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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the first time in Boldwood's life that such an event had occurred.
-- BLAME FURYThe next evening Bathsheba, with the idea of getting out of the way of Mr. Boldwood in the event of his returning to answer her note in person, proceeded to fulfil an engagement made with Liddy some few hours earlier.
-- A short time ago I had the happiness to lead to the altar this lady, your mistress, and not until now have we been able to give any public flourish to the event in Weatherbury.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
-- I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide to him that event which was so often present to my recollection but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.
-- Felix was too delicate to accept this offer, yet he looked forward to the probability of the event as to the consummation of his happiness.
-- We were told this when young, and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place.
-- A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For which cogent reason I kept Biddy at a distance during supper, and when I went up to my own old little room, took as stately a leave of her as I could, in my murmuring soul, deem reconcilable with the churchyard and the event of the day.
-- As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn.
-- A great event in my life, the turning point of my life, now opens on my view.
-- * *And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet; the event that had begun to be prepared for, before I knew that the world held Estella, and in the days when her baby intelligence was receiving its first distortions from Miss Havisham's wasting hands.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lastly, I would carefully record every action and event of consequence, that happened in the public, impartially draw the characters of the several successions of princes and great ministers of state, with my own observations on every point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after dark they all three got in and started; the learned dog (a formidable creature) already pinning Bitzer with his eye, and sticking close to the wheel on his side, that he might be ready for him in the event of his showing the slightest disposition to alight.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, on the other hand, considered the event of sublime importance.
-- But the next event to be related is terrible indeed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- I also mentioned to your sister I again address the non-professional Miss Dorrit that my son would have nothing in the event of such a marriage, and would be an absolute beggar.
-- Under the latter great wrong, a few suffered dreadfully particularly on Sundays, when they had for some time expected the earth to open and swallow the public up; but which desirable event had not yet occurred, in consequence of some reprehensible laxity in the arrangements of the Universe.
-- They walked up the street on one side of the way, and down it on the other, what time two vociferous news-sellers, announcing an extraordinary event that had never happened and never would happen, pitched their hoarse voices into the secret chambers; but nothing came of it.
-- There was to be a convocation of Barnacles on the occasion, in order that that very high and very large family might shed as much lustre on the marriage as so dim an event was capable of receiving.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down they went, feeling a trifle timid, for they seldom went to parties, and informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous event in this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages; so that for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon Verily there is nothing new under the sun.
-- This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed.
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