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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, to this very hour, I often puzzle myself with it.
-- Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared the natives.
-- Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning.
-- During these days of preparation, Queequeg and I often visited the craft, and as often I asked about Captain Ahab, and how he was, and when he was going to come on board his ship.
-- And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took the hint at once, for the fist had been too often impressed upon his body not to be deeply impressed upon his recollection.
-- Oliver had been too often subjected to the process to which the very expressive monosyllable just recorded bears reference, to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice, whoever he might be, would redeem his pledge, most honourably.
-- This is a very common and much-approved matrimonial course of treatment, which is often very effective.
-- London!--that great place!--nobody--not even Mr. Bumble--could ever find him there!He had often heard the old men in the workhouse, too, say that no lad of spirit need want in London; and that there were ways of living in that vast city, which those who had been bred up in country parts had no idea of.
-- If he begged at a farmer's house, ten to one but they threatened to set the dog on him; and when he showed his nose in a shop, they talked about the beadle--which brought Oliver's heart into his mouth,--very often the only thing he had there, for many hours together.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.'
-- 'His pride,' said Miss Lucas, 'does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it.
-- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
-- Do you often dance at St.
-- 'Mamma,' cried Lydia, 'my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.
-- She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
-- 'As to her,' pursued her father, 'the sudden loss of her little picture and playfellow, and her early association with that mystery in which we all have our equal share, but which is not often so forcibly presented to a child, has necessarily had some influence on her character.
-- We have been advised more than once when she has been a little ailing, to change climate and air for her as often as we could especially at about this time of her life and to keep her amused.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being still too young to go often to the theater, and not rich enough to afford any great outlay for private performances, the girls put their wits to work, and necessity being the mother of invention, made whatev-er they needed.
-- Beth had her troubles as well as the others, and not be-ing an angel but a very human little girl, she often 'wept a little weep' as Jo said, because she couldn't take music les-sons and have a fine piano.
-- Laurie colored up, but answered frankly, 'Why, you see I often hear you calling to one another, and when I'm alone up here, I can't help looking over at your house, you always seem to be having such good times.
-- Jo, dear, we all have our temp-tations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.
-- 'Yes, he often does, to all of us, for their house is full, and we are so fond of them.
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