vacancy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 空缺， 空位，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：
-- Gradually the expression of Tamenund's features changed, and losing their vacancy in admiration, they lighted with a portion of that intelligence which a century before had been wont to communicate his youthful fire to the extensive bands of the Delawares.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she cameinto a vacancy in my heart, which closed upon her, and I felttowards her something I have never felt for any other humanbeing.
-- I casually mentioned to MissTrotwood, when I had the pleasure of an interview with her theother day,'- with another inclination of his body- Punch again-'that there was a vacancy here.
-- Our residence at Canterbury, andour local connection, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantageof any vacancy that may arise in the cathedral corps.'
-- The shock of such an event happeningso suddenly, and happening to one with whom I had been in anyrespect at variance- the appalling vacancy in the room he hadoccupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait forhim, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost- theindefinable impossibility of separating him from the place, andfeeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in- the lazyhush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish withwhich our people talked about it, and other people came in and outall day, and gorged themselves with the subject- this is easilyintelligible to any one.
-- But there was no vacancy for a tenor in the venerablePile for which this city is so justly eminent; and he has- in short, hehas contracted a habit of singing in public-houses, rather than insacred edifices.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.
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：
-- His presence was so quiet, almost like a vacancy in the corporate air.
-- She could see the grey, awful semi-consciousness of mere pain and dissolution coming over him again, the torture coming into the vacancy of his darkened eyes.
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：
-- Yet still in his face one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and down between this was the sea.
-- At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
-- All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were hoisting him thither, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the air.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentlemen came; and she thought he looked as if he would have answered her hopes; but, alas!the ladies had crowded round the table, where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee, in so close a con-federacy that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She little knew the trivial authority of this individual, or that had there been a vacancy an actor would have been sent on from New York to fill it.
-- Otherwise, they will be considered discharged, and every vacancy will be filled by a new man as soon as his services can be secured.
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