verge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 边缘, 边界，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throughout the night Aouda, full of sad forebodings, her heart stifled with anguish, wandered about on the verge of the plains.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They've already lessened the terrors of meningitis and pneumonia, and yellow fever is on the verge of complete abolition through Noguchi's work, and I have no doubt their hospital, with its enormous resources and splendidly co- operating minds, will be the first to find something to alleviate diabetes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And by the bye, it used to beuncommonly strange to me to consider, I remember, as I sat inCourt too, how those dim old judges and doctors wouldn't havecared for Dora, if they had known her; how they wouldn't havegone out of their senses with rapture, if marriage with Dora hadbeen proposed to them, how Dora might have sung and playedupon that glorified guitar, until she led me to the verge ofmadness, yet not have tempted one of those slow-goers an inch outof his road!
-- Drew idealpicture of D. C.on verge of tomb.
-- You will allow me, as a privateindividual, to decline pursuing a subject which has lashed me tothe utmost verge of desperation in my professional capacity.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.
-- SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD"Ah, Miss Everdene!"
-- She reached the verge of a pit in the middle of the ferns.
-- He was buttoning on a heavy grey overcoat of Noachian cut, with cape and high collar, the latter being erect and rigid, like a girdling wall, and nearly reaching to the verge of a travelling cap which was pulled down over his ears.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the one hand, he beheld a vision of social life in its most charming and refined forms, of quick-pulsed youth, of fair, impassioned faces invested with all the charm of poetry, framed in a marvelous setting of luxury or art; and, on the other hand, he saw a sombre picture, the miry verge beyond these faces, in which passion was extinct and nothing was left of the drama but the cords and pulleys and bare mechanism.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His tale had occupied the whole day, and the sun was upon the verge of the horizon when he departed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the otherand stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he wanted the candles close to him, and as he was always on the verge of putting either his head or the newspaper into them, he required as much watching as a powder-mill.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They made signs for me to come down from the rock, and go towards the shore, which I accordingly did; and the flying island being raised to a convenient height, the verge directly over me, a chain was let down from the lowest gal-lery, with a seat fastened to the bottom, to which I fixed myself, and was drawn up by pulleys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yielding at length, if any concession so sullenly made can be called yielding, to the entreaties of Sissy for Louisa he disowned altogether he came down, bench by bench, until he stood in the sawdust, on the verge of the circle, as far as possible, within its limits from where his father sat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who knows but I may be on the verge of some great discovery?"
-- "What!Give up just as we are on the verge of success?"
-- "Harry," he cried, "we are now on the verge of a great discovery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a quarter before six that evening raise the sum of eight pounds.
-- Mr Sparkler, in absence of mind perhaps in a more literal absence of mind than is usually understood by the phrase had smelt so hard at a sprig in his hand as to be on the verge of the offence in question.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned scarlet and was on the verge of crying, when she met Laurie's eyes, which would look merry in spite of his heroic efforts.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mouth had the expression at times, in talking and in repose, of one who might be upon the verge of tears.
-- She could play only moderately herself, and such variety as Mrs. Vance exercised bordered, for Carrie, upon the verge of great art.
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