day是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 天， 一昼夜； 白昼， 白天； 时期， 时代，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted.
-- I had been cutting up some caper or other I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.
-- Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
-- It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.
-- We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness of being in bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
-- Poor Oliver!He little thought, as he lay sleeping in happy unconsciousness of all around him, that the board had that very day arrived at a decision which would exercise the most material influence over all his future fortunes.
-- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where th e boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example.
-- This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Aye, so it is,' cried her mother, 'and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.'
-- The girls grieved over such a number of la-dies, but were comforted the day before the ball by hearing, that instead of twelve he brought only six with him from London his five sisters and a cousin.
-- Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers' names and connections.
-- His answer to this sudden attack was delightful to their mother's ear: 'I am perfectly ready, I assure you, to keep my engage-ment; and when your sister is recovered, you shall, if you please, name the very day of the ball.
-- Chapter 10 he day passed much as the day before had done.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Marseilles that day there was a villainous prison.
-- 'Well!One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show her everything that we think can please her Mother (my usual name for Mrs Meagles) began to cry so, that it was necessary to take her out.
-- The day passed on; and again the wide stare stared itself out; and the hot night was on Marseilles; and through it the caravan of the morning, all dispersed, went their appointed ways.
-- And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You said the other day you thought we were a deal hap-pier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.'
-- The morning charities and ceremonies took so much time that the rest of the day was devoted to preparations for the evening festivities.
-- Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for what-ever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
-- She sang like a little lark about her work, never was too tired for Marmee and the girls, and day after day said hopefully to herself,' I know I'll get my music some time, if I'm good.'
-- It's been such a dismal day I'm really dying for some amusement,' said Meg, as they sat sewing together that evening.
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