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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain examined the document carefully, and said:"Well, here's the date of the occurrence first: 7 Juni means June 7; and if we put that before the figures 62 we have in the other document, it gives us the exact date, 7th of June, 1862."
-- This reply agreed perfectly with the date of the document.
-- It was quite possible that the three men had become separated long ago; but still this much was certain, that the Indians had spoken of a European that was in their power; and the date of the captivity, and even the descriptive phrase about the captive, evidently pointed to Harry Grant.
-- "It can't be some years ago; the date of the shipwreck is explicitly given.
-- "Yet nothing can be clearer," said Glenarvan; "it gives the date of the shipwreck, and the manner, and the place of the captivity in the most categorical manner."
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：
-- 'To James Mortim-er, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,' was engraved upon it, with the date '1884.'
-- And he left five years ago the date is on the stick.
-- It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
-- 'The exact date is 1742.'
-- The address, 'Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland Hotel,' was printed in rough characters; the postmark 'Charing Cross,' and the date of posting the preceding evening.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing would be easier than to prove the date of your birth from well-known facts; we can only look on Mr. Keller's version as a work of imagination, and one, more- over, extremely offensive both to you and your mother.
-- 'However that may be, I have private infor-mation which convinces me that Mr. Burdovsky, though doubtless aware of the date of his birth, knew nothing at all about Pavlicheff's sojourn abroad.
-- He was a great friend of the dignitary's, and Lizabetha Prokofievna, for some reason or other, had got hold of the idea that this worthy intended at no distant date to offer the advantages of his hand and heart to Alexandra.
-- After a while, by means of certain hints, he was able to gather that Nasta-sia must have had a quarrel with her friend two or three weeks ago, since which date the latter had neither heard nor seen anything of her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the dictionaries of natural science and Polynesian idioms, both were English; but they neither bore the name of the publisher nor the date of publication.
-- The atlas was a magnificent work, comprising maps of every country in the world, and several planispheres arranged upon Mercator's projection, and of which the nomenclature was in French but which also bore neither date nor name of publisher.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This screen, together with two seats in the broad chimney, had at some forgotten date been part of the church or convent; for the oak, hastily appropriated to its present purpose, had been little altered from its former shape, and presented to the eye a pile of fragments of rich carving from old monkish stalls.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One, A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
-- I found the date was indeed today, and looking at the timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o'clock.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books, but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One morning (what date it was I could not say) I had fallen into a heavy sleep towards the early hours, a sleep both painful and unhealthy, when I suddenly awoke.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I believe I must date it from my first see-ing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They tried in time and were apprised of the proper date to apply again.
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