by是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 被； 凭借； 经由； 由于ad. 在近旁； 经过，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 church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- FATHER GORIOT BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Ellen Marriage To the great and illustrious Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a token of admiration for his works and genius.
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed.
-- Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant.
-- But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared by the contemplation of sad hues and sober images.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inspir-ited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
-- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- I com-menced by inuring my body to hardship.
-- I shall depart for the latter town in a fortnight or three weeks; and my intention is to hire a ship there, which can easily be done by paying the insurance for the owner, and to engage as many sailors as I think necessary among those who are accustomed to the whale-fishing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is one of the most popular books ever written ; more than 28 million copies of the book... Part One CHAPTER I SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarletontwins were.
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentleadmonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
-- You canalways tell weather by sunsets."
-- "Well, when we were in Atlanta yesterday, waiting for the home train, her carriage went by the depot and shestopped and talked to us, and she told us there was going to be an engagement announced tomorrow night at theWilkes ball."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
-- A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- Then, he held me by the arms, in an upright position on the top of the stone, and went on in these fearful terms:--"You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily; and when he had gone but a lit-tle way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
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