ago是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. (常和一般过去时的动词连用) 以前， …前，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such; but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever want-ed was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The game of prisoner's base, which not so long ago seemed to enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there.
-- Apparently he had some time ago reached that entrance to middle age at which a man's aspect naturally ceases to alter for the term of a dozen years or so; and, artificially, a woman's does likewise.
-- This picture of to-day in its frame of four hundred years ago did not produce that marked contrast between ancient and modern which is implied by the contrast of date.
-- In London, twenty or thirty-years ago are old times; in Paris ten years, or five; in Weatherbury three or four score years were included in the mere present, and nothing less than a century set a mark on its face or tone.
-- Treating me like Dick, Tom and Harry when you know that a short time ago my position was as good as yours!Upon my life, Bathsheba, it is too barefaced.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a consider-able sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
-- 'How inconstant are your feelings!But a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, byrequest, from the University of Virginia.
-- But since that day two years ago whenAshley, newly home from his three years' Grand Tour in Europe, had called to pay his respects, she had loved him.
-- "The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brushand seedling pine.
-- There were strange faces on the streets of Atlantanow, and citizens who a year ago would have pricked op their ears at the sound of even a Western accent paid no heedto the foreign tongues of Europeans who had run the blockade to build machines and turn out Confederate munitions.
-- That was so long ago and I've grown up since then and I'd forget all about it if you weren't alwaysharping and hinting about it."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While we were comforting ourselves by the fire after our meal, the Jack--who was sitting in a corner, and who had a bloated pair of shoes on, which he had exhibited while we were eating our eggs and bacon, as interesting relics that he had taken a few days ago from the feet of a drowned seaman washed ashore--asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide?
-- A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child.
-- But when I heard the Sunday bells, and looked around a little more upon the outspread beauty, I felt that I was not nearly thankful enough,--that I was too weak yet to be even that,--and I laid my head on Joe's shoulder, as I had laid it long ago when he had taken me to the Fair or where not, and it was too much for my young senses.
-- I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 209THE WHITE SNAKE long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his Awisdom through all the land.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This confirmed me in the opinion I have 364 Gulliver's Travelslong entertained, that the maps and charts place this coun-try at least three degrees more to the east than it really is; which thought I communicated many years ago to my wor-thy friend, Mr. Herman Moll, and gave him my reasons for it, although he has rather chosen to follow other authors.
-- I mean, if the inhabitants 379ought to be believed, unless a dispute may arise concern-ing the two Yahoos, said to have been seen many years ago upon a mountain in Houyhnhnmland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Stephen had but a little while ago instinctively addressed himself to her, so she now instinctively addressed herself to Rachael.
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：
-- She slipped on her rubber shoes again and ran out with a wild little laugh, holding up her breasts to the heavy rain and spreading her arms, and running blurred in the rain with the eurhythmic dance movements she had learned so long ago in Dresden.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Two years ago I came to Marseilles.
-- So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London?
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