afternoon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 下午， 午后，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the afternoon he turned his steps to-wards his nephew's house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a lightly-snowing afternoon she arrived at the usual corner.
-- The shadows of the wintry afternoon were be-ginning to fall, and even now the dreadful carts were rolling through the streets.
-- Mr. Jerry Cruncher's name, therefore, duly embellished the doorpost down be-low; and, as the afternoon shadows deepened, the owner of that name himself appeared, from overlooking a painter whom Doctor Manette had employed to add to the list the name of Charles Evremonde, called Darnay.
-- Every afternoon at about the time when the public lamps were lighted, they fared forth on this duty, and made and brought home such pur-chases as were needful.
-- Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and looked down on Copenhagen, and far, far away over the water; then we went to Friedericksberg, where the King and the Queen were sailing about in their splendid barges.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the afternoon rest, when they were sitting down again, and those who smoked had lighted their pipes, the old man told the men that "Mashkin Upland's to be cut--there'll be some vodka."
-- Besides the sewing and knitting of baby clothes, with which all of them were busy, that afternoon jam was being made on the terrace by a method new to Agafea Mihalovna, without the addition of water.
-- Chapter 5 At the concert in the afternoon two very interesting things were performed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th October, the Rangoon entered the Strait of Malacca, which separates the peninsula of that name from Sumatra.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet this afternoon he read steadily at the section on the lymphatic system, and he muttered the long and perfectly incomprehensible words in a hum which made drowsier the dusty room.
-- But as he became doubtful about medicine he longed for her sympathy, and on a Sunday afternoon of spring he took her for a walk along the Chaloosa River.
-- Chapter 9 The persistent yammer of a motor horn drew Martin to the window of the laboratory, a late afternoon in February.
-- At one that afternoon they were married, by the German Lutheran pastor.
-- Not till they had caught the afternoon train for Wheatsylvania did Martin and Leora escape from the ghostly apprehension which had hunted them all day.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- [*] Dostoevsky appears to have forgotten that it is after sunset, and that the last time Raskolnikov visited the police office at two in the afternoon he was reproached for coming too late. TRANSLATOR.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the state of matters on the afternoon of what I may beexcused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.
-- His hair was very smooth andwavy; but I was informed by the very first boy who came back thatit was a wig (a second-hand one he said), and that Mr. Sharp wentout every Saturday afternoon to get it curled.
-- But Iremember that this importance was a kind of satisfaction to me, 122when I walked in the playground that afternoon while the boyswere in school.
-- For thisreason, though Mr. Chillip often asked me to go and see him (hewas a widower, having, some years before that, lost a little smalllight-haired wife, whom I can just remember connecting in myown thoughts with a pale tortoise-shell cat), it was but seldom thatI enjoyed the happiness of passing an afternoon in his closet of asurgery; reading some book that was new to me, with the smell ofthe whole pharmacopoeia coming up my nose, or poundingsomething in a mortar under his mild directions.
-- If ever there was a donkeytrespassing on my green,' said my aunt, with emphasis, 'there wasone this afternoon at four o'clock.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think it would be much better if they would come in one afternoon next sum-mer, and take their tea with us take us in their afternoon walk; which they might do, as our hours are so reasonable, and yet get home without being out in the damp of the eve-ning.
-- When Emma afterwards heard that Jane Fairfax had been seen wandering about the meadows, at some distance from Highbury, on the afternoon of the very day on which she had, under the plea of being unequal to any exercise, so peremptorily refused to go out with her in the carriage, she could have no doubt putting every thing together that Jane was resolved to receive no kindness from her.
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