at是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 以， 达； 在…方面，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：
-- A Christmas CarolBy Charles DickensDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
-- Oh!But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge!a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; se-cret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
-- He carried his own low temperature al-ways about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
-- Even the blind men's dogs ap-peared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens (1859)Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
-- Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achieve-ments as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, be-cause he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burn-ing people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of six-pence.
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：
-- Time passed merrily in the large town which was his cap-ital; strangers arrived every day at the court.
-- 'Had I such a suit, I might at once find out what men in my realms are unfit for their office, and also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish!This stuff must be woven for me immediately.'
-- So the two pretended weavers set up two looms, and affected to work very busily, though in reality they did nothing at all.
-- They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
-- 'I will send my faithful old minister to the weavers,' said the Emperor at last, after some deliberation, 'he will be best able to see how the cloth looks; for he is a man of sense, and no one can be more suitable for his office than be is.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days.
-- The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen- maid, and the coachman had given warning.
-- Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.
-- He turned over his stout, well-cared- for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
-- Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MANMr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.
-- He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts.
-- His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush.
-- He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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