previous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 先前的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's house-hold should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young Jerry, walking with the stool under his arm at his father's side along sunny and crowded Fleet-street, was a very different Young Jerry from him of the previous night, running home through darkness and solitude from his grim pursuer.
-- A numer-ous medley of men and women, not to mention beasts and vehicles of various sorts, was waiting to issue forth; but, the previous identification was so strict, that they filtered through the barrier very slowly.
-- He was again alone in his room of the previous night, considering what to do next, when he heard a foot upon the stair.
-- It is Jarvis Lorry who has replied to all the previous ques-tions.
-- I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for it-self and wearing out.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he had indeed on previous occasions struck and impressed people who did not know him by his air of unhesitating composure, he seemed now more haughty and self-possessed than ever.
-- She recalled with wonder her state of mind on the previous day.
-- Chapter 21 The temporary stable, a wooden shed, had been put up close to the race course, and there his mare was to have been taken the previous day.
-- But he was continually met and stopped by acquaintances, who told him about the previous races, and kept asking him why he was so late.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch asserted and believed that he had never in any previous year had so much official business as that year.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Holabird heard of their previous success, and came down on them with laurels and fury.
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：
-- This friend was Lizaveta Ivanovna, or, as everyone called her, Lizaveta, the younger sister of the old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, whom Raskolnikov had visited the previous day to pawn his watch and make his experiment芒聙娄.
-- In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conver-sation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything.
-- It seemed to him strange and monstrous that he could have slept in such forgetfulness from the previous day and had done nothing, had prepared nothing yet芒聙娄.
-- 'If you are in an intelli-gible condition, I've thirty-five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivano-vitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions.
-- 芒聙娄 Come, that's enough,' Razumihin concluded, and he turned abruptly to Zossimov to continue their previous conversation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 66For good, too; though, in consequence of my previous emotions, Iwas still occasionally seized with a stormy sob.
-- As he repudiated this suggestion, however, with a jerk of his head,and once more confirmed his previous request by saying, withprofound gravity, 'Barkis is willin'.
-- When we had dined, we went upstairs again, where everythingwent on exactly as on the previous day.
-- '"When I leave my dear home- my dear home- oh, my dearhome!in the morning-"' the letter bore date on the previous night:'"-it will be never to come back, unless he brings me back a lady.
-- 467As to sleep, I had dreams of poverty in all sorts of shapes, but Iseemed to dream without the previous ceremony of going to sleep.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Elton looked as if he did not very well know what answer to make; which was exactly the case; for though very much gratified by the kind care of such a fair lady, and not liking to resist any advice of her's, he had not really the least inclination to give up the visit; but Emma, too ea-ger and busy in her own previous conceptions and views to hear him impartially, or see him with clear vision, was very well satisfied with his muttering acknowledgment of its be-ing 'very cold, certainly very cold,' and walked on, rejoicing in having extricated him from Randalls, and secured him the power of sending to inquire after Harriet every hour of the evening.
-- It would not have been the awkwardness of a moment, it would have been rather a plea-sure, previous to the suspicions of this very day; she could have talked to him of Harriet, and the three-quarters of a mile would have seemed but one.
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