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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will always find him at the following address:Chapter XXXIVBut though I was no less convinced than Stroeve that the connection between Strickland and Blanche would end disastrously, I did not expect the issue to take the tragic form it did.
-- They moved quickly, following my smallest gesture, and they gave him the look of a very thorough rogue.
-- They made one another's acquaintance during the latter part of the winter following my last meeting with Strickland in Paris.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, notwithstanding their efforts, the balloon still fell, and at the same time shifted with the greatest rapidity, following the direction of the wind, that is to say, from the northeast to the southwest.
-- The castaways accordingly returned, following the opposite side of the promontory, over a soil equally sandy and rugged.
-- However, one of the castaways, following the impulse of his heart, immediately threw himself into the current, without consulting his companions, without saying a single word.
-- They then returned, following the southern crest of the granite platform, bordered by a long fringe of jagged rocks, of the most whimsical shapes.
-- The two hunters now advanced among the long grass, following the bank.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could see that twice or thrice he looked back as if to ascertain if I were still watching him, or perhaps to assure himself that I was not following at a distance.
-- He remained silent, following her with his eyes, until she had gained her little room and closed the door; and then turning to the dwarf, said abruptly,'Harkee, Mr ''Meaning me?'
-- The boy sulkily complied, muttering at first, but desisting when he looked round and saw that Quilp was following him with a steady look.
-- In its disengaged times, the tobacconist had announced it in his window as 'apartments' for a single gentleman, and Mr Swiveller, following up the hint, never failed to speak of it as his rooms, his lodgings, or his chambers, conveying to his hearers a notion of indefinite space, and leaving their imaginations to wander through long suites of lofty halls, at pleasure.
-- said Mr Cheggs, following him into a corner.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment he was occupied with the following enigmatical proposition: If the number of steps in the distance between the cabinet-door and the arm-chair will divide by three without a remainder, then the new regimen will cure him; but if it does not so divide, then it will not.
-- That on the following morning Lubka (Katherine Maslova) sold to her mistress, Rosanova, a diamond ring belonging to Smelkoff, said ring she alleged to have been presented to her by said Smelkoff.
-- His life on the estate of his aunts was ordered in the following way: He rose very early, some times at three o'clock, and till sunrise bathed in the river under a hill, often in the morning mist, and returned when the dew was yet on the grass and flowers.
-- Besides, following his inner faith, he was always subject to the censure of people; in the other case he received the approval of the people that surrounded him.
-- Nekhludoff at first struggled, but the struggle was very hard, for whatever he did, following the faith that was in him, was considered wrong by others, and, contrariwise, whatever he considered wrong was approved of by his relatives.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.
-- I looked at the half-dozen little figures that were following me.
-- But the day was growing late, and I had come upon the sight of the place after a long and tiring circuit; so I resolved to hold over the adventure for the following day, and I returned to the welcome and the caresses of little Weena.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- TREASURE ISLAND茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙To S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, the author.
-- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
-- For in these fits he was the most overriding companion ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not following his story.
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