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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under this guidance a Taranaki chief gathered the scattered tribes around the same flag; a Waikato chief formed a ‘Land League,' intended to prevent the natives from selling their land to the English Government, and warlike feasts were held just as in civilized countries on the verge of revolution.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran furiously up the slope, over it, then turning eastward along a rocky valley fringed on either side with jungle I ran for perhaps a mile altogether, my chest straining, my heart beating in my ears; and then hearing nothing of Montgomery or his man, and feeling upon the verge of exhaustion, I doubled sharply back towards the beach as I judged, and lay down in the shelter of a canebrake.
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：
-- When the travelers reached the verge of the precipices they saw, at a glance, the truth of the scout's declaration, and the admirable foresight with which he had led them to their commanding station.
-- Laughing hoarsely, he made a desperate leap, and fell short of his mark, though his hands grasped a shrub on the verge of the height.
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 have been to Paris a hundred times, and it never fails to give me a thrill of excitement; I can never walk its streets without feeling myself on the verge of adventure.
-- I saw that his wife was on the verge of tears.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But nothing appeared on the farthest verge of the horizon, that is to say over a radius of more than fifty miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Mr Quilp departed with the child and Kit in a boat, and the boy revenged himself by dancing on his head at intervals on the extreme verge of the wharf, during the whole time they crossed the river.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was, he was already thirty yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when we reached the brow of the slope.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was frightened of her, underneath this safeguard of habit, frightened almost to the verge of death.
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