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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All afternoon and late into the evening he sat lost in tobacco and thought.
-- Do you think that I should intrude if I were to call this afternoon and make the acquaintance of Sir Henry?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This afternoon Rogojin yelled, like a madman, that he would bring me a hundred thousand in the evening, and I have been waiting for him all the while.
-- In the morning Rogojin had seemed to be trying to keep out of the way; but at the station this afternoon he had stood out, he had concealed himself, indeed, less than the prince himself; at the house, now, he had stood fifty yards off on the other side of the road, with folded hands, watch-ing, plainly in view and apparently desirous of being seen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the afternoon he worked with the door locked and, as Mrs. Hall testifies, for the most part in silence.
-- By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.
-- I do not know how they settled the business, I hurried straight across the road, which was happily clear, and hardly heeding which way I went, in the fright of detection the incident had given me, plunged into the afternoon throng of Oxford Street.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found myself that the cries were singularly irritating, and they grew in depth and intensity as the afternoon wore on.
-- The apparition of this grotesque, half-bestial creature had suddenly populated the stillness of the afternoon for me.
-- It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropi- cal afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.
-- In the afternoon the tide stranded the boat, and left it a hundred yards or so to the westward of the ruins of the enclosure.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
-- Then the elephants were chained by their hind legs to their big stumps of pickets, and extra ropes were fitted to the new elephants, and the fodder was piled before them, and the hill drivers went back to Petersen Sahib through the afternoon light, telling the plains drivers to be extra careful that night, and laughing when the plains drivers asked the reason.
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：
-- It was in the afternoon of the fifth day of the siege, and the fourth of his own service in it, that Major Heyward profited by a parley that had just been beaten, by repairing to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, to breathe the cool air from the lake, and to take a survey of the progress of the siege.
-- By the middle of the afternoon they had passed the Sca-roons, and were following the route of the declining sun.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found presently it flew up into my head violently; but I fell into a sound sleep, and waked no more till, by the sun, it must necessarily be near three o'clock in the afternoon the next day - nay, to this hour I am partly of opinion that I slept all the next day and night, and till almost three the day af-ter; for otherwise I know not how I should lose a day out of my reckoning in the days of the week, as it appeared some years after I had done; for if I had lost it by crossing and re-crossing the line, I should have lost more than one day; but certainly I lost a day in my account, and never knew which way.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING--A WAIF AMID FORCES When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money.
-- With the wane of the afternoon went her hopes, her courage, and her strength.
-- All during the long afternoon she thought of the city outside and its imposing show, crowds, and fine buildings.
-- It blew up cold after a rain one afternoon when Carrie was still without a jacket.
-- It was at that hour between afternoon and night when, for the idle, the wanderer, things are apt to take on a wistful aspect.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a general good time.
-- About the middle of the afternoon a couple of little boats come along, but they didn't come from high enough up the river; but at last there was a big one, and they hailed her.
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