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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I got a message from the head office that a gent at this -address had been inquiring for 2704,' said he.
-- 'And ask at the station office if there is a message for me.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It frightened my aunt so that she sent it back to the office unopened, and there it's been ever since!
-- It had struck him as long ago as last spring that he ought to be finding a good match for Nas-tasia; for instance, some respectable and reasonable young fellow serving in a government office in another part of the country.
-- In a word he had been driven about from office to office for five months and had spent every- farthing he had; his wife's last rags had just been pawned; and meanwhile a child had been born to them and and today I have a final refusal to my petition, and I have hardly acrumb of bread left I have nothing left; my wife has had a baby lately and I-I ' 'He sprang up from his chair and turned away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hurried out with my three books of notes, my cheque-book the tramp has them now and directed them from the nearest Post Office to a house of call for letters and parcels in Great Portland Street.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
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：
-- Heyward prepared to comply, though with strong dis-gust at the nature of the office he was compelled to execute.
-- On his left, the withes which bound her to a pine, performed that office for Alice which her trembling limbs refused, and alone kept her fragile form from sinking.
-- In this office he was now joined by Chingachgook, who found his own, as well as the rifle of his son, among the arms.
-- The arrival of flags to cover the messengers of summons, had occurred so often of late, that when Heyward first threw his careless glance on this group, he expected to see another of the officers of the enemy, charged with a similar office but the instant he recognized the tall person and still sturdy though down-cast features of his friend, the woodsman, he started with surprise, and turned to descend from the bastion into the bosom of the work.
-- As he held the office of directing its course, his resolution was suf- ficiently indicated by the movement.
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：
-- The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
-- She had made a success of her business, and now had an office in Chancery Lane; she did little typing herself, but spent her time correcting the work of the four girls she employed.
-- Strickland, a boy fresh from school, went into a broker's office without any feeling of distaste.
-- Captain Nichols noticed Strickland for his size and his singular appearance among the crowd that waited for the doors to open; they waited listlessly, some walking to and fro, some leaning against the wall, and others seated on the curb with their feet in the gutter; and when they filed into the office he heard the monk who read his papers address him in English.
-- And I've known men who came here to be in an office for a year, and they cursed the place, and when they went away they took their dying oath they'd hang themselves before they came back again, and in six months you'd see them land once more, and they'd tell you they couldn't live anywhere else."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kit entered the office in a great tremor, for he was not used to going among strange ladies and gentlemen, and the tin boxes and bundles of dusty papers had in his eyes an awful and venerable air.
-- By these means Mr Chuckster was pushed and hustled to the office again, in a most inglorious manner, and arrived in a state of great exhaustion and discomfiture.
-- But the tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling from his pupils it was plain.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went foolishly out, the office boy deferentially swinging the door for her, and gladly sank into the obscuring crowd.
-- He had a little office in the place, set off in polished cherry and grill-work, where he kept, in a roll-top desk, the rather simple accounts of the place-- supplies ordered and needed.
-- addressed to the fifteen-dollar-a-week clerks and office attaches, who, by long frequenting of the place, became aware of his position, to the "Why, old man, how are you?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We judged we could make miles enough that night to get out of the reach of the powwow we reckoned the duke's work in the printing office was going to make in that little town; then we could boom right along if we wanted to.
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