reader是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 读者； 读本， 读物； (英国的) 大学讲师，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：
-- And now I come rapidly to the conclusion of this singu-lar narrative, in which I have tried to make the reader share those dark fears and vague surmises which clouded our lives so long and ended in so tragic a manner.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'H'm!Well, you may be a good reader of riddles but you are wrong THERE, at all events.
-- On the table beside which the prince had been invited to seat himself lay some books; one containing a marker where the reader had left off, was a volume of Solovieff's History.
-- As to Lizabetha Prokofievna, she, as the reader knows, belonged to an aristocratic family.
-- Well, I affirm that my reader is wrong again, for my convictions have nothing to do with my sentence of death.
-- But for all this, the question remains, what are the novelists to do with commonplace people, and how are they to be presented to the reader in such a form as to be in the least degree interesting?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- He let both of them lie, and went in pursuit of Abas and Polyidus, sons of the old reader of dreams Eurydamas: they never came back for him to read them any more dreams, for mighty Diomed made an end of them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days.
-- HE reader will perhaps understand that at first every-Tthing was so strange about me, and my position was the outcome of such unexpected adventures, that I had no dis- cernment of the relative strangeness of this or that thing.
-- Of course these creatures did not decline into such beasts as the reader has seen in zoological gardens, into ordinary bears, wolves, tigers, oxen, swine, and apes.
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：
-- INTRODUCTION It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the Iinformation necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes.
-- ' Shakespeare hile one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily pre-Wsented to the reader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the excla-mation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired of the youth who rode by her side: 'Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf?
-- 'We will not dispute concerning the excellence of the passage,' returned Heyward, smiling; for, as the reader has anticipated, it was he.
-- The third day from the capture of the fort was drawing to a close, but the business of the narrative must still detain the reader on the shores of the 'holy lake.'
-- The reader will perceive at once, in these respective char- acters, the Mohicans, and their white friend, the scout; together with Munro and Heyward.
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：
-- Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz belongs to that school of historians which believes that human nature is not only about as bad as it can be, but a great deal worse; and certainly the reader is safer of entertainment in their hands than in those of the writers who take a malicious pleasure in representing the great figures of romance as patterns of the domestic virtues.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- If so, let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey, or he would not be invited to proceed upon such an expedition.
-- Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochail workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court-of-law beadles, or even chapel-of-ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim.
-- Talking all the way, he followed Mr. Giles upstairs; and while he is going upstairs, the reader may be informed, that Mr. Losberne, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, known through a circuit of ten miles round as 'the doctor,' had grown fat, more from good-humour than from good living: and was as kind and hearty, and withal as eccentric an old bachelor, as will be found in five times that space, by any explorer alive.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways I took to raise this paste; what odd, misshapen, ugly things I made; how many of them fell in and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over-violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dried; and, in a word, how, after having laboured hard to find the clay - to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, and work it - I could not make above two large earthen ugly things (I cannot call them jars) in about two months' labour.
-- I believe the reader of this will not think it strange if I confess that these anxieties, these constant dangers I lived in, and the concern that was now upon me, put an end to all invention, and to all the contrivances that I had laid for my future accommodations and conveniences.
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