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：
-- It so far deepened the stain which a previous and very similar event had left upon the reputation of the French commander that it was not entirely erased by his early and glorious death.
-- When Duncan and David, therefore, found themselves in the center of the children, who played the antics already mentioned, it was without the least previous intimation of their approach.
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：
-- I remembered from my previous meeting with him that he had a foolish face, and was proud of the fact that for the ten years before he left the army he had played polo three days a week.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Climbing down the crater, they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night.
-- The engineer then took a flat stone which he had brought back from one of his previous excursions, a sort of slate, on which it was easy to trace figures with a sharp shell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing that he was up and dressed, and that the room appeared to have been occupied ever since she quitted it on the previous evening, she stopped short, in some embarrassment.
-- Having only received from Frederick Trent, late on the previous night, information of the old man's illness, he had come upon a visit of condolence and inquiry to Nell, prepared with the first instalment of that long train of fascinations which was to fire her heart at last.
-- Mr Codlin, still doomed to contemplate the harsh realities of existence, was packing among his linen the candle-ends which had been saved from the previous night's performance; while his companion received the compliments of all the loungers in the stable-yard, who, unable to separate him from the master-mind of Punch, set him down as next in importance to that merry outlaw, and loved him scarcely less.
-- They had drawn close together during the previous whispering, and now hastily separated and were rather awkwardly endeavouring to exchange some casual remarks in their usual tone, when strange footsteps were heard without, and fresh company entered.
-- The old gentleman received him very kindly and so did the old lady, whose previous good opinion of him was greatly enhanced by his wiping his boots on the mat until the soles of his feet burnt again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The joy of spring felt by animals and men did not penetrate the office of the county jail, but the one thing of supreme importance there was a document received the previous evening, with title, number and seal, which ordered the bringing into court for trial, this 28th day of April, at nine o'clock in the morning, three prisoners--two women and one man.
-- He was gazing before him, contemplating the events of the previous day and considering what he had before him for that day.
-- As he thought of the previous evening, spent at the Korchagins, a wealthy and influential family, whose daughter, rumor had it, he was to marry, he sighed, and throwing away the butt of his cigarette, he was on the point of taking another from the silver cigarette holder, but changed his mind.
-- They were all well, except Polkan, who had gone mad the previous year.
-- This was known to all the inmates of the prison since the previous evening, and every one was talking of the coming flogging.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myself who had attended the previous dinner.
-- "I feel assured it's this business of the Time Machine," I said, and took up the Psychologist's account of our previous meeting.
-- I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey.
-- But now her every motion appeared to be the exact inversion of her previous ones.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINESThe next day, the 20th of February, I awoke very late: the fatigues of the previous night had prolonged my sleep until eleven o'clock.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, suddenly, the small, unresponding man swung aside, towards his previous audience and broke forth, exactly as he had broken off; in a controlled, mocking voice, giving an imitation of a quarrel between an old Cologne woman and a railway guard.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.
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