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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He produced from his stores such an array of European dishes as is seldom seen in the Australian desert.
-- In this country where the air is dry and rain seldom falls, and the ground is parched, the trees have no need of wind or sun.
-- He seldom saw any one but the squatters and rovers.
-- He seldom showed himself, for which no one was sorry.
-- "Agreed," said McNabbs; "Paganel, you are a genius!and I, who seldom get up an enthusiasm, I answer for the success of your plan.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
-- Now, a private pen or ink-bottle is seldom allowed to be in such a state, and the combination of the two must be quite rare.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her im-patience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used.
-- Mrs. Bennet still continued to wonder and repine at his returning no more, and though a day seldom passed in which Elizabeth did not account for it clearly, there was lit-tle chance of her ever considering it with less perplexity.
-- In short, my dear aunt, I should be very sorry to be the means of making any of you unhappy; but since we see every day that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from enter-ing into engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempt-ed, or how am I even to know that it would be wisdom to resist?
-- He seldom appeared really ani-mated.
-- When to these recollections was added the development of Wickham's character, it may be easily believed that the happy spirits which had seldom been depressed before, were now so much affected as to make it almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We made signs of thanks to them, for we had nothing to make them amends; but an opportunity offered that very instant to oblige them wonderfully; for while we were lying by the shore came two mighty creatures, one pursuing the other (as we took it) with great fury from the mountains to-wards the sea; whether it was the male pursuing the female, or whether they were in sport or in rage, we could not tell, any more than we could tell whether it was usual or strange, but I believe it was the latter; because, in the first place, those ravenous creatures seldom appear but in the night; and, in the second place, we found the people terribly frighted, es-pecially the women.
-- This was not so difficult to me as the making the shovel: and yet this and the shovel, and the attempt which I made in vain to make a wheelbarrow, took me up no less than four days - I mean always excepting my morning walk with my gun, which I seldom failed, and very seldom failed also bringing home something fit to eat.
-- Even when I was afterwards, on due consider-ation, made sensible of my condition, how I was cast on this dreadful place, out of the reach of human kind, out of all hope of relief, or prospect of redemption, as soon as I saw but a prospect of living and that I should not starve and per-ish for hunger, all the sense of my affliction wore off; and Ibegan to be very easy, applied myself to the works proper for my preservation and supply, and was far enough from being afflicted at my condition, as a judgment from heav-en, or as the hand of God against me: these were thoughts which very seldom entered my head.
-- Thus, and in this disposition of mind, I began my third year; and though I have not given the reader the trouble of so particular an account of my works this year as the first, yet in general it may be observed that I was very seldom idle, but having regularly divided my time according to the sev-eral daily employments that were before me, such as: first, my duty to God, and the reading the Scriptures, which I constantly set apart some time for thrice every day; second-ly, the going abroad with my gun for food, which generally took me up three hours in every morning, when it did not rain; thirdly, the ordering, cutting, preserving, and cook-ing what I had killed or caught for my supply; these took up great part of the day.
-- And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruit-ful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that al-though there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was prob-able they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this time the subject was never revived by Elinor, and when entered on by Lucy, who seldom missed an opportunity of introducing it, and was particularly careful to inform her confidante, of her happiness whenever she received a letter from Edward, it was treated by the former with calmness and caution, and dismissed as soon as civility would allow; for she felt such conversations to be an indulgence which Lucy did not deserve, and which were dangerous to herself.
-- Their claims to the notice of Mrs. John Dashwood, as the nieces of the gentleman who for many years had had the care of her brother, might not have done much, however, towards procuring them seats at her table; but as Lady Middleton's guests they must be welcome; and Lucy, who had long wanted to be personally known to the family, to have a nearer view of their characters and her own difficulties, and to have an opportunity of endeavouring to please them, had seldom been happier in her life, than she was on receiving Mrs. John Dashwood's card.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could see that the Hansons seldom or never had any company.
-- She felt, though she seldom expressed them, sad thoughts upon this score.
-- In times of panic and unusual hardships there were seldom more than three hundred.
-- In times of prosperity, when little is heard of the unemployed, there were seldom less.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even though a boy may be very unhappy, he very seldom loses sleep over his worries.
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