event是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 事件， 事情，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：
-- Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a con-dition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrass-ing explanation.
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：
-- The war of the buccaneers of1490 was so recent that it could not fail being alluded to; the English pirates had, they said, most shamefully taken their ships while in the roadstead; and the Councillor, be-fore whose eyes the Herostratic* event of 1801 still floated vividly, agreed entirely with the others in abusing the ras-cally English.
-- And he now re-membered the important event of the evening before, how 46 Andersen's Fairy Taleshis head had got jammed in between the iron railings of the hospital.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, in the event of divorce, or even of an attempt to obtain a divorce, it was obvious that the wife broke off all relations with the husband and threw in her lot with the lover.
-- And so I simply inform you that our relations must be just as they have always been, and that only in the event of your compromising me I shall be obliged to take steps to secure my honor."
-- She called Varenka at that moment merely in order mentally to give her a blessing for the important event which, as Kitty fancied, was bound to come to pass that day after dinner in the wood.
-- Chapter 6 During the time of the children's tea the grown-up people sat in the balcony and talked as though nothing had happened, though they all, especially Sergey Ivanovitch and Varenka, were very well aware that there had happened an event which, though negative, was of very great importance.
-- The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which was promised him, but which he still could not believe in--so marvelous it seemed--presented itself to his mind, on one hand, as a happiness so immense, and therefore so incredible; on the other, as an event so mysterious, that this assumption of a definite knowledge of what would be, and consequent preparation for it, as for something ordinary that did happen to people, jarred on him as confusing and humiliating.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aouda was thunderstruck at the suddenness of an event which she could not understand.
-- Ruined!And by the blundering of the detective!After having steadily traversed that long journey, overcome a hundred obstacles, braved many dangers, and still found time to do some good on his way, to fail near the goal by a sudden event which he could not have foreseen, and against which he was unarmed; it was terrible!But a few pounds were left of the large sum he had carried with him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told himself that these villagers were generous; that their snooping was in part an affectionate interest, and inevitable in a village where the most absorbing event of the year was the United Brethren Sunday School picnic on Fourth of July.
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：
-- All of a sudden everyone began to treat her with marked respect and all this did much to bring about the event by which, one may say, our whole fortunes are now transformed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was only one other event in this half-year, out of the dailyschool-life, that made an impression upon me which still survives.
-- The shock of such an event happeningso suddenly, and happening to one with whom I had been in anyrespect at variance- the appalling vacancy in the room he hadoccupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait forhim, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost- theindefinable impossibility of separating him from the place, andfeeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in- the lazyhush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish withwhich our people talked about it, and other people came in and outall day, and gorged themselves with the subject- this is easilyintelligible to any one.
-- 'I assure you, my dear boy,' saysTraddles, 'I am almost as pleased as if I were going to be marriedmyself, to think that this event is coming to such a happytermination.
-- It was altogether such an astonishing event to see her do it!
-- 723CHAPTER LVTempestI NOW approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, sobound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, inthese pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen itgrowing larger and larger as I advanced, like a great tower in aplain, and throwing its fore-cast shadow even on the incidents ofmy childish days.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The event had every promise of happiness for her friend.
-- He told me every thing; his circumstances and plans, and what they all pro-posed doing in the event of his marriage.
-- The evening before this great event (for it was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December) had been spent by Harriet at Hartfield, and she had gone home so much indisposed with a cold, that, but for her own earnest wish of being nursed by Mrs. Goddard, Emma could not have allowed her to leave the house.
-- This event had very lately taken place; too lately for any thing to be yet attempted by her less fortunate friend to-wards entering on her path of duty; though she had now reached the age which her own judgment had fixed on for beginning.
-- The event was more favourable to Mr. Woodhouse than to Emma.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The left arm was extended as a balance, enough of it being shown bare to make Oak wish that the event had happened in the summer, when the whole would have been revealed.
-- He was endeavouring to catch and appreciate the sensation of being thus with her, his head upon her dress, before the event passed on into the heap of bygone things.
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