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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How they laughed when the secret came out, never dream-ing how many love letters that little post office would hold in the years to come.
-- 'Two letters for Doctor Jo, a book, and a funny old hat, which covered the whole post office and stuck outside,' said Beth, laughing as she went into the study where Jo sat writ-ing.
-- So I got grandpa to say it was high time we did something, and off I pelted to the office yesterday, for the doctor looked sober, and Hannah most took my head off when I proposed a telegram.
-- 'No, but I read all her pieces, and I know a fellow who works in the office where this paper is printed.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
-- The oars were useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.
-- Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his.
-- By some writers this office is called a sinecure.
-- That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- The office was a front parlour, with a panelled wall.
-- Saying this, Mr. Brownlow looked around the office as if in search of some person who would afford him the required information.
-- The men in the office looked at each other, but no one dared to stir.
-- Although the presiding Genii in such an office as this, exercise a summary and arbitrary power over the liberties, the good name, the character, almost the lives, of Her Majesty's subjects, expecially of the poorer class; and although, within such walls, enough fantastic tricks are daily played to make the angels blind with weeping; they are closed to the public, save through the medium of the daily press.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclina-tion, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: 'My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world in your excellent judgement in all matters with-in the scope of your understanding; but permit me to say, that there must be a wide difference between the es-tablished forms of ceremony amongst the laity, and those which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the same time maintained.
-- Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduc-tion should be hers, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my great misfortune that in all these adventures I did not ship myself as a sailor; when, though I might indeed have worked a little harder than ordinary, yet at the same time I should have learnt the duty and office of a fore-mast man, and in time might have qualified myself for a mate or lieutenant, if not for a master.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.
-- Elinor's office was a painful one. She was going to remove what she really believed to be her sister's chief consolation, to give such particulars of Edward as she feared would ruin him for ever in her good opinion,-and to make Marianne, by a resemblance in their situations, which to HER fancy would seem strong, feel all her own disappointment over again.
-- She thanked him for it with all her heart, spoke of Edward's principles and disposition with that praise which she knew them to deserve; and promised to undertake the commission with pleasure, if it were really his wish to put off so agreeable an office to another.
-- It was an office in short, from which, unwilling to give Edward the pain of receiving an obligation from HER, she would have been very glad to be spared herself; but Colonel Brandon, on motives of equal delicacy, declining it likewise, still seemed so desirous of its being given through her means, that she would not on any account make farther opposition.
-- I am charged with a most agreeable office (breathing rather faster than usual as she spoke.)
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.
-- An office boy approached her.
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