herald是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 传令官； 通报者，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：
-- And so it was; on January 29, 1840, the English corvette HERALD arrived to claim possession.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day to Jove and to the other immortals, and Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly; so they called them and the people gathered thereon.
-- Then Ulysses rose, sceptre in hand, and Minerva in the likeness of a herald bade the people be still, that those who were far off might hear him and consid-er his council.
-- The herald bore it about and showed it to all the chieftains of the Achaeans, going from left to right; but they none of them owned it.
-- When, how-ever, in due course he reached the man who had written upon it and had put it into the helmet, brave Ajax held out his hand, and the herald gave him the lot.
-- Thereon they would have hacked at one another in close combat with their swords, had not heralds, messen-gers of gods and men, come forward, one from the Trojans and the other from the Achaeans Talthybius and Idaeus both of them honourable men; these parted them with their staves, and the good herald Idaeus said, 'My sons, fight no longer, you are both of you valiant, and both are dear to Jove; we know this; but night is now falling, and the behests of night may not be well gainsaid.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where he got them did not matter to him; figures in the daily papers, in the census report, or in the Miscellany Column of the Sanctification Herald were equally valid.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It cost the New York Herald two thousand dollars, but the New York Herald published the first intelligence.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald made a habit of dominating the conversation at mealtimes, and usually Scarlett,occupied with her own thoughts, scarcely heard him; but tonight she could not shut out his voice, no matter how muchshe strained to listen for the sound of carriage wheels that would herald Ellen's return.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the same water in which Captain Denham of the Herald sounded 7,000 fathoms without finding the bottom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the herald of the family procession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The untasted meal was removed, with looks which showed that their thoughts were elsewhere, they watched the sun as he sank lower and lower, and, at length, cast over sky and earth those brilliant hues which herald his departure.
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