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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between ourselves there are pretty clear signs that this will not be wanting if the lady is will-ing, for I have seldom seen a man more infatuated with a woman than he is with our beautiful neighbour, Miss Sta-pleton.
-- 'But if you saw him so seldom and wrote so seldom, how did he know enough about your affairs to be able to help you, as you say that he has done?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And also, his luck seldom failed him, even at cards, for which he had a passion that he did not attempt to con-ceal.
-- 'How strange that criminals seldom swoon at such a mo-ment!On the contrary, the brain is especially active, and works incessantly probably hard, hard, hard like an en-gine at full pressure.
-- It is very seldom that anything happens to break the harmony of the proceedings, though, of course, accidents will happen everywhere.
-- In real life, young fellows seldom jump out of the window just before their weddings, because such a feat, not to speak of its other aspects, must be a decidedly unpleasant mode of escape; and yet there are plenty of bridegrooms, intelligent fellows too, who would be ready to confess themselves Podkoleosins in the depths of their consciousness, just before marriage.
-- 'You seem to be very religious,' he continued, kindly, ad-dressing the prince,' which is a thing one meets so seldom nowadays among young people.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They belonged to the tree-tops, and as beasts very seldom look up, there was no occasion for the monkeys and the Jungle-People to cross each other's path.
-- Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge.
-- They all knew where that place was, but few of the Jungle People ever went there, because what they called the Cold Lairs was an old deserted city, lost and buried in the jun-gle, and beasts seldom use a place that men have once used.
-- They only grunt, and the buffaloes very seldom say anything, but get down into the muddy pools one after another, and work their way into the mud till only their noses and staring china-blue eyes show above the sur-face, and then they lie like logs.
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：
-- On the other hand, the quick, roving eye of the scout seldom rested.
-- 'I tell you, Uncas,' said the former, as Heyward joined them, 'you are wasteful of your powder, and the kick of the rifle disconcerts your aim!Little powder, light lead, and a long arm, seldom fail of bringing the death screech from a Mingo!At least, such has been my experience with the crea-tur's.
-- Immediately conscious how unavailing any struggle against such an overwhelming force must prove, he submit-ted to his fate, encouraging his gentle companions by a few low and tender assurances, that the natives seldom failed to threaten more than they performed.
-- As the thoughts of those who are in misery seldom slumber, and the invention is never more lively than when it is stimulated by hope, however feeble and remote, he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seduc-ing him from his duty to the king.
-- He then signed to Heyward to assist the sisters into the saddles, for he seldom deigned to use the English tongue, unless urged by some motive of more than usual moment.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
-- Such was the ap-pearance of Ichabod and his steed as they shambled out of the gate of Hans Van Ripper, and it was altogether such an apparition as is seldom to be met with in broad daylight.
-- This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-established Dutch communities.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I will allow that the critic who has not a practical knowledge of technique is seldom able to say anything on the subject of real value, and my ignorance of painting is extreme.
-- The men were seldom eccentric in appearance.
-- I had the feeling that he worked on a canvas with all the force of his violent personality, oblivious of everything in his effort to get what he saw with the mind's eye; and then, having finished, not the picture perhaps, for I had an idea that he seldom brought anything to completion, but the passion that fired him, he lost all care for it.
-- They seldom put on airs, and the offer of a drink is a sure way to their hearts.
-- Tough Bill's fare was seldom extravagant, and you rose from his table almost as hungry as you sat down, but for some days they had good reason to regret it.
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