toward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 向， 对于， 将近, 接近 a. 即将到来的, 进行中的，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, offering his arm to Aouda, he directed his steps toward the docks in search of some craft about to start.
-- There were some signs of a calm at noon, and these became more distinct as the sun descended toward the horizon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the brisk attack of one who wishes to escape the discussion of his guilt, the Doc rumbled while he waddled toward his desk-chair: "What you doing here, young fella?
-- Dr. Brumfit rattled: "I'm sufficiently liberal, I should assume, toward the claims of science, but with a man like Gottlieb--I'm prepared to believe that he knows all about material forces, but what astounds me is that such a man can be blind to the vital force that creates all others.
-- Martin tramped toward his boarding- house through a veiled spring night.
-- He drifted toward the distant medical campus.
-- But week slipped into careless and robust week, and when he awoke in a stable, smelling the sweet hay and the horses and the lark-ringing prairie that crept near to the heart of these shanty towns, he cared only for the day's work, the day's hiking, westward toward the sunset.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought, as they came toward us, that they werewell matched even in that particular.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resolved in my minds the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my prog-ress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure.
-- Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.
-- And after an interval a tall black boy of their own age ran breathlessly around thehouse and out toward the tethered horses.
-- Seeing no broad black face, turbaned in snowywhite, peering disapprovingly from between fluttering curtains, she boldly snatched up her green flowered skirts andsped down the path toward the driveway as fast as her small ribbon-laced slippers would carry her.
-- Scarlett knew these hurriedpreenings were being made with an eye toward meeting his wife with the appearance of a gentleman who had riddensedately home from a call on a neighbor.
-- He dismounted with difficulty, because his knee was stiff, and,slipping the reins over his arm, stumped toward her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable sup-ply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.
-- It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are en-nobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom.
-- He then commanded his men to row up to that side, and fastening a cable to one of the sta-ples, ordered them to tow my chest, as they called it, toward the ship.
-- I waved my cap (for my hat was long since worn out) and my handkerchief toward the island; and upon its nearer approach, I called and shout-ed with the utmost strength of my voice; and then looking circumspectly, I beheld a crowd gather to that side which 196 Gulliver's Travelswas most in my view.
-- The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred 209yards distant from the centre.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other street, situated more to the west, runs toward a little lake between the residences of the bishop and the other personages not engaged in commerce.
-- "Exactly, my observant nephew," exclaimed my uncle, elated and delighted, "and it is quite probable that if we succeed in getting toward the polar regions --somewhere near the seventy-third degree of latitude, where Sir James Ross discovered the magnetic pole, we shall behold the needle point directly upward.
-- Having said this, I advanced toward the opening of the somber gallery.
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：
-- On the strength of her anger, Hilda warmed toward Clif-ford.
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