office是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 办公室， 办事处； 职务， 公职； 部， 局， 处，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since that day, she only saw him formally, once a month, when Uncle Peter drove her to his office to get thehousekeeping money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nor giv' no one the office to follow you?"
-- You can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight to me.
-- When he had got his shilling, and had in course of time completed the ascent to his box, and had got away (which appeared to relieve his mind), I went into the front office with my little portmanteau in my hand and asked, Was Mr. Jaggers at home?
-- I dropped into the office to ask if Mr. Jaggers had come in yet, and I found he had not, and I strolled out again.
-- The window indicated was the office window.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While she was do-ing this kind office one of her cheeses fell out of the basket, and rolled down the hill.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to enter-tain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.
-- He desired the queen to order that a particular care should be taken of me; and was of opinion that Glumdalclitch should still continue in her office of tending me, because he observed we had a great affection for each other.
-- This was always the office of some grave trusty servant, in whom I could confide, whether I attended the king and queen in their progresses, or were disposed to see the gardens, or pay a visit to some great lady or minister of state in the court, when Glumdalclitch happened to be out of order; for I soon began to be known and esteemed 137among the greatest officers, I suppose more upon account of their majesties' favour, than any merit of my own.
-- Another time, one of the servants, whose office it was to fill my trough every third day with fresh water, was so care-less as to let a huge frog (not perceiving it) slip out of his pail.
-- This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade inEurope.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the rest, she knew that after office-hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow.
-- He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage.
-- 'My friends,' said he, 'by virtue o' my office as your president, I askes o' our friend Slackbridge, who may be a little over hetter in this business, to take his seat, whiles this man Stephen Blackpool is heern.
-- 'This is a device to keep him out of the way,' said Mrs. Sparsit, starting from the dull office window whence she had watched him last.
-- But, after dinner, when the day turned to twilight, and the twilight turned to night, and still no communication was made to him, it began to be as he expressed it, 'like the Holy Office and slow torture.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The presence of one so learned as yourself, would no doubt have been most useful, but the duties of your office and profession before everything."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wits would perform the office of introduction with overcharged pomp and politeness, but they could not easily overstep his sense of its gravity.
-- He put this second one so perseveringly that a stool and twelve shillings a week were at last found for Tip in the office of an attorney in a great National Palladium called the Palace Court; at that time one of a considerable list of everlasting bulwarks to the dignity and safety of Albion, whose places know them no more.
-- Containing the whole Science of GovernmentThe Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government.
-- Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.
-- Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be what it was.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
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