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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They drifted slowly toward the land, which rose in gray, hazy masses, on a background of sky illumined by the rising sun.
-- Some of the savages were sitting round the brazier; the others standing motionless, their black outlines relieved against the clear background of flame.
-- The sky would supply a black background for the blaze which Paganel was about to throw on it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of some-thing familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts.
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：
-- His head was immovable; nor did he betray the slightest consciousness that any were present, except when his haughty eye rolled toward the dusky forms of the warriors, who stalked in the background silent and sullen observers of the scene.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between the place occupied by the colonists and the other side of the immense bay, the shore was composed, first, of a tract of low land, bordered in the background by trees; then the shore became more irregular, projecting sharp points into the sea, and finally ended in the black rocks which, accumulated in picturesque disorder, formed Claw Cape.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives all that was over.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We might carve them in holly-wood, playing against a background of green leaves.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed alert in the foreground, but the background was like the Midlands atmosphere, haze, smoky mist.
-- So when he stared at Connie in his peculiar way, giving her his peculiar, precise information, she felt all the background of his mind filling up with mist, with nothingness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He patted children on the head like Sir Roger de Coverley going to church, he spoke to people in the background by their Christian names, he condescended to all present, and seemed for their consolation to walk encircled by the legend in golden characters, 'Be comforted, my people!Bear it!'
-- Maggy, now better dressed than of yore, though still faithful to the monstrous character of her cap, had been in the background from the first with open mouth and eyes, which staring and gaping features were not diminished in breadth by the untimely suppression of the subject.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentle-men, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only that, but the subtle insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night watches, his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of than Moby Dick.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt Hurstwood's passion as a delightful background to her own achievement, and she wondered what he would have to say.
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