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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This had terrified the Home Secretary within an inch of his life, on several occasions.
-- 'With a hunger and thirst upon me, father, which have never been for a moment appeased; with an ardent impulse towards some region where rules, and figures, and definitions were not quite absolute; I have grown up, battling every inch of my way.'
-- 'Oh, my fellow-men, behold of what a traitor in the camp of those great spirits who are enrolled upon the holy scroll of Justice and of Union, is appropriately capable!Oh, my prostrate friends, with the galling yoke of tyrants on your necks and the iron foot of despotism treading down your fallen forms into the dust of the earth, upon which right glad would your oppressors be to see you creeping on your bellies all the days of your lives, like the serpent in the garden oh, my brothers, and shall I as a man not add, my sisters too, what do you say, now, of Stephen Blackpool, with a slight stoop in his shoulders and about five foot seven in height, as set forth in this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this pernicious placard, this abominable advertisement; and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!Yes, my compatriots, happily cast him out and sent him forth!For you remember how he stood here before you on this platform; you remember how, face to face and foot to foot, I pursued him through all his intricate windings; you remember how he sneaked and slunk, and sidled, and splitted of straws, until, with not an inch of ground to which to cling, I hurled him out from amongst us: an object for the undying finger of scorn to point at, and for the avenging fire of every free and thinking mind to scorch and scar!And now, my friends my labouring friends, for I rejoice and triumph in that stigma my friends whose hard but honest beds are made in toil, and whose scanty but independent pots are boiled in hardship; and now, I say, my friends, what appellation has that dastard craven taken to himself, when, with the mask torn from his features, he stands before us in all his native deformity, a What?
-- Every inch of the existence of mankind, from birth to death, was to be a bargain across a counter.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew every inch of that part of the coast, and promised to take us the very shortest way.
-- Do you know, that as yet, we have not penetrated one inch into the bowels of the earth."
-- Supposing while he was at work a break-up were to take place, and supposing the torrent once having gained an inch were to take an ell, and come pouring bodily through the broken rock!
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：
-- Then one afternoon came Leslie Winter, Squire Winter, as everybody called him: lean, immaculate, and seventy: and every inch a gentleman, as Mrs Bolton said to Mrs Bet-ts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speaker having folded his arms, and set in comfortably to address his depreciation of them Mails to any of the bystanders who would listen, several voices, out of pure sympathy with the sufferer, confirmed him; one voice saying to Clennam, 'They're a public nuisance, them Mails, sir;' another, 'I see one on 'em pull up within half a inch of a boy, last night;' another, 'I see one on 'em go over a cat, sir and it might have been your own mother;' and all representing, by implication, that if he happened to possess any public influence, he could not use it better than against them Mails.
-- All this time the uncle was dolefully blowing his clarionet in the corner, sometimes taking it an inch or so from his mouth for a moment while he stopped to gaze at them, with a vague impression that somebody had said something.
-- But I want that much without the trouble of going one unnecessary inch to get it.'
-- How he had felt his way inch by inch, and 'Moled it out, sir' (that was Mr Pancks's expression), grain by grain.
-- From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through squalid villages, where there was not a hovel without a gap in its filthy walls, not a window with a whole inch of glass or paper; where there seemed to be nothing to support life, nothing to eat, nothing to make, nothing to grow, nothing to hope, nothing to do but die.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them.
-- He gave a stroke, his ball hit the wicket, and stopped an inch on the wrong side.
-- No one was very near, and running up to ex-amine, he gave it a sly nudge with his toe, which put it just an inch on the right side.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.
-- His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.
-- returned Starbuck, turning round not a single inch as he spoke; still earnestly but whisperingly urging his crew; his face set like a flint from Stubb's.
-- But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
-- The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this, however, it cost us near a fortnight's time to get her along, as it were inch by inch, upon great rollers into the water; but when she was in, she would have carried twenty men with great ease.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded."
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