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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- It is seldom that a person with much animal spirit does not feel that the fact of his life being his own is the one qualification which singles it out as a more hopeful life than that of others who may actually resemble him in every particular.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is still standing in the lower end of the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, just where the road slopes so sharply down to the Rue de l'Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep.
-- He had deliberately made his apparent good-nature, his unfailing readiness to oblige, and his high spirits into a barrier between himself and the rest of them, but not seldom he gave glimpses of appalling depths of character.
-- The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fresh air and bright sun seldom failed to restore me to some degree of compo-sure, and on my return I met the salutations of my friends with a readier smile and a more cheerful heart.
-- He felt as if he had been transported to fairy-land and enjoyed a happiness seldom tasted by man.
-- It is true, he seldom came to see me, for although he ardently desired to relieve the sufferings of every human creature, he did not wish to be present at the agonies and miserable ravings of a murderer.
-- Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring *maladie du pays*, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
-- In other places human beings were seldom seen, and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my path.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- They carried on their farm operations withmules and they had no surplus of these, seldom more than four.
-- They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their businessgenerally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of theirreach.
-- And he was seldom tactful in doingit.
-- but once, it'sselling you I'll be doing, for they are words I seldom say meself."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, felons were not lodged and fed better than soldiers (to say nothing of paupers), and seldom set fire to their prisons with the excusable object of improving the flavor of their soup.
-- That the place could possibly be, without her, was something my mind seemed unable to compass; and whereas she had seldom or never been in my thoughts of late, I had now the strangest ideas that she was coming towards me in the street, or that she would presently knock at the door.
-- They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed.
-- But when the defence come on, then I see the plan plainer; for, says the counsellor for Compeyson, 'My lord and gentlemen, here you has afore you, side by side, two persons as your eyes can separate wide; one, the younger, well brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the elder, ill brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the younger, seldom if ever seen in these here transactions, and only suspected; t'other, the elder, always seen in 'em and always wi' his guilt brought home.
-- As it seldom happened that I came in at that Whitefriars gate after the Temple was closed, and as I was very muddy and weary, I did not take it ill that the night-porter examined me with much attention as he held the gate a little way open for me to pass in.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water- mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consult-ing it.
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- When the girls are twelve years old, which among them is the marriageable age, their par-ents or guardians take them home, with great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and seldom without tears of the young lady and her companions.
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