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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a kind of large drone, an inch long, and the Indians call it "tuco-tuco."
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：
-- Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across.
-- 'You have presented an inch or two of it to my examina- tion all the time that you have been talking.
-- He was carefully examining the foolscap, upon which the words were pasted, holding it only an inch or two from his eyes.
-- 'Every inch of it.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
-- "There's two women there, and I've stabbed every inch of it with this little beef slicer.
-- It creaked, and the seat was depressed the quarter of an inch or so.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He worked his way desperately, inch by inch, straight for the reservoirs, halting in silence.
-- Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
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：
-- Duncan soon detected their searching, but stolen, looks which, in truth, scanned his person and attire inch by inch; leaving no emotion of the countenance, no gesture, no line of the paint, nor even the fashion of a garment, unheeded, and without comment.
-- The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd thrash him within an inch of his life."
-- "He thrashed me within an inch of my life, and then he made me marry Captain Johnson.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller replied by taking from his pocket a small and very greasy parcel, slowly unfolding it, and displaying a little slab of plum-cake extremely indigestible in appearance, and bordered with a paste of white sugar an inch and a half deep.
-- CHAPTER 64Tossing to and fro upon his hot, uneasy bed; tormented by a fierce thirst which nothing could appease; unable to find, in any change of posture, a moment's peace or ease; and rambling, ever, through deserts of thought where there was no resting-place, no sight or sound suggestive of refreshment or repose, nothing but a dull eternal weariness, with no change but the restless shiftings of his miserable body, and the weary wandering of his mind, constant still to one ever-present anxiety to a sense of something left undone, of some fearful obstacle to be surmounted, of some carking care that would not be driven away, and which haunted the distempered brain, now in this form, now in that, always shadowy and dim, but recognisable for the same phantom in every shape it took: darkening every vision like an evil conscience, and making slumber horrible in these slow tortures of his dread disease, the unfortunate Richard lay wasting and consuming inch by inch, until, at last, when he seemed to fight and struggle to rise up, and to be held down by devils, he sank into a deep sleep, and dreamed no more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a hole in each door--eyelet, so called--of about an inch in diameter.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I expected to finish it on Friday; but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- for each square inch of its surface.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never moved but what, if there was any danger of his conduct being misconstrued or ill-reported, he looked carefully about him and counted the cost of every inch of conspicuity.
-- A group of twelve were assigned pretty golden-hued skirts which came only to a line about an inch above the knee.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an inch of new snow on the ground, and I seen somebody's tracks.
-- It was according to the old saying, 'Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an ell.'
-- Look at that shirt every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ'n done with blood!
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