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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
-- He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime-pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- There was a sickly pallor, such as is often seen in anaemic girls, in Mlle.
-- The widow often talked of this deplorable business, and regretted her own too confiding disposition.
-- They must drink the water from some particular spring--it is stagnant as often as not; but they will sell their wives and families, they will sell their own souls to the devil to get it.
-- It often happens that the woman does not care for them at all, and treats them cruelly; they buy their morsels of satisfaction very dear; but no matter, the fools are never tired of it; they will take their last blanket to the pawnbroker's to give their last five-franc piece to her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative!My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.
-- Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding.
-- Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottag-es of the poor.
-- It 41was said, and we retired under the pretence of seeking re-pose, each fancying that the other was deceived; but when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Eliza-beth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For two years he had squired her about the County, to balls, fish fries, picnics and court days, never so often asthe Tarleton twins or Cade Calvert, never so importunate as the younger Fontaine boys, but, still, never the week wentby that Ashley did not come calling at Tara.
-- Too often she had surprised him when his eyes wereneither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
-- As a child, she often had crept to the door and, peeping through the tiniest crack, had seen Ellen emerge fromthe dark room, where Gerald's snores were rhythmic and untroubled, into the flickering light of an upheld candle, hermedicine case under her arm, her hair smoothed neatly place, and no button on her basque unlooped.
-- Men wererough of speech and often drunk.
-- As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie,no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She concluded by throwing me--I often served as a connubial missile--at Joe, who, glad to get hold of me on any terms, passed me on into the chimney and quietly fenced me up there with his great leg.
-- Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror.
-- He was gobbling mincemeat, meatbone, bread, cheese, and pork pie, all at once: staring distrustfully while he did so at the mist all round us, and often stopping--even stopping his jaws--to listen.
-- I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's.
-- I knew nothing then of the discoveries that are occasionally made of bodies buried in ancient times, which fall to powder in the moment of being distinctly seen; but, I have often thought since, that she must have looked as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 37THE DOG AND THE SPARROW shepherd's dog had a master who took no care of him, A but often let him suffer the greatest hunger.
-- On the way into the forest Hansel crumbled his in his pocket, and often stood still and threw a morsel on the ground.
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