random是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 随便, 无目的的, 任意的，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said everybody, fencing at random and hitting at nothing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, strange to say, although she had so made up her mind not to be influenced by her father's views, not to let him into her inmost sanctuary, she felt that the heavenly image of Madame Stahl, which she had carried for a whole month in her heart, had vanished, never to return, just as the fantastic figure made up of some clothes thrown down at random vanishes when one sees that it is only some garment lying there.
-- He too was silent for some time, and then began speaking in a frigid, less shrill voice, emphasizing random words that had no significance.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mikolka stood on one side and began dealing random blows with the crow-bar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have sustained my own idea ofRoderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
-- ), and thoughthow, when Roderick Random was in a debtors' prison, there was aman there with nothing on him but an old rug, the turnkey swambefore my dimmed eyes and my beating heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As carrier-pigeons, on being first let loose in a strange place, beat the air at random for a short time before darting off towards the spot for which they are designed, so did the Marchioness flutter round and round until she believed herself in safety, and then bear swiftly down upon the port for which she was bound.
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.
-- George, the elder, exhibited an ebony-tipped nose, surrounded by a narrow margin of pink flesh, and a coat marked in random splotches approximating in colour to white and slaty grey; but the grey, after years of sun and rain, had been scorched and washed out of the more prominent locks, leaving them of a reddish-brown, as if the blue component of the grey had faded, like the indigo from the same kind of colour in Turner's pictures.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had stolen back to the cabin, slipped once more into my shoes, and laid my hand at random on a bottle of wine, and now, with this for an excuse, I made my reappearance on the deck.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, they sometimes went faster than they liked, and had some difficulty in keeping their feet; but hope gave them strength, for it was not at random that they made their way along the shore.
-- Open at random and read the first verse which, your eye falls upon.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has discovered, at the top of her voice, that her husband has been 'keeping' women down at the cottage, and has made a few random shots at naming the women.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are not acquainted, then,' said Arthur, hazarding a random question, 'with any of her family?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.
-- After much prolonged sauntering and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three ships up for three-years' voyages The Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the Pequod.
-- But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters might be naught.
-- Besides all the other phenomena which the exterior of the Sperm Whale presents, he not seldom displays the back, and more especially his flanks, effaced in great part of the regular linear appearance, by reason of numerous rude scratches, altogether of an irregular, random aspect.
-- After many similar hair-breadth escapes, we at last swiftly glided into what had just been one of the outer circles, but now crossed by random whales, all violently making for one centre.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had not the slightest connection with anything intended on his part, and was spoken at random before he had given it a moment's serious thought.
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