following是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 下列的， 下述的， 其次的， 接着的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lines danced before his eyes, but he read it all and began eagerly seeking later additions in the following numbers.
-- Noticing stealthily that Avdotya Romanovna was following his words with close at-tention, Zossimov allowed himself to enlarge on this theme.
-- Razumihin said in conclusion, following Zossimov out.
-- He saw later that almost every word of the following conversation seemed to touch on some sore place and irritate it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was the following Sunday when I saw the gentlemanagain, or whether there was any greater lapse of time before hereappeared, I cannot recall.
-- I was timidly following her, when sheturned round at the parlour-door, in the dusk, and taking me inher embrace as she had been used to do, whispered me to love mynew father and be obedient to him.
-- It was my book thathe struck his desk with; and as I stood beside him, following his 96eye as it glanced round the room, I saw the boys all stop, somesuddenly surprised, some half afraid, and some sorry perhaps.
-- My stool was such a tower ofobservation, that as I watched him reading on again, after thisrapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with hisforefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin andpointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and mostuncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves; that 223they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly evertwinkled at all.
-- Consequently, I was not prepared, at seven o'clock next morning,to receive the following communication, dated half-past nine in theevening; a quarter of an hour after I had left him: 'My Dear YoungFriend, 'The die is cast- all is over.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, cer-emonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, 'that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossi-bility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them.'
-- It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency.
-- 248 EmmaChapter VIIEmma's very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a lit-tle shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut.
-- He had the air of congratulating himself on having brought such a woman to Highbury, as not even Miss Woodhouse could equal; and the greater part of her new acquaintance, disposed to commend, or not in the hab-it of judging, following the lead of Miss Bates's good-will, or taking it for granted that the bride must be as clever and as agreeable as she professed herself, were very well satisfied; so that Mrs. Elton's praise passed from one mouth to anoth-er as it ought to do, unimpeded by Miss Woodhouse, who readily continued her first contribution and talked with a good grace of her being 'very pleasant and very elegantly 340 Emmadressed.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, thank 'ee," said Gabriel, following her to the fireplace.
-- FARMERS A RULE AN EXCEPTIONThe first public evidence of Bathsheba's decision to be a farmer in her own person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market-day in the cornmarket at Casterbridge.
-- Oak stepped aside, and read the following in an unknown hand: DEAR FRIEND, I do not know your name, but I think these few lines will reach you, which I wrote to thank you for your kindness to me the night I left Weatherbury in a reckless way.
-- His eyes, she knew, were following her everywhere.
-- "That means matrimony," said Temperance Miller, following them out of sight with her eyes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Vicomtesse replied by an invitation to a ball for the following evening.
-- There he wrote the following letter to his mother:-- "My Dear Mother,--Can you nourish your child from your breast again?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the sea- sons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers she found ample scope for admiration and delight.
-- So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of sev-eral books treating of natural philosophy which he desired 43me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to com-mence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M. Waldman, a fellow profes-sor, would lecture upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted.
-- 66 FrankensteinChapter 6 lerval then put the following letter into my hands.
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