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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had often reproved Martin for his inappreciation of Howells, for wearing flannel shirts, and for his failure to hand her down from street-cars in the manner of a fiction hero.
-- Generations of Digams had collected test-papers and preserved them in the sacred Quiz Book; geniuses for detail had labored through the volume and marked with red pencil the problems most often set in the course of years.
-- He could often get through half a page of it before he bogged down in chemical formulae.
-- I have often observed with pleasure that such persons do not have heads in which to keep their notes.
-- Good doctors are fine-- often they are artists--but their trade, it is not for us lonely ones that work in labs.
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：
-- The young man often recalled this impression - afterwards, and even ascribed it to presentiment.
-- Often he went to sleep on it, as he was, without undressing, without sheets, wrapped in his old student's overcoat, with his head on one little pillow, under which he heaped up all the linen he had, clean and dirty, by way of a bolster.
-- In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
-- There was always a crowd there, always shouting, laughter and abuse, hideous hoarse singing and often fight-ing.
-- But now, strange to say, in the shafts of such a cart he saw a thin little sorrel beast, one of those peasants' nags which he had often seen straining their utmost under a heavy load of wood or hay, especially when the wheels were stuck in the mud or in a rut.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- Sometimes I fancied that Peggottyperhaps objected to my mother's wearing all the pretty dresses shehad in her drawers, or to her going so often to visit at thatneighbour's; but I couldn't to my satisfaction, make out how it was.
-- 'I tell you, Clara,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'I have been often floggedmyself.'
-- 93The drawback was, that I was often sleepy at night, or out of spiritsand indisposed to resume the story, and then it was rather hardwork, and it must be done; for to disappoint or to displeaseSteerforth was of course out of the question.
-- For myself, I felt so much self-reproach andcontrition for my part in what had happened, that nothing wouldhave enabled me to keep back my tears but the fear that Steerforth,who often looked at me, I saw, might think it unfriendly- or, Ishould rather say, considering our relative ages, and the feelingwith which I regarded him, undutiful- if I showed the emotionwhich distressed me.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How often we shall be going to see them, and they com-ing to see us! We shall be always meeting!We must begin; we must go and pay wedding visit very soon.'
-- His coming to visit his father had been often talk-ed of but never achieved.
-- It is very good advice, and it shall have a better fate than your advice has often found; for it shall be attended to.'
-- She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her rep-utation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.
-- You do not often over-power me with it.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside her Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
-- Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
-- Oak was an intensely humane man: indeed, his humanity often tore in pieces any politic intentions of his which bordered on strategy, and carried him on as by gravitation.
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