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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her visual familiarity, oral strangeness.
-- But he stole in in my absence and robbed me.
-- She went in, leaving him standing there, and in her absence the blind of the room containing Bathsheba was pulled down.
-- To curse his miserable lot was at first his impulse, but even that lowest stage of rebellion needed an activity whose absence was necessarily antecedent to the existence of the morbid misery which wrung him.
-- DOUBTS ARISE DOUBTS LINGERBathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil.
-- Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son?
-- Their happiness was not decreased by the absence of summer.
-- My voice, although harsh, had nothing terrible in it; I thought, therefore, that if in the absence of his children I could gain the good will and mediation of the old De Lacey, I might by his means be tolerated by my younger protectors.
-- The duration of my absence was left to my own choice; a few months, or at most a year, was the period contemplat-ed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not tell them that itwas utter boredom, bewilderment at actually being a mother and, most of all, the absence of Ashley that made her lookso woebegone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was falling into meditation on my guardian's greatness, when Wemmick remarked:--"As to the absence of plate, that's only his natural depth, you know.
-- After a prolonged absence at this stage of the entertainment, he at length came back with a casket of precious appearance containing twigs.
-- But Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle-case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers.
-- After a short pause of repose, Miss Skiffins--in the absence of the little servant who, it seemed, retired to the bosom of her family on Sunday afternoons--washed up the tea-things, in a trifling lady-like amateur manner that compromised none of us.
-- As the days went on, I noticed more and more that he would lie placidly looking at the white ceiling, with an absence of light in his face until some word of mine brightened it for an instant, and then it would subside again.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the cat's absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
-- I landed next morning, and saw once more my native country, after an absence of five years and six months complete.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your absence will make a vast difference to me, sir, as I think you very well know.'
-- 'Well, ma'am, then you must get on in my absence as well as you can,' said Mr. Bounderby, not displeased.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His absence was, however, more than compensated by the presence of M. Fridriksson, professor of natural science in the college of Reykjavik, a man of invaluable ability.
-- "And you are surprised at this total absence of springs?"
-- I could, however, plainly see that my uncle was contending painfully against the extreme fatigues of our journey, and the awful torture generated by the absence of water.
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