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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing angered and mortified me so much as the queen's dwarf; who being of the lowest stature that was ever in that country (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so insolent at seeing a creature so much be-neath him, that he would always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking with the lords or la-dies of the court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to wrestle, 130 Gulliver's Travelsand such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court pages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had seldom been there since her marriage.
-- 'You very seldom see your sister,' said Mrs. Gradgrind.
-- Hushed in expectancy, she kept her wary gaze upon the stairs; and seldom so much as darkly shook her right mitten (with her fist in it), at the figure coming down.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, it has seldom happened to me to sleep so well as I did on that particular night.
-- "And yet we are advancing at a rate seldom attained by a raft," I remarked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It very seldom happens that anybody of any pretensions any pretensions comes here without being presented to me.'
-- Yet there were two or three small airless houses at the entrance end of Mews Street, which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject hangers-on to a fashionable situation; and whenever one of these fearful little coops was to be let (which seldom happened, for they were in great request), the house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town, inhabited solely by the elite of the beau monde.
-- It is very seldom indeed that I can do that, because when I am not out at work, I am with my father, and even when I am out at work, I hurry home to him.
-- First, there was the subject seldom absent from his mind, the question, what he was to do henceforth in life; to what occupation he should devote himself, and in what direction he had best seek it.
-- Sometimes a magnate addressed him, to turn the stream of his own particular discussion towards him; but Mr Merdle seldom gave much attention to it, or did more than rouse himself from his calculations and pass the wine.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smoothhaired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a ;peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed.
-- Jo put her arm round her and, leaning cheek to cheek, read also, with the quiet expression so seldom seen on her rest-less face.
-- Down they went, feeling a trifle timid, for they seldom went to parties, and informal as this little gathering was, it was an event to them.
-- The poor things got no other lunch and were seldom home before two.
-- Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seldom seen such brawn in a man.
-- That's strange, thought I; but at any rate, since the harpoon stands yonder, and he seldom or never goes abroad without it, therefore he must be inside here, and no possible mistake.
-- Captain Peleg seldom or never went ashore, but sat in his wigwam keeping a sharp look-out upon the hands: Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores; and the men employed in the hold and on the rigging were working till long after night-fall.
-- He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
-- His oil is very superior, clear and fine; but there is little of it, and he is seldom hunted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity.
-- From this day, Oliver was seldom left alone; but was placed in almost constant communication with the two boys, who played the old game with the Jew every day: whether for their own improvement or Oliver's, Mr. Fagin best knew.
-- How should he, when their possessors so seldom know themselves?
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