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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy "The ribs and terrors in the whale,Arched over me a dismal gloom,While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,And lift me deepening down to doom.
-- Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.
-- But we had not gone perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing to turn a corner, and looking back as I did so, who should be seen but Elijah following us, though at a distance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- inquired Bumble, following with his eyes the interesting process of mixing.
-- The very first paragraph upon which Mr. Bumble's eye rested, was the following advertisement.
-- asked the doctor, following the young lady to the sideboard.
-- Closely following Mr. Losberne, the two officers ascended to Oliver's bedroom; Mr. Giles preceding the party, with a lighted candle.
-- said Mr. Bumble, not quite following the stranger's excited description.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was then disclosed in the following manner.
-- Mr. Bingley was obliged to be in town the following day, and, consequently, unable to accept the honour of their invitation, etc.
-- Breakfast was scarcely over when a servant from Netherfield brought the following note for Elizabeth: 'MY DEAREST LIZZY, 'I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.
-- But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters re-maining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before.
-- The communication excited many professions of con-cern; and enough was said of wishing them to stay at least till the following day to work on Jane; and till the morrow their going was deferred.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had a strange uneasi-ness in my mind to go down to the point of the island where, as I have said in my last ramble, I went up the hill to see how the shore lay, and how the current set, that I might see what I had to do: this inclination increased upon me every day, and at length I resolved to travel thither by land, following the edge of the shore.
-- At which he smiled, and said - 'Yes, yes, we always fight the better;' that is, he meant always get the better in fight; and so we began the following discourse:- MASTER.
-- With this resolution I entered the wood, and, with all possible wariness and silence, Friday following close at my heels, I marched till I came to the skirts of the wood on the side which was next to them, only that one corner of the wood lay between me and them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A party was formed this evening for going on the following day to see a very fine place about twelve miles from Barton, belonging to a brother-in-law of Colonel Brandon, without whose interest it could not be seen, as the proprietor, who was then abroad, had left strict orders on that head.
-- CHAPTER 27"If this open weather holds much longer," said Mrs. Jennings, when they met at breakfast the following morning, "Sir John will not like leaving Barton next week; 'tis a sad thing for sportsmen to lose a day's pleasure.
-- It was from Lady Middleton, announcing their arrival in Conduit Street the night before, and requesting the company of her mother and cousins the following evening.
-- With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.
-- Before her removing from Norland, Elinor had painted a very pretty pair of screens for her sister-in-law, which being now just mounted and brought home, ornamented her present drawing room; and these screens, catching the eye of John Dashwood on his following the other gentlemen into the room, were officiously handed by him to Colonel Brandon for his admiration.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before following her in her round of seeking, let us look at the sphere in which her future was to lie.
-- Drouet was reminded of his promise a day or two later by the receipt of a letter announcing that the first rehearsal was set for the following Friday evening, and urging him to kindly forward the young lady's address at once, in order that the part might be delivered to her.
-- To those who have never experienced such a mental dilemma, the following will appeal on the simple ground of revelation.
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