date是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 日期， 年代v. 注明…的日期n. /v. 约会，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, the proof would go back five years, and would show the prisoner al-ready engaged in these pernicious missions, within a few weeks before the date of the very first action fought between the British troops and the Americans.
-- It was nothing that the decree bore date since his return to France.
-- 'Do I date it?'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE OLD HOUSE In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house-it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the year was carved: together with tulips and hop-binds there were whole verses spelled as in former times, and over every win-dow was a distorted face cut out in the beam.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
-- From the date of their conversation after the party at Princess Tverskaya's he had never spoken again to Anna of his suspicions and his jealousies, and that habitual tone of his bantering mimicry was the most convenient tone possible for his present attitude to his wife.
-- Just as Levin had disliked all the trivial preparations for his wedding, as derogatory to the grandeur of the event, now he felt still more offensive the preparations for the approaching birth, the date of which they reckoned, it seemed, on their fingers.
-- The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The consul proceeded to sign and date the passport, after which he added his official seal.
-- According to his journal, he was due at Calcutta on the 25th of October, and that was the exact date of his actual arrival.
-- Phileas Fogg was therefore justified in hoping that he would reach San Francisco by the 2nd of December, New York by the 11th, and London on the 20th thus gaining several hours on the fatal date of the 21st of December.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dread of Watters's patronage enabled Martin to lie vigorously: "Awfully sorry--awfully sorry--got a date for tomorrow evening and the next evening."
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：
-- 'Your things, the ring and the watch, were wrapped up together, and on the paper your name was legibly written in pencil, together with the date on which you left them with 358 Crime and Punishmenther 芒聙娄' 'How observant you are!'
-- The hag had written the date on in pencil!You are wrong, you won't catch me!There are no facts 芒聙娄 it's all supposition!
-- He was convinced that he had been mistaken about many things at that time, for instance as to the date of certain events.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Events of later date have floatedfrom me to the shore where all forgotten things will reappear, butthis stands like a high rock in the ocean.
-- 'The first time he came,' said Mr. Dick, 'was- let me see- sixteenhundred and forty-nine was the date of King Charles's execution.
-- Did you get that date out of history?'
-- 340CHAPTER XXVGood and Bad AngelsI WAS going out at my door on the morning after that deplorableday of headache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusionin my mind relative to the date of my dinner-party as if a body ofTitans had taken an enormous lever and pushed the day beforeyesterday some months back, when I saw a ticket-porter comingupstairs, with a letter in his hand.
-- '"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.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not likely, however, that any body should have equalled her in the date of the plan, as it had entered her brain during the very first evening of Har-riet's coming to Hartfield.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I believe I am correct in stating that, until the existence of this contemporaneous Wessex was announced in the present story, in 1874, it had never been heard of, and that the expression, "a Wessex peasant," or "a Wessex custom," would theretofore have been taken to refer to nothing later in date than the Norman Conquest.
-- The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.
-- A group or two of the latest in date amongst the dead multitude had remained till this very mid-winter time on the twigs which bore them and in falling rattled against the trunks with smart taps.
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