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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the storm was so violent that I saw, what is not often seen, the master, the boatswain, and some others more sensible than the rest, at their prayers, and expecting every moment when the ship would go to the bottom.
-- Here I meditated nothing but my escape, and what meth-od I might take to effect it, but found no way that had the least probability in it; nothing presented to make the sup-position of it rational; for I had nobody to communicate it to that would embark with me - no fellow-slave, no English-man, Irishman, or Scotchman there but myself; so that for two years, though I often pleased myself with the imagi-nation, yet I never had the least encouraging prospect of putting it in practice.
-- Nay, I was coming into the very middle station, or upper degree of low life, which my father advised me to before, and which, if I resolved to go on with, I might as well have stayed at home, and never have fatigued myself in the world as I had done; and I used often to say to myself, I could have done this as well in England, among my friends, as have gone five thousand miles off to do it among strangers and savages, in a wilderness, and at such a distance as never to hear from any part of the world that had the least knowl-edge of me.
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
-- I went on the next year with great success in my plantation: I raised fifty great rolls of tobacco on my own ground, more than I had disposed of for necessaries among my neighbours; and these fifty rolls, being each of above a hundredweight, were well cured, and laid by against the return of the fleet from Lisbon: and now increasing in business and wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings be-yond my reach; such as are, indeed, often the ruin of the best heads in business.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of his sense and his goodness," continued Elinor, "no one can, I think, be in doubt, who has seen him often enough to engage him in unreserved conversation.
-- The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent.
-- These parlors are both too small for such parties of our friends as I hope to see often collected here; and I have some thoughts of throwing the passage into one of them with perhaps a part of the other, and so leave the remainder of that other for an entrance; this, with a new drawing room which may be easily added, and a bed-chamber and garret above, will make it a very snug little cottage.
-- In showing kindness to his cousins therefore he had the real satisfaction of a good heart; and in settling a family of females only in his cottage, he had all the satisfaction of a sportsman; for a sportsman, though he esteems only those of his sex who are sportsmen likewise, is not often desirous of encouraging their taste by admitting them to a residence within his own manor.
-- The private balls at the park then began; and parties on the water were made and accomplished as often as a showery October would allow.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye.
-- Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.
-- They often need young women as clerks."
-- Sick at heart and in body, she turned to the west, the direction of Minnie's flat, which she had now fixed in mind, and began that wearisome, baffled retreat which the seeker for employment at nightfall too often makes.
-- One of those forlorn impulses which often grow out of a fixed sense of defeat, the last sprouting of a baffled and uprooted growth of ideas, seized upon her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I just expected there'd be some-body lay- ing down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him.
-- It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, lay- ing on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed only a little kind of a low chuckle.
-- Often they do that and try to see how close they can come without touch-ing; sometimes the wheel bites off a sweep, and then the pilot sticks his head out and laughs, and thinks he's mighty smart.
-- But he said it warn't no use, nothing but to be dead and done with it all could do him any good; though he said it often made him feel easier and better for a while if people treated him ac-cording to his rights, and got down on one knee to speak to him, and always called him 'Your Majesty,' and waited on him first at meals, and didn't set down in his presence till he asked them.
-- He often done that.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is always hope for boys with hearts such as yours, though they may often be very mischievous.
-- Then, remembering how his father had often told him that a kind deed is never lost, he swam to Alidoro and, catching hold of his tail, dragged him to the shore.
-- A Marionette fish does not come very often to these seas.
-- That sea monster was no other than the enormous Shark, which has often been mentioned in this story and which, on account of its cruelty, had been nicknamed "The Attila of the Sea" by both fish and fishermen.
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