eve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (节日等的) 前夜， 前夕，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely you could not marry a woman who accepts pearls like those you knew the general was going to give me, on the very eve of her marriage?
-- 'Yes, it is a fact, and this time, let me tell you, on the very eve of their marriage!It was a question of minutes when she slipped off to Petersburg.
-- That took place as I said on the eve of Easter, and eight days later his soul returned to God.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once upon a time of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tubbs looked at the assistants; like a plotter in a political play, and hinted, "May we have a talk--" Gottlieb led him to his office, overlooking a vast bustle of side- tracks, of curving rails and brown freight-cars, and Tubbs urged: "It has come to our attention, by a curious chance, that you are on the eve of your most significant discovery.
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：
-- Think only!Simply because a poor student, unhinged by poverty and hypo-chondria, on the eve of a severe delirious illness (note that), suspicious, vain, proud, who has not seen a soul to speak to for six months, in rags and in boots without soles, has to face some wretched policemen and put up with their inso-lence; and the unexpected debt thrust under his nose, the I.O.U.
-- And he's on the eve of some desperate step, that's certain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, on the eve of such a departure, you willaccompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to ourpresent abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to theoccasion, you will confer a boon 'On 'One 'Who 'Is 'Ever yours,'WILKINS MICAWBER.'
-- It may be expected that on the eve of a migrationwhich will consign us to a perfectly new existence,' Mr. Micawberspoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, 'I shouldoffer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see beforeme.
-- Micawber being now on the eve of casting off the pecuniaryshackles that have so long enthralled him,' said Mrs. Micawber,'and of commencing a new career in a country where there issufficient range for his abilities,- which, in my opinion, isexceedingly important; Mr. Micawber's abilities peculiarlyrequiring space,- it seems to me that my family should signalise theoccasion by coming forward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will separate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and that the meeting will never be.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- NIGHT THE FLOCK AN INTERIOR ANOTHER INTERIORIt was nearly midnight on the eve of St. Thomas's, the shortest day in the year.
-- A summer eve and loneliness would have been necessary to give the meeting its proper fulness of romance.
-- That he had been from the time of Greenhill Fair until the fatal Christmas Eve in excited and unusual moods was known to those who had been intimate with him; but nobody imagined that there had shown in him unequivocal symptoms of the mental derangement which Bathsheba and Oak, alone of all others and at different times, had momentarily suspected.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the eve of Easter Sunday, the priest and deacon who, as they afterward related, with difficulty covered the three miles from the church to the aunts' manor, arrived on a sleigh to perform the morning services.
-- It was on the eve of Shrovetide, in the wilds about sixty versts from the railroad.
-- The cause of Selenin's ardor lay in the fact that he knew the president of the stock company to be dishonest in money affairs, while he accidentally learned that Wolf, almost on the eve of the hearing of the case, had attended a sumptuous dinner at the president's house.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I suppose the ap-ple Adam offered Eve wasn't really much bigger, if any, than one of our orange pippins.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had, I might have wished to be now empowered to mention to another gentleman, a gentleman of military exterior at present waiting in the Lodge, that my client had never intended to remain here, and was on the eve of removal to a superior abode.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On New Year's Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the all-important business of 'getting ready for the party'.
-- Tuesday Eve Had a lively time in my seminary this morning, for the children acted like Sancho, and at one time I really thought I should shake them all round.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.
-- Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights.
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