absence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缺乏， 不存在； 缺席， 不在； 缺席的时间，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：
-- The idea was so acceptable in the prevalent absence of any idea, that the crowd caught it up with eagerness, and loudly repeating the suggestion to have 'em out, and to pull 'em out, mobbed the two vehicles so closely that they came to a stop.
-- A suspended interest and a prevalent absence of mind, were perhaps observed by the spies who looked in at the wine-shop, as they looked in at every place, high and low, from the kings palace to the criminal's gaol.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights.
-- And in the absence of Vassenka, on whom Levin threw the blame of his failure, things went no better.
-- In spite of the dirtiness of the hut, which was all muddied by their boots and the filthy dogs licking themselves clean, and the smell of marsh mud and powder that filled the room, and the absence of knives and forks, the party drank their tea and ate their supper with a relish only known to sportsmen.
-- In spite of all this, towards the end of that day, everyone except the princess, who could not pardon Levin's action, became extraordinarily lively and good humored, like children after a punishment or grown-up people after a dreary, ceremonious reception, so that by the evening Vassenka's dismissal was spoken of, in the absence of the princess, as though it were some remote event.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch asked for all the details the princess knew about the young man, and going into the first-class waiting-room, wrote a note to the person on whom the granting of leave of absence depended, and handed it to the princess.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During her absence the others gave a brief musical program.
-- But it chanced, because of the absence of the proper judge , that the case came before an ignorant and honest person who quashed the injunction secured by Mrs. McCandless's lawyer and instructed the Department of Public Health that it might use such methods as the city ordinances provided for emergencies.
-- Through the film Martin gave his opinion, as a captain and as a doctor, that it seemed improbable a mother should not know her daughter after an absence of ten years.
-- At home dinner he never cared what he ate (though he did care what he drank), which at Penrith Lodge was desirable, in view of Leora's efforts to combine the views of Wheatsylvania with the standards of West Indian servants and the absence of daily deliveries.
-- The absence of Gottlieb may have been good for Martin, since he no longer turned to the master for solutions in tough queries.
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：
-- Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that's just what they relish!Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can.
-- 'Yet in their absence I seemed to love them so much,' flashed through his mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I could hardly helpobserving that she had launched into them, chiefly because thequestion was raised in her own mind, and with very little referenceto me, though she had addressed herself to me in the absence ofanybody else.
-- But in the absence of any such miraculousprovision, my desire was to apply myself to some pursuit thatwould not lie too heavily upon her purse; and to do my duty in it,whatever it might be.
-- 399CHAPTER XXIXI Visit Steerforth at His Home, AgainI MENTIONED to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leaveof absence for a short time; and as I was not in the receipt of mysalary, and consequently was not obnoxious to the implacableJorkins, there was no difficulty about it.
-- 'On my return to Norwood, after the period of absence occasionedby my brother's marriage,' pursued Miss Murdstone in adisdainful voice, 'and on the return of Miss Spenlow from her visitto her friend Miss Mills, I imagined that the manner of MissSpenlow gave me greater occasion for suspicion than before.
-- I consulted the good Doctorrelative to an absence of three days; and the Doctor wishing me totake that relaxation,- he wished me to take more; but my energycould not bear that,- I made up my mind to go.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power; though, as far as she was herself con-cerned, it was no remedy for the absence of Mrs. Weston.
-- It was her own choice to give the time of their absence to Highbury; to spend, perhaps, her last months of perfect liberty with those kind relations to whom she was so very dear: and the Campbells, whatever might be their motive or motives, whether single, or double, or treble, gave the arrangement their ready sanc-tion, and said, that they depended more on a few months spent in her native air, for the recovery of her health, than on any thing else.
-- Short had been the notice short their meeting; he was gone; and Emma felt so sorry to part, and foresaw so great a loss to their little society from his absence as to begin to be afraid of being too sorry, and feeling it too much.
-- To that point went every leisure moment which her father's claims on her allowed, and ev-ery moment of involuntary absence of mind.
-- The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr. Knightley. They had de-termined that their marriage ought to be concluded while John and Isabella were still at Hartfield, to allow them the fortnight's absence in a tour to the seaside, which was the plan. John and Isabella, and every other friend, were agreed in approving it.
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