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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was often his delight, after his school was dis-missed in the afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes.
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- Under cover of his character of sing-ing-master, he made frequent visits at the farmhouse; not that he had anything to apprehend from the meddlesome interference of parents, which is so often a stumbling-block in the path of lovers.
-- Some men-tion was made also of the woman in white, that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, having perished there in the snow.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she doesn't often have people to dinner.
-- It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its possession: for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise their dexterity.
-- I looked in often on the Stroeves, and sometimes shared their modest fare.
-- It often exasperated me to see him.
-- He had often spoken to me of the silent town, somewhere up in the north of Holland, where his parents still lived.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, at the mouth of the watercourse and above the reach of the high tide, the convulsions of nature had formed, not a grotto, but a pile of enormous rocks, such as are often met with in granite countries and which bear the name of "Chimneys."
-- Herbert often glided among the broken stumps with the agility of a young cat, and disappeared in the underwood.
-- Savages often kindle wood by means of rapid rubbing.
-- The slope often presented such an angle that they slipped when the stones worn by the air did not give a sufficient support.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Ikki the Porcupine had told him; but he said to Mowgli when they were deep in the jungle, as the boy lay with his head on Bagheera's beautiful black skin, 'Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy?'
-- Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (and indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.
-- Of course, in playing together, the cubs had often nipped Mowgli harder than they intended, and there were white scars all over his arms and legs.
-- 'I've often thought we should be much happier if we hauled out at Otter Island instead of this crowded place,' said Matkah.
-- The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence the click of one bamboo stem against the other, the rustle of something alive in the undergrowth, the scratch and squawk of a half-waked bird (birds are awake in the night much more often than we imagine), and the fall of water ever so far away.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the husbandman shrank back from the dangerous passes, within the safer boundaries of the more ancient set-tlements, armies larger than those that had often disposed of the scepters of the mother countries, were seen to bury themselves in these forests, whence they rarely returned but in skeleton bands, that were haggard with care or dejected by defeat.
-- Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me avow my faith in the tones of the human voice!'
-- 'Graves bring solemn feelings over the mind,' returned the scout, a good deal touched at the calm suffering of his companion; 'and they often aid a man in his good - intentions; though, for myself, I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to bleach in the woods, or to be torn asunder by the wolves.
-- It was an unthoughtful act in a man who has so often slept with the war-whoop ringing in the air, to let off his piece within sound of an ambushment!But then it was a natural temp-tation!
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
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