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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, if the shop existed and if this object were really in the window, it would prove that he had been able to concentrate his attention on this article at a moment when, as a general rule, his absence of mind would have been too great to admit of any such concentra-tion; in fact, very shortly after he had left the railway station in such a state of agitation.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding his rising resentment, his natural firm-ness, and his anxiety on behalf of Uncas, Heyward felt sensibly relieved by the absence of so dangerous and so sub-tle a foe.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prolonged absence of the Negro made Pencroft very uneasy.
-- They perceived by the tranquillity of the sea, in which no shallows troubled the waters, by its uniform color, which was stained by no yellow shades, by the absence of even a reef, that the coast was steep and that the ocean there covered a deep abyss.
-- As to the animals in question, they were peccaries belonging to one of the four species which are included in the family, and they were also of the species of Tajacu, recognizable by their deep color and the absence of those long teeth with which the mouths of their congeners are armed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a strong misgiving that his nightly absence was for no good purpose.
-- CHAPTER 4Mr and Mrs Quilp resided on Tower Hill; and in her bower on Tower Hill Mrs Quilp was left to pine the absence of her lord, when he quitted her on the business which he had already seen to transact.
-- He was speedily brought on his heels by the sound of his master's voice, and as soon as his head was in its right position, Mr Quilp, to speak expressively in the absence of a better verb, 'punched it' for him.
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
-- On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will separate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and that the meeting will never be.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "[A] "I have already said that I cannot prosecute them in the absence of witnesses," said the assistant prosecutor, "and I will so declare to the court."
-- This entire absence of coquetry surprised and completely captivated Maslova.
-- Absence changed to absent from original sentence (Part 1, Ch.
-- 25): He was postponing the case against the Skoptzy, although the absence witness was an entirely unnecessary one.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once.
-- With a pretty absence of ceremony they began to eat the fruit with their hands, flinging peel and stalks, and so forth, into the round openings in the sides of the tables.
-- "I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dick was gone but a little while, and during his absence Israel spoke straight on in the cook's ear.
-- Would not my absence itself be an evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore of my fatal knowledge?
-- The squire and Gray were busy helping the captain with his bandages, the coast was clear, I made a bolt for it over the stockade and into the thickest of the trees, and before my absence was observed I was out of cry of my companions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- I was preoccupied by the absence of the Captain during our sitting of the day before, and hoping to see him to-day.
-- They were astonished at the puzzling absence of the Captain.
-- As he made no allusion to his absence during the last eight days, I did not mention it, and simply answered that my companions and myself were ready to follow him.
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