inch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 英寸，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eager faces strained round pillars and corners, to get a sight of him; spectators in back rows stood up, not to miss a hair of him; people on the floor of the court, laid their hands 85on the shoulders of the people before them, to help them-selves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him stood a-tiptoe, got upon ledges, stood upon next to nothing, to see every inch of him.
-- The same cautious counsel directed every step that lay before him, and had prepared every inch of his road.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well can she recall per-sons to our mind, of whom we have not thought for years; when suddenly they step forth 'every inch a man,' resem-bling the real personages, even to the finest features, and become the heroes or heroines of our world of dreams.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The car was at first too well arranged to be interesting, but after three days, as he approached you on the flat road that without an inch of curving was slashed for leagues through the grassy young wheat, you saw the doctor in his khaki suit, his horn-rimmed spectacles, and white linen boating hat; his wife in a green flannel blouse and a lace boudoir cap.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The queen who mended her stockings in prison,' he thought, 'must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and lev脙漏es.'
-- I ought to have stud-ied, but I sold my books; and the dust lies an inch thick on the notebooks on my table.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Have it carried half a quarter of an inch towardsthe temple,' said Miss Mowcher.
-- Mrs. Crupp shookher head in such a determined manner, that I had not an inch of'vantage-ground left.
-- And by the bye, it used to beuncommonly strange to me to consider, I remember, as I sat inCourt too, how those dim old judges and doctors wouldn't havecared for Dora, if they had known her; how they wouldn't havegone out of their senses with rapture, if marriage with Dora hadbeen proposed to them, how Dora might have sung and playedupon that glorified guitar, until she led me to the verge ofmadness, yet not have tempted one of those slow-goers an inch outof his road!
-- He assented to this in the mostearnest manner; and implored me, if I should see him wanderingan inch out of the right course, to recall him by some of thosesuperior methods which were always at my command.
-- Wecame to Ipswich- very late, having had to fight every inch ofground since we were ten miles out of London, and found a clusterof people in the market-place, who had risen from their beds in thenight, fearful of falling chimneys.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Cautious, very cautious,' thought Emma; 'he advances inch by inch, and will hazard nothing till he believes him-self secure.'
-- He had gone be-yond the sweep some way along the Highbury road the snow was nowhere above half an inch deep in many places hardly enough to whiten the ground; a very few flakes were 156 Emmafalling at present, but the clouds were parting, and there was every appearance of its being soon over.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking the mug he drank an inch or more from the depth of its contents, and duly passed it to the next man.
-- If ye go to the right or left but an inch you stab the ewe and kill her.
-- She sidled off inch by inch, the lantern in her hand, till she could see the redness of his coat no longer.
-- In ascending to her own chamber, Bathsheba opened the girl's door an inch or two, and, panting, said "Liddy, is any soldier staying in the village sergeant somebody rather gentlemanly for a sergeant, and good looking a red coat with blue facings?"
-- I merely gave point to your bosom where the caterpillar was, and instead of running you through checked the extension a thousandth of an inch short of your surface."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I asked, determined not to yield an inch of the fire.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.
-- I entreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and the nature of it: and the next day the waggoners arrived with it, but not in a very good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks were tied by a long cord to the harness, and thus my hat was dragged along for above half an Eng-lish mile; but, the ground in that country being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I expected.
-- As the common size of the natives is somewhat un-der six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several grada-tions downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
-- The sempstresses took my measure as I lay on the ground, one standing at my neck, and another at my mid-leg, with a strong cord extended, that each held by the end, while a third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long.
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