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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gloomy silence spread over the prairie, and made Robert exclaim:"They're gone!"
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：
-- This he opened and spread flat upon the table.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general dropped his eyes, and elevated his brows; shrugged his shoulders, tightened his lips, spread his hands, and remained silent.
-- Little by little, the rumours spread about town became lost in a maze of uncertainty.
-- I wanted to live for the hap-piness of all men, to find and spread the truth.
-- Nothing!The sole result is that you despise me!Therefore I must be a fool, I am use-less, it is time I disappeared!And I shall leave not even a memory!Not a sound, not a trace, not a single deed!I have not spread a single truth!...
-- He had decided that it meant the network of railroads spread over the face of Europe at the present time.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my father's stables there are eleven excel-lent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
-- They stood as still as clouds which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions even so did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans.
-- He then bade Paeeon heal him, whereon Paeeon spread pain-killing herbs upon his wound and cured him, for he was not of mortal mould.
-- They spread a goodly ban-quet and feasted the whole night through, as also did the Trojans and their allies in the city.
-- When the flame had died down, he spread the embers, laid the spits on top of them, lifting them up and setting them upon the spit-racks; and he sprinkled them with salt.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So be it," said Mrs. Hall, taking up the table-cloth and beginning to spread it over the table.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be impossible to detail every step of the laps-ing of these monsters, to tell how, day by day, the human semblance left them; how they gave up bandagings and wrappings, abandoned at last every stitch of clothing; how the hair began to spread over the exposed limbs; how their foreheads fell away and their faces projected; how the quasi-human intimacy I had permitted myself with some of them in the first month of my loneliness became a shuddering horror to recall.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- They clambered up the Council Rock together, and Mowgli spread the skin out on the flat stone where Akela used to sit, and pegged it down with four slivers of bamboo, and Akela lay down upon it, and called the old call to the Council, 'Look look well, O Wolves,' exactly as he had called when Mowgli was first brought there.
-- 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.
-- The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.
-- He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening.
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：
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark cur-rent with a deeper hue.
-- In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great fresh-water lakes, may be stagnant, as you and I both know they are, having seen them; but when you come to spread water over a great tract, like the sea, where the earth is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
-- The sounds quickly spread around them in every direc-tion.
-- 'Is he a bird, to spread his wings; or is he a fish, to swim without air!The white chief read in his books, and he be-lieves the Hurons are fools!'
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