spread是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 伸开， 伸展； 散布， 传播，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 now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
-- The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a mo-ment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were.
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：
-- And the court-ladies placed themselves in front of her, and spread out their dresses the swineherd got ten kisses, and the Princess the kitchen-pot.
-- It related the mythus of its birth, told of the power of the sun-light that spread out its delicate leaves, and forced them to impreg-nate the air with their incense and then he thought of the manifold struggles of life, which in like manner awaken the budding flowers of feeling in our bosom.
-- 'Then I should be able to spread out my branches, and with the tops to look into the wide world!Then would the birds build nests among my branches: and when there was a breeze, I could bend with as much stateliness as the others!'
-- 'That is still better than to cross the sea!What a longing do I suffer!Were Christmas but come!I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!Oh!were I but already on the cart!Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?
-- 'Now, then, I shall really enjoy life,' said he exultingly, and spread out his branches; but, alas, they were all with-ered and yellow!It was in a corner that he lay, among weeds and nettles.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince had spread out near him his purchases, carved boxes, and knick-knacks, paper-knives of all sorts, of which he bought a heap at every watering-place, and bestowed them upon everyone, including Lieschen, the servant girl, and the landlord, with whom he jested in his comically bad German, assuring him that it was not the water had cured Kitty, but his splendid cookery, especially his plum soup.
-- And in answer to this question a burning blush of shame spread over her face.
-- Again a flush of shame spread over her face; she recalled his composure, and a feeling of anger against him impelled her to tear the sheet with the phrase she had written into tiny bits.
-- He cut off and spread with cheese a wafer of bread fine as a spider-web.
-- She was sitting on a chest and making some arrangements with her maid, sorting over heaps of dresses of different colors, spread on the backs of chairs and on the floor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and afforded an exciting topic of conversation to its members.
-- The best of fare was spread upon the cabin tables at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the eight o'clock supper, and the ladies scrupulously changed their toilets twice a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games.
-- IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOESEverybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
-- The news quickly spread through the train, which contained about one hundred passengers, thirty of whom, at most, attracted by the notice, ensconced themselves in car No.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But so far as possible have everything in sanitary- looking white-- and think of the color-schemes you can evolve, or the good wife for you, if she be one blessed with artistic tastes!Rich golden or red cushions, in a Morris chair enameled the purest white!A floor-covering of white enamel, with just a border of delicate rose!Recent and unspotted numbers of expensive magazines, with art covers, lying on a white table!Gentlemen, there is the idea of imaginative salesmanship which I wish to leave with you; there is the gospel which I hope to spread in my fresh field of endeavor, the New Idea Instrument Company of Jersey City, where at any time I shall be glad to see and shake by the hand any and all of you."
-- During Clean-up Week, Pickerbaugh spread abroad a new lyric of his own composition: Germs come by stealth And ruin health, So listen, pard, Just drop a card To some man who'll clean up your yard And that will hit the old germs hard.
-- Martin cured rabbits of pleuro-pneumonia by the injection of phage, and by feeding them with it he prevented the spread of pneumonia.
-- He found that rats fed with phage failed to come down with plague; that after phage-feeding, Bacillus pestis disappeared from carrier rats which, without themselves being killed thereby, harbored and spread chronic plague; and that, finally, he could cure the disease.
-- Most of them were still fishermen and plantation-foremen, but one of them, Kellett, a man small-mouthed and angry and industrious, had risen from office-boy to owner of a shipping company, and while his father still spread his nets on the beach at Point Carib, Kellett was the scourge of the House of Assembly and a hound for economy--particularly any economy which would annoy his fellow legislator, George William Vertigan.
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：
-- She knows everyone in the neighbourhood, and that month she was continually coming into the town, and as she is rather talkative and fond of gossiping about her family affairs and particularly of complaining to all and each of her husband which is not at all right so in a short time she had spread her story not only in the town, but over the whole surrounding dis-trict.
-- cried the little boy on the chair sud-denly, after which he relapsed into the same dumb rigidity, with round eyes, his heels thrust forward and his toes spread out.
-- 'Your mamma seems to have entirely for-gotten that I made up my mind to take you, so to speak, after the gossip of the town had spread all over the district in regard to your reputation.
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