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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wall of the fjord, like nearly the whole of the peninsula, consisted of a series of vertical columns, in height about thirty feet.
-- Looking up, every now and then, at the height of the great volcano of Sneffels, it appeared to me wholly impossible to reach to the summit on that side; at all events, if the angle of inclination did not speedily change.
-- "It is evident," I remarked, "that the upper surface of these springs is situated at a very great height above--as we may fairly infer from the great pressure of the jet."
-- The mighty superstructure of rock which rose above to an inconceivable height left only a narrow opening--but where we stood, there was a large margin of strand.
-- The lowest of the clouds must have been floating at an elevation of two thousand yards, a height greater than that of terrestrial vapors, which c ircumstance was doubtless owing to the extreme density of the air.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she rose on to the high country, she could see on her left, on a height above the rolling land, the shadowy, pow-erful bulk of Warsop Castle, dark grey, with below it the reddish plastering of miners' dwellings, newish, and be-low those the plumes of dark smoke and white steam from the great colliery which put so many thousand pounds per annum into the pockets of the Duke and the other share-holders.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern!One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably I may say like lovers on a height overhanging the sea.
-- They took one silent turn backward and forward in the shade of the wall, getting, at the height on which the quarantine barracks are placed, what cool refreshment of sea breeze there was at seven in the morning.
-- Indeed it would be the height of unreason to expect him to be sitting there without that head.
-- It was at a convenient height from the ground, and by stooping he could lightly raise the head with one hand and hold the glass to his lips with the other.
-- Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The revel was at its height when a priest appeared, and withdrawing the young pair to an alcove, hung with purple velvet, he motioned them to kneel.
-- As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a'la Moffat.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air.
-- I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?"
-- So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
-- As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neighborhood of some lone, gigantic elm, whose very height and strength but render it so much the more unsafe, because so much the more a mark for thunderbolts; so at those last words of Ahab's many of the mariners did run from him in a terror of dismay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By all means,' cried Bingley; 'let us hear all the particu-lars, not forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of.
-- There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original than she had ever felt at the height of their acquaintance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had very good weather, only excessively hot, all the way upon our own coast, till we came to the height of Cape St. Augustino; from whence, keeping further off at sea, we lost sight of land, and steered as if we were bound for the isle Fernando de Noronha, holding our course N.E.
-- I travelled first along the sea-shore, directly to the place where I first brought my boat to an anchor to get upon the rocks; and having no boat now to take care of, I went over the land a nearer way to the same height that I was upon before, when, looking for-ward to the points of the rocks which lay out, and which I was obliged to double with my boat, as is said above, I was surprised to see the sea all smooth and quiet - no rippling, no motion, no current, any more there than in other plac-es.
-- I asked him if he knew to what height of improvement he had brought the plantation, and whether he thought it might be worth looking after; or whether, on my going thither, I should meet with any ob-struction to my possessing my just right in the moiety.
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