height是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 高， 高度； (常pl. ) 高地， 高处，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：
-- She said it aloud, but added to herself, as she resumed her knitting: 'Hah!Good day, age about forty, height about five feet nine, black hair, generally rather handsome visage, complexion dark, eyes dark, thin, long and sallow face, aq-uiline nose but not straight, having a peculiar inclination 255towards the left cheek which imparts a sinister expression!
-- ), it is a curious thing that she is going to marry the nephew of Monsieur the Marquis, for whom Gaspard was exalted to that height of so many feet; in other words, the present Marquis.
-- It was an ordinance of the Republic One and Indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, that on the door or doorpost of every house, the name of every inmate must be legibly inscribed in letters of a certain size, at a certain convenient height from the ground.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so 86 Andersen's Fairy Talescapital!Just as they were in the very height of their amuse-ment, a large sledge passed by: it was painted quite white, and there was someone in it wrapped up in a rough white mantle of fur, with a rough white fur cap on his head.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do like it when he looks down at me from the height of his grandeur, or breaks off his learned conversation with me because I'm a fool, or is condescending to me.
-- She found this comfort through a completely new world being opened to her by means of this acquaintance, a world having nothing in common with her past, an exalted, noble world, from the height of which she could contemplate her past calmly.
-- he asked, noticing a sick man of medium height sitting on a bench, wearing a brown overcoat and white trousers that fell in strange folds about his long, fleshless legs.
-- Betsy, dressed in the height of the latest fashion, in a hat that towered somewhere over her head like a shade on a lamp, in a blue dress with violet crossway stripes slanting one way on the bodice and the other way on the skirt, was sitting beside Anna, her tall flat figure held erect.
-- There was bitterness, there was shame in his heart, but with bitterness and shame he felt joy and emotion at the height of his own meekness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon, on the wane, scarcely left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds; the height of the trees deepened the darkness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus it happened that while Martin was at the height of his prosperity and credit as a physician, along the Pony River Valley sinuated the whispers that he was a gambler, that he was a "drinking man," that he never went to church; and all the godly enjoyed mourning, "Too bad to see a decent young man like that going to the dogs."
-- The Hall rose the full height of the two floors of the Institute.
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：
-- It had a poverty-stricken appearance with its dusty yellow paper peeling off the walls, and it was so low-pitched that a man of more than average height was ill at ease in it and felt every moment that he would knock his head against the ceiling.
-- From the height of what majestic calm do you proclaim these words of wis-dom?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the completest and mostdesirable bedroom ever seen- in the stern of the vessel; with a littlewindow, where the rudder used to go through; a little looking-glass, just the right height for me, nailed against the wall, andframed with oyster-shells; a little bed, which there was just roomenough to get into; and a nosegay of seaweed in a blue mug on thetable.
-- I was in the height of my fever when aman entered and whispered to the clerk, who presently slanted meoff the scale, and pushed me over to him, as if I were weighed,bought, delivered, and paid for.
-- Nothaving as yet finished my own breakfast, I attempted to hide myconfusion by proceeding with it; but my knife tumbled over myfork, my fork tripped up my knife, I chipped bits of bacon asurprising height into the air instead of cutting them for my owneating, and choked myself with my tea, which persisted in goingthe wrong way instead of the right one, until I gave in altogether,and sat blushing under my aunt's close scrutiny.
-- It was quite an affecting sight, I used to think, to see him with thekite when it was up a great height in the air.
-- The Doctor, however, who felt, I am sure, that he was makingeverybody happy, was well pleased, and had no suspicion but thatwe were all at the utmost height of enjoyment.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- what a bloom of full health, and such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure!There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air, her head, her glance.
-- Proportions, fore-shortening. Oh no!it gives one exactly the idea of such a height as Miss Smith's.
-- Her height was pretty, just such as almost every body would think tall, and no-body could think very tall; her figure particularly graceful; her size a most becoming medium, between fat and thin, though a slight appearance of ill-health seemed to point out the likeliest evil of the two.
-- He is the very best young man But, my dear Jane, if you remember, I told you yesterday he was precisely the height of Mr. Per-ry.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
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