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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 518 EmmaChapter XIIIThe weather continued much the same all the following morning; and the same loneliness, and the same melan-choly, seemed to reign at Hartfield but in the afternoon it cleared; the wind changed into a softer quarter; the clouds were carried off; the sun appeared; it was summer again.
-- I know what thorough justice you will do it, and have scarcely a doubt of its happy effect. I think we shall never materially disagree about the writer again; but I will not delay you by a long preface. We are quite well. This letter has been the cure of all the little nervousness I have been feeling lately. I did not quite like your looks on Tuesday, but it was an ungenial morning; and though you will never own being affected by weather, I think every body feels a north-east wind. I felt for your dear father very much in the storm of Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning, but had the comfort of hearing last night, by Mr. Perry, that it had not made him ill. 'Yours ever, 'A.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One afternoon it began to freeze, and the frost increased with evening, which drew on like a stealthy tightening of bonds.
-- SORTES SANCTORUM THE VALENTINEIt was Sunday afternoon in the farmhouse, on the thirteenth of February.
-- TROUBLES IN THE FOLD A MESSAGEGabriel Oak had ceased to feed the Weatherbury flock for about four-and-twenty hours, when on Sunday afternoon the elderly gentlemen Joseph Poorgrass, Matthew Moon, Fray, and half-a-dozen others, came running up to the house of the mistress of the Upper Farm.
-- She belongs by law to our parish; and Mr. Boldwood is going to send a waggon at three this afternoon to fetch her home here and bury her."
-- In the course of the afternoon she said to Liddy, who had been informed of the occurrence, "What was the colour of poor Fanny Robin's hair?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day Rastignac dressed himself very elegantly, and about three o'clock in the afternoon went to call on Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'These thoughts calmed me, and in the afternoon I sank into a profound sleep; but the fever of my blood did not al-low me to be visited by peaceful dreams.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation, that brightApril afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture.
-- Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees thatwere solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
-- Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkesplantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.
-- "Hold your tongue, Miss!I had it from John Wilkes this afternoon in the strictest confidence that Ashley's tomarry Miss Melanie.
-- He had forgotten completely about his conversation with her that afternoon and was carrying on amonologue about the latest news from Fort Sumter, which he punctuated by hammering his fist on the table andwaving his arms in the air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- I said to Biddy we would walk a little farther, and we did so, and the summer afternoon toned down into the summer evening, and it was very beautiful.
-- In the evening we went out for a walk in the streets, and went half-price to the Theatre; and next day we went to church at Westminster Abbey, and in the afternoon we walked in the Parks; and I wondered who shod all the horses there, and wished Joe did.
-- "He told me so this afternoon when he heard you were coming.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall drive there in my carriage at two o'clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by 275four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have passed many an afternoon very agreeably in these conversations.
-- On the fifth of December, 1715, we cast anchor in the Downs, about nine in the morn- 371ing, and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Rotherhith.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.'
-- The white night-cap, embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt upright, in which Signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened the varied performances with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts, hung upon a nail; but no other portion of his wardrobe, or other token of himself or his pursuits, was to be seen anywhere.
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