often是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 常常， 经常， 通常，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：
-- They often 'came down' handsomely, and Scrooge never did.
-- Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bow-els, but he had never believed it until now.
-- It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her 'Dear, dear broth-er.'
-- How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say.
-- 58 Sons and Lovers 'You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,' said Scrooge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As often as the driver rested them and brought them to a stand, with a wary 'Wo-ho!so-hothen!'
-- The messenger rode back at an easy trot, stopping pretty often at ale-houses by the way to drink, but evincing a ten-dency to keep his own counsel, and to keep his hat cocked over his eyes.
-- The fellow pointed to his joke with immense signifi-cance, as is often the way with his tribe.
-- It missed its mark, and completely failed, as is often the way with his tribe too.
-- There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.
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：
-- In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited a very large party, in order, as is often the case, to get a return invitation from the others.
-- 'He is certainly,' thought he, 'some village school-master-some queer old fellow, such as one still often meets with in Jutland.'
-- The part of the body most difficult to manage on such occasions was, no doubt, the head; here, as is so often the case in the world, long-headed people get through best.
-- If only to-morrow on awaking, I could again call all to mind so vividly!I seem in unusually good spirits; my perception of things is clear, I feel as light and cheerful as though I were in heaven; but I know for a certainty, that if to-morrow a dim remembrance of it should swim before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense, as I have often experienced already especially before I enlisted under the banner of the police, for that dispels like a whirlwind all the visions of an unfettered imagination.
-- The children often came with a whole pitcher full of berries, or a long row of them threaded on a straw, and sat down near the young tree and said, 'Oh, how pretty he is!What a nice little fir!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And at this recollection, Stepan Arkadyevitch, as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words.
-- But in spite of this, each of them--as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds--though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it.
-- How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevitch could never quite make out, and indeed he took no interest in the matter.
-- In those days Levin used often to be in the Shtcherbatskys' house, and he was in love with the Shtcherbatsky household.
-- He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions.
-- He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities.
-- His last master, young Lord Longferry, Member of Parliament, after passing his nights in the Haymarket taverns, was too often brought home in the morning on policemen's shoulders.
-- "A magnificent robbery, consul; fifty-five thousand pounds!We don't often have such windfalls.
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