occasional是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 偶然的， 非经常的， 特殊场合的； 临时的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside Tellson's never by any means in it, unless called in was an odd-job-man, an occasional porter and messenger, who served as the live sign of the house.
-- A struggle was evidently in his face; a struggle with that occasional look which had a tendency in it to dark doubt and dread.
-- Partly on this account, and partly to avoid a domestic spy, they kept no servant; the cit-izen and citizeness who acted as porters at the courtyard gate, rendered them occasional service; and Jerry (almost wholly transferred to them by Mr. Lorry) had become their daily retainer, and had his bed there every night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing occurred during the night to disturb the slumberers, although occasional growls from panthers and chatterings of monkeys broke the silence; the more formidable beasts made no cries or hostile demonstration against the occupants of the bungalow.
-- Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had been on board, had so shrewdly managed with his banknotes that the sailors and stokers, who were only an occasional crew, and were not on the best terms with the captain, went over to him in a body.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He longed for the girl Leora; she stirred him, and with gay frank passion she answered him; but to another, sexless Leora he talked more honestly than to Gottlieb or his own worried self, while with her boyish nod or an occasional word she encouraged him to confidence in his evolving ambition and disdains.
-- He stole occasional evenings for original research or for peering into the stirring worlds of French and German bacteriological publications; he went proudly now and then to Gottlieb's cottage where, against rain-smeared brown wallpaper, were Blake drawings and a signed portrait of Koch.
-- He washed his own linen in the bath-tub and, except for occasional fiercely delightful yieldings, he did not smoke.
-- There was small excuse for Martin's occasional brutality in showing his annoyance but, now that he was fulfilled in Leora and quite thoroughly and selfishly careless as to what hungry need others might have of himself, now that he was in a rut of industry and satisfied companionship, he was bored by Clif's unchanging flood of heavy humor.
-- He could recall nothing save the philosophy of Max Gottlieb, occasional scoldings of Angus Duer, one out of ten among Madeline Fox's digressions, and the councils of Dad Silva which was above the level of Alec Ingleblad's barber-shop.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Raskolnikov was silent, keeping his eyes fixed on Sonia, except for an occasional rapid glance at Luzhin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That there werenow occasional sounds of feet and voices overhead which heinferred the cotton did not exclude, from the circumstance of hisevidently being clutched by the lady as a victim on whom toexpend her superabundant agitation when the sounds wereloudest.
-- I resorted to Traddles for advice, whosuggested that he should dictate speeches to me, at a pace, andwith occasional stoppages, adapted to my weakness.
-- He has occasional employment on the samenewspaper, in getting up the facts of dry subjects, to be writtenabout and embellished by more fertile minds.
-- 'Sir,' he rejoined, with an occasional separation andreunion of those delicate tips, 'my answer must be qualified; 621because, to betray Mr. James's confidence to his mother, and tobetray it to you, are two different actions.
-- 'It has been my lot,' he observed, 'to meet, in thediversified panorama of human existence, with an occasional oasis,but never with one so green, so gushing, as the present!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
-- 'They are blended,' said he, 'I acknowledge; and, were she prosperous, I could allow much for the occasional preva-lence of the ridiculous over the good.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution a fine January morning, when there was just enough blue sky visible to make cheerfully-disposed people wish for more, and an occasional gleam of silvery sunshine, Oak put the lamb into a respectable Sunday basket, and stalked across the fields to the house of Mrs. Hurst, the aunt George, the dog walking behind, with a countenance of great concern at the serious turn pastoral affairs seemed to be taking.
-- It came from the old man in the background, whose offensiveness and spiteful ways were barely atoned for by the occasional chuckle he contributed to general laughs.
-- The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her visual familiarity, oral strangeness.
-- Above each of these a still keener vision suggested a brown forehead and two staring though not unfriendly eyes, and above all a pair of whitish crescent-shaped horns like two particularly new moons, an occasional stolid "moo!"
-- It was with gloom he considered on landing at Liverpool that if he were to go home his reception would be of a kind very unpleasant to contemplate; for what Troy had in the way of emotion was an occasional fitful sentiment which sometimes caused him as much inconvenience as emotion of a strong and healthy kind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this, Charles and Melanie could only infer that she took a profound pleasure in this occasional excitement, theonly excitement in her sheltered life.
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