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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the other side of the strait, in Terra del Fuego, stood Mount Sarmiento, towering to a height of 6,000 feet, an enormous accumulation of rocks, separated by bands of cloud, forming a sort of aerial archipelago in the sky.
-- Paganel was rather disconcerted at finding no way out to the other side of the chain, and laid his account with having to undergo great fatigue before the topmost peaks of the Andes could be reached, for their mean height is between eleven and twelve thousand six hundred feet.
-- They had a frightful height to climb yet to gain the topmost peaks.
-- Between that height and the ground is where we must search, dividing the different zones among us, and it is there we shall find him."
-- His great height gave him a commanding view of the whole horizon; but after a keen rapid survey, he quickly resumed his seat and went on.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is much attached to her, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life without her, but it would seem the height of selfishness if he were to stand in the way of her making so brilliant a marriage.
-- I could merely see the outline, but his height told me that it was Barrymore.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here,' laughed Lebedeff, at last, rising to his full height and looking pleasantly at the prince, 'here, in the lining of my coat.
-- Nina Alexandrovna and Lebedeff tried to persuade him to have the wedding in St. Petersburg, instead of in the public fashion contemplated, down here at Pav-lofsk in the height of the season.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From that height you could see across the tops of the trees down to the plain below; but what Mowgli looked at was the sides of the ravine, and he saw with a great deal of satisfaction that they ran nearly straight up and down, while the vines and creepers that hung over them would give no foothold to a tiger who want-ed to get out.
-- 'He is afraid of me also,' said Little Toomai, standing up to his full height of four feet, with only one rag upon him.
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：
-- The scout, while making his remarks, was busied in col-lecting certain necessary implements; as he concluded, he moved silently by the group of travelers, accompanied by the Mohicans, who seemed to comprehend his intentions with instinctive readiness, when the whole three disap-peared in succession, seeming to vanish against the dark face of a perpendicular rock that rose to the height of a few yards, within as many feet of the water's edge.
-- If you had daylight, it would be worth the trouble to step up on the height of this rock, and look at the perversity of the water.
-- Happily, he soon succeeded in disarming his ad-versary, whose knife fell on the rock at their feet; and from this moment it became a fierce struggle who should cast the other over the dizzy height into a neighboring cavern of the falls.
-- That!that is the print of a foot, but 'tis the dark-hair's; and small it is, too, for one of such a noble height and grand appearance.
-- In the height of the mountains which surround it, and in artificial accessories, it is inferior to the finest of the Swiss and Ital-ian lakes, while in outline and purity of water it is fully their equal; and in the number and disposition of its isles and is-lets much superior to them all together.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet.
-- Towards midday the balloon was hovering above the sea at a height of only 2,000 feet.
-- As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1,500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
-- Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite, he shook himself vigorously; and then, setting off running, soon disappeared behind a rocky point, which projected to nearly the height of the northern extremity of the islet.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, we set out from Pampeluna with our guide on the 15th of November; and indeed I was surprised when, instead of going forward, he came directly back with us on the same road that we came from Madrid, about twen-ty miles; when, having passed two rivers, and come into the plain country, we found ourselves in a warm climate again, where the country was pleasant, and no snow to be seen; but, on a sudden, turning to his left, he approached the mountains another way; and though it is true the hills and precipices looked dreadful, yet he made so many tours, such meanders, and led us by such winding ways, that we insensibly passed the height of the mountains without being much encumbered with the snow; and all on a sudden he showed us the pleasant and fruitful provinces of Languedoc and Gascony, all green and flourishing, though at a great distance, and we had some rough way to pass still.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the height of her morality, good woman!she offered to forgive the past, if I would marry Eliza.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's So-and-so over there," was a common remark of these gentlemen among themselves, particularly among those who had not yet reached, but hoped to do so, the dazzling height which money to dine here lavishly represented.
-- In the height of this feeling he began to think his luck was with him.
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