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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The first hypothesis I reject, then, to begin with, for Harry Grant could not have reached the English colonies, or long ago he would have been back with his children in the good town of Dundee."
-- Indeed, the coroner's inquest decided that the crime must be attributed to the band of convicts which escaped six months ago from the Penitentiary at Perth, Western Australia, just as they were about to be transferred to Norfolk Island.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
-- Only a few weeks ago she was cleaning out Sir Charles's study it had never been touched since his death and she found the ash-es of a burned letter in the back of the grate.
-- 'Selden told me of him, sir, a week ago or more.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- observed the clerk, while his face assumed an expression of great deference and servil-ity if not of absolute alarm: 'what, a son of that very Semen Rogojin hereditary honourable citizen who died a month or so ago and left two million and a half of roubles?'
-- I assure you, I saw the sight a month ago and it's dancing before my eyes to this moment.
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
-- First, with a sad smile, and then with a twinkle of mer-riment in her eyes, she admitted that such a storm as that of five years ago was now quite out of the question.
-- But, of late, Totski had observed many strange and origi-nal features and characteristics in Nastasia, which he had neither known nor reckoned upon in former times, and some of these fascinated him, even now, in spite of the fact that all his old calculations with regard to her were long ago cast to the winds.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's a steep road by the down, sir," she said in answer to the question about a trap; and then, snatching at an opening, said, "It was there a carriage was upsettled, a year ago and more.
-- "I told you three days ago I was awaiting a remittance " "I told you two days ago I wasn't going to await no remittances.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How long ago was this?"
-- "I went out a while ago and forgot my outside key, so I thought I'd ring your bell."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnScene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago Chapter I OU don't know about me without you have read a book Yby the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
-- A few days ago I was talk- ing with an old couple that lives next door in the log shanty, and they happened to say hardly anybody ever goes to that island over yonder that they call Jackson's Island.
-- 'Bout three months ago my cousin Bud, fourteen year old, was riding through the woods on t'other side of the river, and didn't have no weapon with him, which was blame' foolishness, and in a lonesome place he hears a horse a-coming behind him, and sees old Baldy Shepherdson a-linkin' after him with his gun in his hand and his white hair a-flying in the wind; and 'stead of jumping off and taking to the brush, Bud 'lowed he could out- run him; so they had it, nip and tuck, for five mile or more, the old man a-gaining all the time; so at last Bud seen it warn't any use, so he stopped and faced around so as to have the bullet holes in front, you know, and the old man he rode up and shot him down.
-- De fambly foun' it out 'bout half an hour ago maybe a little mo' en' I TELL you dey warn't no time los'.
-- About an hour or two ago it would a been a little different, but now it made me feel bad and disappointed, The king rips out and says: 'What!And not sell out the rest o' the property?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Centuries ago there lived-- "A king!"
-- "I left him three days ago on the shore of a large sea."
-- "A poor old father lost his only son some time ago and today he built a tiny boat for himself in order to go in search of him across the ocean.
-- "But, then, how is it that you, who a few minutes ago were a donkey, are now standing before me a wooden Marionette?"
-- I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble."
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