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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His height and breadth would have been sufficient to make his presence imposing, had they been exhibited with due consideration.
-- It was not a bridle-path merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.
-- She seemed tall, but the pail was a small one, and the hedge diminutive; hence, making allowance for error by comparison with these, she could have been not above the height to be chosen by women as best.
-- These sticks were nearly straight to the height of three or four feet, where each branched into a fork like the letter Y.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
-- Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fierylittle husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
-- It was likeGerald that he never wasted regrets on his lack of height and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anythinghe wanted.
-- She wasglad she had inherited Ellen's slender white hands and tiny feet, and she wished she had Ellen's height, too, but herown height pleased her very well.
-- "Perhaps we should recall our invitation to Captain Butler " began Pittypat "Oh, we couldn't!It would be the height of rudeness!"
-- He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion,and wore clothes which were always the height of style and tailoring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If my time had run out, it would have left me still at the height of my perplexities, I dare say.
-- There was no discrepancy of years between us to remove her far from me; we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more in her case than in mine; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.
-- His constant height is of a piece with his immense abilities.
-- Then, between his height and them, he slips in his subordinate,--don't you see?--and so he has 'em, soul and body."
-- If I dozed for a minute, I was awakened by Miss Havisham's cries, and by her running at me with all that height of fire above her head.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and find-ing it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.
-- For, as to that infa-mous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to ob-serve, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
-- I confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, 109I could not forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually deformed: for I must do them the justice to say, they are a comely race of people, and particu-larly the features of my master's countenance, although he was but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned.
-- Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
-- To which he an-swered, that discoursing this matter with the sailors while I was asleep, one of them said, he had observed three ea-gles flying towards the north, but remarked nothing of their being larger than the usual size:' which I suppose must be imputed to the great height they were at; and he could not guess the reason of my question.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the healthy spirits who had mounted to this sublime height were attractive to many of the Gradgrind school.
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