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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But before starting he confided an important missive to a swifter agent than himself, and a few minutes afterward it flashed along the electric wire to London, to appear next day in the Times and Morning Chronicle in the following words: "For information respecting the fate of the three-mast vessel BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, Captain Grant, apply to Lord Glenarvan, Malcolm Castle, Luss, Dumbartonshire, Scotland."
-- A telegram next day gave hope of his speedy return, but in the evening a letter apprised her of the difficulties his proposition had met with, and the morning after brought another, in which he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Admiralty.
-- Lady Helena began to get anxious as the day wore on.
-- "My poor child, there is but a faint hope; but with the help of almighty Heaven it is just possible you may one day see your father once more."
-- Possibly he might have thought that some day they would achieve their independence, as the United States did—an example doubtless to be followed eventually by Australia and India.
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：
-- On the 4th of May Sir Charles had declared his in-tention of starting next day for London, and had ordered Barrymore to prepare his luggage.
-- The day had been wet, and Sir Charles's foot-marks were easily traced down the Alley.
-- I therefore spent the day at my club and did not return to Baker Street until evening.
-- If they had followed him the first day I argued that they would follow him also the second.
-- You will then learn in possibly twenty cases out of the twenty-three that the waste of the day be-fore has been burned or removed.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows.
-- When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third- class carriages found themselves opposite each other.
-- 'And what time of day does the lady receive?'
-- But Pavli-cheff had died two or three years since, and Schneider had himself supported the young fellow, from that day to this, at his own expense.
-- 'You remember your mother, Nina Alexandrovna, that day she came and sat here and groaned-and when I asked her what was the matter, she says, 'Oh, it's such a DISHONOUR to us!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
-- First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning.
-- For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them.
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
-- In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only light in the room was the red glow from the fire which lit his eyes like adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in darkness and the scanty vestiges of the day that came in through the open door.
-- CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village.
-- Next day his luggage arrived through the slush and very remarkable luggage it was.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day Fire Eater called Pinocchio aside and asked him: "What is your father's name?"
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