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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and re-pressing imagination all the rest of her life.
-- What strength, or what constancy of affection he might be subject to, was another point; but at present she could not doubt his having a decidedly warm admiration, a conscious prefer-ence of herself; and this persuasion, joined to all the rest, made her think that she must be a little in love with him, in spite of every previous determination against it.
-- When she became sensible of this, it struck her that she could not be very much in love; for in spite of her previous and fixed determination never to quit her father, never to marry, a strong attachment certainly must produce more of a strug-gle than she could foresee in her own feelings.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself.
-- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.
-- Certainly nobody without previous information would have dreamt that Oak and the handsome woman before whom he stood had ever been other than strangers.
-- A rusty patch immediately upon the verse, caused by previous pressure of an iron substance thereon, told that this was not the first time the old volume had been used for the purpose.
-- Bathsheba took from her desk a gorgeously illuminated and embossed design in post-octavo, which had been bought on the previous market-day at the chief stationer's in Casterbridge.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Practical assistance not one could give, this they all knew, and they had long since exhausted their stock of condolence over previous discussions of their grievances.
-- Rastignac made up his mind that he must learn the whole of Goriot's previous history; he would come to his bearings before attempting to board the Maison de Nucingen.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father 26 Frankensteinhad gradually relinquished all his public functions; and im-mediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
-- 'The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris.
-- I would not disturb you at this period, when so many misfor-tunes weigh upon you, but a conversation that I had with my uncle previous to his departure renders some explana-tion necessary before we meet.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until the previous summer, Stuart had courted India Wilkes with the approbation of both families and theentire County.
-- For some months, he was the most popular and romantic figure the town knew, despite his previous reputation,despite the faint rumors that he was engaged not only in blockading but in speculating on foodstuffs, too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the previous night, I had been sent straight to bed in an attic with a sloping roof, which was so low in the corner where the bedstead was, that I calculated the tiles as being within a foot of my eyebrows.
-- so I went out on the landing and roared that name as I had done on the previous occasion.
-- When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister "went on the Rampage," in a more alarming degree than at any previous period.
-- As the question had no bearing, near or remote, on any foregone or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension.
-- Previous to placing it before him, he went into the Aged's room with a clean white cloth, and tied the same under the old gentleman's chin, and propped him up, and put his nightcap on one side, and gave him quite a rakish air.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the hour came round again he went as usual on to the tan-heap in the garden to await the king's daughter, but he felt even more overcome with weariness than on the two previous days, and throwing himself down, he slept like a log.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came the experienced chaplain of the jail, with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from the public eye, where they heard low singing and saw low dancing, and mayhap joined in it; and where A.
-- Mr. Bounderby seemed agreeably surprised, notwithstanding his previous strong conviction.
-- And it is satisfactory to me, as your father, my dear Louisa, to know that you do not come to the consideration of that question with the previous habits of mind, and habits of life, that belong to many young women.'
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