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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Lady Helena, drawing the young girl toward her, and taking both her hands and kissing the boy's rosy cheeks.
-- Lady Helena flew toward her husband the moment he alighted; but he embraced her silently, and looked gloomy and disappointed—indeed, even furious.
-- CHAPTER VI AN UNEXPECTED PASSENGERTHE ladies passed the whole of the first day of the voyage in their berths, for there was a heavy swell in the sea, and toward evening the wind blew pretty fresh, and the DUNCAN tossed and pitched considerably.
-- The captain pointed toward the foremast, and sure enough there was Robert, hanging on the yards of the topgallant mast, a hundred feet above in the air.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They backed their chariots toward the ranks, got out of them, and put off their armour, laying it down upon the ground; and the hosts were near to one another with a little space between them.
-- Priam and Idaeus then drove on toward the city lamenting and making moan, and the mules drew the body of Hector.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you're satisfied, of course " He turned and sat down, with his coat-collar toward her.
-- And suddenly the parlour door was opened, and Mr. Cuss appeared, and without glancing at her rushed at once down the steps toward the corner.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toward the sunset, I believe,' said Baloo.
-- 'I kill nothing, I am too little, but I drive goats toward such as can use them.
-- said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
-- After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar.
-- At last there were only three eggs left, and Rikki-tikki began to chuckle to himself, when he heard Darzee's wife screaming: 'Rikki-tikki, I led Nagaina toward the house, and she has gone into the veranda, and oh, come quickly she means killing!'
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 news had been brought, toward the decline of a day in midsummer, by an Indian runner, who also bore an urgent request from Munro, the commander of a work on the shore of the 'holy lake,' for a speedy and powerful reinforcement.
-- No sooner were these females seated, than their atten-dant sprang lightly into the saddle of the war-horse, when the whole three bowed to Webb, who in courtesy, awaited their parting on the threshold of his cabin and turning their horses' heads, they proceeded at a slow amble, followed by their train, toward the northern entrance of the encamp-ment.
-- He paused and turned his head quickly toward a thicket, and then bent his eyes suspiciously on their guide, who continued his steady pace, in undisturbed gravity.
-- He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
-- 'Does not this stream at our feet run toward the summer, until its waters grow salt, and the current flows upward?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was toward evening that Ichabod arrived at the cas-tle of the Heer Van Tassel, which he found thronged with the pride and flower of the adjacent country Old farmers, a spare leathern- faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buck-les.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mr Swiveller, as his companion turned toward the door.
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
-- If he should return there was no lock or bolt upon the door, and if, distrustful of having left some money yet behind, he should come back to seek for more a vague awe and horror surrounded the idea of his slinking in again with stealthy tread, and turning his face toward the empty bed, while she shrank down close at his feet to avoid his touch, which was almost insupportable.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All eyes were directed toward him.
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