background是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 背景， 经历； 幕后，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：
-- Defarge stood, panting, against a background of eager eyes and open mouths, formed out-side the door; all those within the wine-shop had sprung to their feet.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Konstantin Levin the country was the background of life, that is of pleasures, endeavors, labor.
-- His ambitious plans had retreated into the background again, and feeling that he had got out of that circle of activity in which everything was definite, he had given himself entirely to his passion, and that passion was binding him more and more closely to her.
-- He saw in the foreground Pilate's irritated face and the serene face of Christ, and in the background the figures of Pilate's retinue and the face of John watching what was happening.
-- "How those figures in the background stand out!There you have technique," he said, addressing Golenishtchev, alluding to a conversation between them about Vronsky's despair of attaining this technique.
-- It seemed to him that in a normal development of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us only done harm, by throwing into the background the chief question calling for settlement--the question of the organization of agriculture.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The articles and editorials regarding him, in newspapers, house organs, and one rubber-goods periodical, were accompanied by photographs of himself, his buxom wife, and his eight bounding daughters, depicted in Canadian winter costumes among snow and icicles, in modest but easy athletic costumes, playing tennis in the backyard, and in costumes of no known genus whatever, frying bacon against a background of Northern Minnesota pines.
-- These unfortunate cases he treated, giving the phage to alternate patients, in the somewhat barren almshouse of the parish, a whitewashed cabin the meaner against its vaulting background of banyans and breadfruit trees.
-- Gosh, I've seen a dissecting-room myself!Why, you poor crab, of course I wouldn't expect you to have your name associated with it!You'd keep in the background and slip us all the dope, and get a lot of publicity for phage in general so the Dee-ah People would fall easier, and we'd pull all the strong-arm work."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had not guessed this, on the way to the coffee-house, I couldhardly have failed to know what was the matter when I followedhim into an upstairs room, and found Miss Murdstone there,supported by a background of sideboard, on which were severalinverted tumblers sustaining lemons, and two of those extraor-dinary boxes, all corners and flutings, for sticking knives and forksin, which, happily for mankind, are now obsolete.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joseph Poorgrass, in the background twitched, and his lips became dry with fear of some terrible consequences, as he saw Bathsheba summarily speaking, and Henery slinking off to a corner.
-- Then up comes Maryann; throws the loose locks into the middle of the fleece, rolls it up, and carries it into the background as three-and-a-half pounds of unadulterated warmth for the winter enjoyment of persons unknown and far away, who will, however, never experience the superlative comfort derivable from the wool as it here exists, new and pure before the unctuousness of its nature whilst in a living state has dried, stiffened, and been washed out rendering it just now as superior to anything woollen as cream is superior to milk-and-water.
-- His reason and his propensities had seldom any reciprocating influence, having separated by mutual consent long ago: thence it sometimes happened that, while his intentions were as honourable as could be wished, any particular deed formed a dark background which threw them into fine relief.
-- Nothing was said until, against a shady background of foliage, five white bars were visible, crossing their route a little way ahead.
-- Up against this dark background the west front of the church tower the only part of the edifice visible from the farm-house windows rose distinct and lustrous, the vane upon the summit bristling with rays.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
-- Victorine Taillefer's face; and her unvarying expression of sadness, like her embarrassed manner and pinched look, was in keeping with the general wretchedness of the establishment in the Rue Nueve-Saint-Genevieve, which forms a background to this picture; but her face was young, there was youthfulness in her voice and elasticity in her movements.
-- At the beginning of Eugene de Rastignac's second twelvemonth, this figure suddenly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and faces among which the law student was yet to live for another two years to come.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees thatwere solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
-- Some of the cold sense of bewilderment and disaster that had weighted her down since the Tarleton boys told hertheir gossip was pushed into the background of her mind, and in its place crept the fever that had possessed her for twoyears.
-- They put their own grief into the background in orderto divert her.
-- Andeverywhere amid the greenery, on flags and bunting, blazed the bright stars of the Confederacy on their background ofred and blue.
-- The ever-present war in the background lent a pleasant informality to social relations, an informality which olderpeople viewed with alarm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Keeping Miss Havisham in the background at a great distance, I still hinted at the possibility of my having competed with him in his prospects, and at the certainty of his possessing a generous soul, and being far above any mean distrusts, retaliations, or designs.
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