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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- as Dr. Meade mounted the platform and spread out hisarms for quiet.
-- His shoulders were sagging and his head bowed until his gray beard spread out fanlikeon his chest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaster,--using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.
-- She had her back towards me, and held her pretty brown hair spread out in her two hands, and never looked round, and passed out of my view directly.
-- The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together.
-- Miss Havisham was taking exercise in the room with the long spread table, leaning on her crutch stick.
-- And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robbers sitting round it making merry.'
-- 'Now, this jam shall be blessed by God,' cried the little tailor, 'and give me health and strength'; so he brought the bread out of the cupboard, cut himself a piece right across the loaf and spread the jam over it.
-- And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar.
-- Everything was spruce and neat in the cottage: on the table was spread a white cloth, and there were seven little plates, seven little loaves, and seven little glasses with wine in them; and seven knives and forks 177laid in order; and by the wall stood seven little beds.
-- And the snow fell and spread a beautiful white covering over the grave; but by the time the spring came, and the sun had melted it away again, her father had married another wife.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petti-coat spread upon the ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver.
-- As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious peo-ple to see me; so that the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have en-sued, if his imperial majesty had not provided, by several proclamations and orders of state, against this inconve-niency.
-- Sometimes they de-termined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
-- He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground with the palm upward, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness.
-- I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his hand-kerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home; where the queen was soon informed of what had passed, and the footmen spread it about the court: so that all the mirth for some days was at my expense.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt as though she would have been glad that it rang on until daylight; but it ceased, and the circles of its last sound spread out fainter and wider in the air, and all was dead again.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spread it before me on the table, I passed my finger over each letter, I spelled it through; in my excitement I read it out.
-- As a true nephew of the great Professor Hardwigg, and despite my preoccupation and doleful fears of what was to come, I observed with great interest the vast collection of mineralogical curiosities spread out before me in this vast museum of natural history.
-- The great and wondrous phenomenon then went on without violence--the outpouring was enormous, and the seething fused matter, ejected from the bowels of the earth, spread slowly and peacefully in the form of vast level plains, or what are called mamelons or mounds.
-- I saw him, his arms spread out to their widest extent, his legs stretched apart, standing upright before an enormous pedestal, high enough and black enough to bear a gigantic statue of Pluto.
-- Lost in a vast labyrinth, the sinuosities of which spread in every direction, without guide, clue or compass, I knew it was a vain and useless task to attempt flight.
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：
-- Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrow-ing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.
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