the rest of it, with blast of trumpet.
-- With those words, the best and brightest of the Barnacles went down-stairs, hummed his way through the Lodge, mounted his horse in the front court-yard, and rode off to keep an appointment with his noble kinsman, who wanted a little coaching before he could triumphantly answer certain infidel Snobs who were going to question the Nobs about their statesmanship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortly remarking that their roads were different, he departed, without more ceremony than an emphatic repetition of the hour of appointment for the following night.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The invitation was accepted; but when the hour of appointment drew near, necessary as it was in common civility to Mrs. Jennings, that they should both attend her on such a visit, Elinor had some difficulty in persuading her sister to go, for still she had seen nothing of Willoughby; and therefore was not more indisposed for amusement abroad, than unwilling to run the risk of his calling again in her absence.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Friday Carrie remembered her appointment with Hurstwood, and the passing of the hour when she should, by all right of promise, have been in his company served to keep the calamity which had befallen her exceedingly fresh and clear.
-- "I've an appointment at two," he said, "and I've got to go to lunch now.
-- He remembered an appointment at three.
-- "Got an appointment with him?"
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