seldom是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 很少， 不常，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christ-mas song it had been a very old song when he was a boy and from time to time they all joined in the chorus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madame Defarge was a stout wom-an of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed, a steady face, strong features, and great composure of man-ner.
-- Even then, I did exercises for other boys, and seldom did my own.
-- For scores of years gone by, Monseigneur had squeezed it and wrung it, and had seldom graced it with his presence except for the pleasures of the chase now, found in hunting the people; now, found in hunting the beasts, for whose preservation Monseigneur made edifying spaces of barbarous and barren wilderness.
-- And we seldom have a child there.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I jumped the highest; but in this world merit seldom meets its reward.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one another not seldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain externally on friendly terms, despise each other to such a degree that they cannot even take each other seriously, and cannot even be offended by each other.
-- This was not as it should be, but with the laborers Levin seldom lost his temper.
-- Being a man of very warm heart, he was seldom angry; but when he was angry, and when his chin quivered, then, as Alexander Vronsky knew, he was dangerous.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship's chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck, he passed through the memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold indifference; did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old historians always spoke of with horror, and upon which the ancient navigators never ventured without propitiating the gods by ample sacrifices.
-- It gradually annexed province after province, purchasing them of the native chiefs, whom it seldom paid, and appointed the governor-general and his subordinates, civil and military.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- Theyjoked freely with one another, but seldom with him.
-- He very seldom spoke to her, and never to me.
-- The days passed pretty much as they had passed before, except- itwas a great exception- that little Em'ly and I seldom wandered onthe beach now.
-- He very seldom said anything; but would sit by the fire inmuch the same attitude as he sat in his cart, and stare heavily atPeggotty, who was opposite.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers.
-- But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home.'
-- She had had many a hint from Mr. Knightley and some from her own heart, as to her deficiency but none were equal to counteract the persuasion of its being very disagreeable, a waste of time tiresome women and all the horror of being in danger of falling in with the second-rate and third-rate of Highbury, who were calling on them 186 Emmafor ever, and therefore she seldom went near them.
-- 'So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears!So seldom that a letter, among the thousands that are constant-ly passing about the kingdom, is even carried wrong and not one in a million, I suppose, actually lost!And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder.'
-- But you, (turning to Mr. Knightley,) who know how very, very seldom I am ever two hours from Hartfield, why you should foresee such a se-ries of dissipation for me, I cannot imagine.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
-- But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
-- It must be added, however, that time was very seldom gained.
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