width是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 宽阔, 宽度，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：
-- Her rounded bow, the width of her hold, and her heavy stern, made her a bad sailor, the perfect type of a wooden shoe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly they stopped again, paused, struck out the time afresh, formed into lines the width of the public way, and, with their heads low down and their hands high up, swooped screaming off.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD"From ocean to ocean" so say the Americans; and these four words compose the general designation of the "great trunk line" which crosses the entire width of the United States.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A gravel walk leading from the door to the road in front was encrusted at the sides with more moss here it was a silver-green variety, the nut-brown of the gravel being visible to the width of only a foot or two in the centre.
-- The broad steely sea, marked only by faint lines, which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front and round to the right, where, near the town and port of Budmouth, the sun bristled down upon it, and banished all colour, to substitute in its place a clear oily polish.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was home again, separated fromher only by the width of the parlor rug, and it took all her strength not to dissolve in happy tears every time she lookedat him sitting there on the sofa with Melly on one side and India on the other and Honey hanging over his shoulder.
-- The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty-five miles of dusty road.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- The width of the Gulf Stream there is seventy-five miles, and its depth 210 yards.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the horses dared not do so, and stood neighing upon its brink, for the width frightened them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its width it was impossible to make out; the shore, on either hand, widening rapidly until lost to sight; while its length was equally uncertain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another minute, Mr Pancks's arms were on the desk, and Mr Pancks's head was bowed down upon them; and for some time they remained in these attitudes, idle and silent, with the width of the little room between them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.
-- The largest, a middle one, is in width something less than three feet, and in depth more than four.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The firm of Speigelheim & Co., makers of boys' caps, occupied one floor of the building, fifty feet in width and some eighty feet in depth.
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