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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I led a very regular life, working in the morning, and in the afternoon lounging about the gardens of the Luxembourg or sauntering through the streets.
-- "This afternoon I couldn't stand it any more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is difficult, however, to please everybody, as most of us would have discovered, even without the fable which bears that moral, and in the course of the afternoon several mothers and aunts of pupils looked in to express their entire disapproval of the schoolmaster's proceeding.
-- The afternoon had worn away into a beautiful evening, when they arrived at a point where the road made a sharp turn and struck across a common.
-- At last, he travelled back to the Wilderness, which was within rifle-shot of his bachelor retreat, and ordered tea in the wooden summer-house that afternoon for three persons; an invitation to Miss Sally Brass and her brother to partake of that entertainment at that place, having been the object both of his journey and his note.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the afternoon I met my little woman, as I believe it was, as I was returning towards my centre from an exploration, and she received me with cries of delight and presented me with a big garland of flowers evidently made for me and me alone.
-- "I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible.
-- I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow.
-- No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.
-- Let's allow the men an afternoon ashore.
-- When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless given him the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself given anything and everything to get a chance of moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the money.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was within 638 miles of the coast of Ireland; and at half-past two in the afternoon they discovered that communication with Europe had ceased.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the sky had come overdark, as the end of the afternoon approached: there was scarcely light to draw any more.
-- The afternoon had passed so swiftly.
-- The afternoon was full of larks' singing.
-- On Friday afternoon great basketfuls of buns and cakes were taken into the schools, and great pitchers of milk, the schoolchildren had what they wanted.
-- The afternoon was fine and dim.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 2 YESTERDAY afternoon set in misty and cold.
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