enlarge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 扩大， 放大， 增大，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：
-- His first care was to enlarge the bunkers to carry as much coal as possible, for it is difficult to get fresh supplies en route.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He loves, to enlarge on these absurd histories.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was one point which Mr Swiveller deemed it unnecessary to enlarge upon, and that was the fact of the modest quencher, which, by reason of its intrinsic strength and its coming close upon the heels of the temperate beverage he had discussed at dinner, awakened a slight degree of fever, and rendered necessary two or three other modest quenchers at the public-house in the course of the evening.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he began to enlarge on his encounters with the new institutions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Noticing stealthily that Avdotya Romanovna was following his words with close at-tention, Zossimov allowed himself to enlarge on this theme.
-- Warming up, Katerina Ivanovna proceeded to enlarge on the peaceful and happy life they would lead in T , on the gymnasium teachers whom she would engage to give lessons in her boarding-school, one a most respect-able old Frenchman, one Mangot, who had taught Katerina Ivanovna herself in old days and was still living in T , and would no doubt teach in her school on moderate terms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 82I Enlarge My Circle of AcquaintanceCHAPTER VII .
-- 82CHAPTER VII Enlarge My Circle of AcquaintanceI HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the woodenleg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, fromwhich I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr.Creakle and the boys.
-- It was a great relief to me todo this, and to enlarge on the obligation that I owed to Steerforthfor his care of me when I was unable to take care of myself.
-- I had no need to enlarge upon it, if I had hadthe right.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon which I shall desire liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little.
-- I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignifi-cant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
-- I could, with great pleasure, enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this excellent people; but intending in a short time to publish a volume by itself, expressly upon that subject, I refer the reader thither; and, in the mean time, proceed to relate my own sad catastrophe.
-- But I had another reason, which made me less forward to enlarge his majesty's dominions by my discoveries.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur could not easily place himself in the position of a person who had not the power to choose, I will go here to-morrow, or there next day; I will pass these barriers, I will enlarge those bounds.
-- He remarked with his utmost politeness, that he must beg to protest against its being supposed, even by Mrs Merdle, the accomplished and graceful (to which compliment she bent herself), that such enterprises as Mr Merdle's, apart as they were from the puny undertakings of the rest of men, had any lower tendency than to enlarge and expand the genius in which they were conceived.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made no advances whatever; appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must observe, too, that at first this was a confused heap of goods, which, as they lay in no order, so they took up all my place; I had no room to turn myself: so I set my-self to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it: and so when I found I was pretty safe as to beasts of prey, I worked sideways, to the right hand, into the rock; and then, turning to the right again, worked quite out, and made me a door to come out on the outside of my pale or fortification.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Couldn't we enlarge it, hollow it out, make openings to let in light and air?"
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