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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.'
-- It was a Testament, in lean type, and smelling dreadfully musty: a fly leaf bore the inscription 'Catherine Earnshaw, her book,' and a date some quarter of a century back.
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