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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Be that as it may, my brave Paganel, seeing there are neither Indians, nor negroes, nor mulattoes among us, I am quite rejoiced at the absence of your beloved jaguars.
-- "A little later," continued the Major, "when a providential fit of absence of mind came over Paganel, and brought him on board the yacht, the documents were submitted to him and he approved our plan of search most unreservedly."
-- Lady Helena paid him sincere compliments on his mythological visitants, and so did the Major, though he could not forbear adding:"But mind no fits of absence of mind, my dear Paganel; and if you take a fancy to learn Australian, don't go and study it in a Chinese grammar."
-- In spite of the absence of the moon, the night was almost luminous with the light of the southern constellations.
-- The Major alone, whose brief absence had not been noticed, contented himself with being a silent listener.
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：
-- My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.
-- There is a complete absence of motive.
-- It is very probable, therefore, that in the absence of his master it was he who cared for the hound, though he may never have known the purpose for which the beast was used.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That is, of course, if you really are a relative of Mrs. Epanchin's, and have not made a little error through well, absence of mind, which is very common to human beings; or, say through a too luxuriant fancy?'
-- 'Oh yes, I knew General Epanchin well,' General Ivolgin was saying at this moment; 'he and Prince Nicolai Ivano-vitch Muishkin whose son I have this day embraced after an absence of twenty years and I, were three inseparables.
-- It was said that there were other reasons for his hurried departure; but as to this, and as to his movements in Mos- cow, and as to his prolonged absence from St. Petersburg, we are able to give very little information.
-- The little one is delicate; she needs change of air; and during our absence this house will be done up.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, alas!falling early into the seafaring life, which of all lives is the most destitute of the fear of God, though His terrors are always before them; I say, fall-ing early into the seafaring life, and into seafaring company, all that little sense of religion which I had entertained was laughed out of me by my messmates; by a hardened despis-ing of dangers, and the views of death, which grew habitual to me by my long absence from all manner of opportunities to converse with anything but what was like myself, or to hear anything that was good or tended towards it.
-- There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its im-petuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable.
-- From hence I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it - to others, and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, 'Why hast thou formed me thus?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Edward's embarrassment lasted some time, and it ended in an absence of mind still more settled.
-- There were moments in abundance, when, if not by the absence of her mother and sisters, at least by the nature of their employments, conversation was forbidden among them, and every effect of solitude was produced.
-- "Edward's love for me," said Lucy, "has been pretty well put to the test, by our long, very long absence since we were first engaged, and it has stood the trial so well, that I should be unpardonable to doubt it now.
-- Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.
-- Happy to find that she was not suspected of any extraordinary interest in it; that Mrs. Jennings (as she had of late often hoped might be the case) had ceased to imagine her at all attached to Edward; and happy above all the rest, in the absence of Marianne, she felt very well able to speak of the affair without embarrassment, and to give her judgment, as she believed, with impartiality on the conduct of every one concerned in it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he disappeared she felt his absence thoroughly.
-- To him the presence or absence of his wife's sister was a matter of indifference.
-- The scene was one in "The Covenant," in which the wife listened to the seductive voice of a lover in the absence of her husband.
-- His absence did not seem to be noticed by either of his children.
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