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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Tom, be careful how you take it out," said Lord Glenarvan, "for bottles found in the sea often contain precious documents."
-- "The words SINK, ALAND, LOST are entire; SKIPP is evidently part of the word SKIPPER, and that's what they call ship captains often in England.
-- Lord Glenarvan knew quite well who he was now, for he had often heard Paganel spoken of, and was aware of his merits.
-- Paganel consulted his maps, and when he found any of those streams not marked, which often happened, all the fire of a geographer burned in his veins, and he would exclaim, with a charming air of vexation:"A river which hasn't a name is like having no civil standing.
-- Often some capricious winding would bring the column in two parallel lines, and the CATAPEZ could speak to his PEONS across a crevasse not two fathoms wide, though two hundred deep, which made between them an inseparable gulf.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the at-tempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.
-- Excuse my curiosity, but often in calling upon one friend one finds another.'
-- 'But that is the very thing which you have so often cau-tioned me not to do.'
-- I had often suffered under it, but never more so than during that long drive in the darkness.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His black-haired neighbour inspected these peculiarities, having nothing better to do, and at length remarked, with that rude enjoyment of the discomforts of others which the common classes so often show: 'Cold?'
-- 'Yes, indeed I had a good deal; and, would you believe it, I often wonder at myself for not having forgotten how to speak Russian?
-- Totski often came.
-- Lastly, he could not help being of opinion that Nastasia must be aware of Gania's love for her, and if he (Totski) mistook not, she had looked with some favour upon it, being often lonely, and rather tired of her present life.
-- I am very fond of them, though I often have to be scolding them; they are all as silly and mad as march hares.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Often did Menelaus receive him as a guest in our house when he came visiting us from Crete.
-- They that shun dishonour more often live than get killed, but they that fly save neither life nor name.'
-- And Jove answered, 'Set Minerva on to him, for she pun-ishes him more often than any one else does.'
-- He forgets how often I saved his son when he was worn out by the labours Eurystheus had laid on him.
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'Sir, you may sometimes blame him justly, for he is often remiss and unwilling to exert himself not indeed from sloth, nor yet heedlessness, but because he looks to me and expects me to take the lead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a pow-erfully-built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution.
-- I tried him with some other questions, but his chattering, prompt responses were as often as not quite at cross purposes with my question.
-- The human shape I can get now, al-most with ease, so that it is lithe and graceful, or thick and strong; but often there is trouble with the hands and the claws, painful things, that I dare not shape too freely.
-- The next most obvious deformity was in their faces, al-most all of which were prognathous, malformed about the ears, with large and protuberant noses, very furry or very bristly hair, and often strangely-coloured or strangely-placed eyes.
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