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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He succeeded in his dangerous attempt, and had arrived the previous night at the tomb of Kara-Tete, and there proposed to recruit his strength while he waited in the hope that his friends might, by Divine mercy, find the means of escape.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- MY DEAR HOLMES, My previous letters and tele-grams have kept you pretty well up to date as to all that has occurred in this most God-forsaken corner of the world.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vera related how Keller had taken up his abode with them on the previous evening.
-- Arrived at this inter-esting point, Gania suddenly broke off, and said no more about Nastasia's prank of the previous evening.
-- 'Neither during my illness nor at any previous time had I ever seen an apparition; but I had always thought, both when I was a little boy, and even now, that if I were to see one I should die on the spot though I don't believe in ghosts.
-- The whole of the previous night he had spent tossing about and groaning, and poor Nina Alexandrovna had been busy making cold compresses and warm fomentations and so on, without being very clear how to apply them.
-- He rose late, and immediately upon waking remem-bered all about the previous evening; he also remembered, though not quite so clearly, how, half an hour after his fit, he had been carried home.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Kemp, reading eagerly an incredulous account of the events in Iping, of the previous afternoon, that have already been described.
-- About eleven o'clock, the snow having thawed as it fell, and the day being finer and a little warmer than the previous one, I decided that the Emporium was hopeless, and went out again, exasperated at my want of success, with only the vaguest plans of action in my mind."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Af-terwards it occurred to me that probably I had seen him as I was lifted aboard; and yet that scarcely satisfied my suspi-cion of a previous acquaintance.
-- Then I recalled the expression of his face the previous night, and with that the memory of all I had experienced reconstruct-ed itself before me.
-- This time running blindly, I went northeastward in a direction at right angles to my previous expedition.
-- After I had breakfasted with Montgomery, he took me across the island to see the fumarole and the source of the hot spring into whose scalding waters I had blundered on the previous day.
-- I had already encountered some of these creatures, once during my moonlight flight from the Leopard-man, and once during my pursuit by Moreau on the previous day.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every thought filled with apprehension for the previous treasure he had concealed in the cavern, the young man started to his feet, totally re-gardless of the hazard he incurred by such an exposure.
-- The scout resumed his post in ad-vance, though his steps, after he had thrown a safe distance between himself and his enemies, were more deliberate than in their previous march, in consequence of his utter ignorance of the localities of the surrounding woods.
-- He was yet speaking, when a crashing sound was heard, and a cannon-ball entered the thicket, striking the body of a sapling, and rebounding to the earth, its force being much expended by previous resistance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was calm, except when she thought of her mother; but she was almost hopeless; and in this state she continued till noon, scarcely stirring from her sister's bed, her thoughts wandering from one image of grief, one suffering friend to another, and her spirits oppressed to the utmost by the conversation of Mrs. Jennings, who scrupled not to attribute the severity and danger of this attack to the many weeks of previous indisposition which Marianne's disappointment had brought on.
-- The shock of Colonel Brandon's errand at Barton had been much softened to Mrs. Dashwood by her own previous alarm; for so great was her uneasiness about Marianne, that she had already determined to set out for Cleveland on that very day, without waiting for any further intelligence, and had so far settled her journey before his arrival, that the Careys were then expected every moment to fetch Margaret away, as her mother was unwilling to take her where there might be infection.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As on the previous morning, Carrie walked down town, for she began to realise now that her four-fifty would not even allow her car fare after she paid her board.
-- On this Friday afternoon, scarcely two days after his previous visit, he made up his mind to see Carrie.
-- A breath of soft spring wind went bounding over the road, rolling some brown twigs of the previous autumn before it.
-- On the morrow, however, there was nothing in the papers concerning the event, and, in view of the flow of common, everyday things about, it now lost a shade of the glow of the previous evening.
-- I have a previous engagement."
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