audience是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 听众, 观众, 读者，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince hastened to suppress the smiles of his audience at this point.
-- His audience consisted of a youth of about fifteen years of age with a clever face, who had a book in his hand, though he was not reading; a young lady of twenty, in deep mourn-ing, stood near him with an infant in her arms; another girl of thirteen, also in black, was laughing loudly, her mouth wide open; and on the sofa lay a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.
-- A movement of impa-tience was noticed in his audience as he resumed: 'I merely wish to state, for the information of all concerned, that the reason for Mr. Pavlicheff's interest in your mother, Mr. Bur-dovsky, was simply that she was the sister of a serf-girl with whom he was deeply in love in his youth, and whom most certainly he would have married but for her sudden death.
-- He glared defiantly round at the audience in general.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here Mr Codlin's false position in society and the effect it wrought upon his wounded spirit, were strongly illustrated; for whereas he had been last night accosted by Mr Punch as 'master,' and had by inference left the audience to understand that he maintained that individual for his own luxurious entertainment and delight, here he was, now, painfully walking beneath the burden of that same Punch's temple, and bearing it bodily upon his shoulders on a sultry day and along a dusty road.
-- The puzzled dunce, who stood beside it to say his lesson out of book, looked no longer at the ceiling for forgotten words, but drew closer to the master's elbow and boldly cast his eye upon the page; the wag of the little troop squinted and made grimaces (at the smallest boy of course), holding no book before his face, and his approving audience knew no constraint in their delight.
-- It might have been expected that when the play was done, both players and audience would have dispersed; but the epilogue was as bad as the play, for no sooner was the Devil dead, than the manager of the puppets and his partner were summoned by the single gentleman to his chamber, where they were regaled with strong waters from his private store, and where they held with him long conversations, the purport of which no human being could fathom.
-- The exhibitor disappeared with all speed behind the drapery; and his partner, stationing himself by the side of the Theatre, surveyed the audience with a remarkable expression of melancholy, which became more remarkable still when he breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instrument which is popularly termed a mouth-organ, without at all changing the mournful expression of the upper part of his face, though his mouth and chin were, of necessity, in lively spasms.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prosecutor received him standing, evidently dissatisfied with Nekhludoff's persistence in seeking an audience with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The audience would have gone over to Mr Pancks, as one man, woman, and child, but for the long, grey, silken locks, and the broad-brimmed hat.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's no use!Do the best you can when the time comes, and if the audience laughs, don't blame me.
-- 'Glad to find you so merry, my girls,' said a cheery voice at the door, and actors and audience turned to welcome a tall, motherly lady with a 'can I help you' look about her which was truly delightful.
-- The gruff tones of Hugo's voice, with an occasional shout when his feelings overcame him, were very impressive, and the audience applauded the moment he paused for breath.
-- Having warbled his thanks and put the potions in his boots, Hugo departed, and Hagar informed the audience that as he had killed a few of her friends in times past, she had cursed him, and intends to thwart his plans, and be revenged on him.
-- Then the curtain fell, and the audience reposed and ate candy while discussing the merits of the play.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they fly, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the pavements: up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!Stop thief!'
-- The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On finding Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon after breakfast, he addressed the mother in these words: 'May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a pri- vate audience with her in the course of this morning?'
-- With many compliments to them, and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a con-nection between the houses, he unfolded the matter to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed: 'Good Lord!Sir William, how can you tell such a story?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A well-dressed, good-natured, flatteringly-inclined audience was assured from the moment he thought of assisting Carrie.
-- "An audience would be the last thing to trouble me.
-- It took all the hope and uncritical good-nature of the audience to keep from manifesting pity by that unrest which is the agony of failure.
-- The audience had been slightly diverted by a conversation between the professional actor and a character called Snorky, impersonated by a short little American, who really developed some humour as a half-crazed, one-armed soldier, turned messenger for a living.
-- The audience was at least not irritated.
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