close是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 关； 结束a. /ad. 近的(地) ； 紧密的(地)，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.
-- The cur-tains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your el-bow.
-- Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance.
-- 'You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day.'
-- He sat very close to his father's side upon his little stool.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
-- They had stopped when the coach stopped, and they kept close company with it.
-- The passenger booked by this history, was on the coach-step, getting in; the two other passengers were close behind him, and about to follow.
-- He wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass.
-- So close was her hold upon his arm, that he feared to de-tach himself lest he should hurt her; therefore he called out loudly for assistance without moving.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a dirty little room close by the pigsty; and there he sat the whole day, and worked.
-- 'What can be the reason for such a crowd close by the pigsty?'
-- They lie close to the door.'
-- Close by stood a boy who dashed his stick into a wet ditch.
-- The copying-clerk, or, as the lady said, the brown field-bird, was put into a small cage, close to the Canary, and not far from 'my good Polly.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had finished his letters, Stepan Arkadyevitch moved the office-papers close to him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, turned to his coffee.
-- As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
-- But here it seemed to Levin that just as they were close upon the real point of the matter, they were again retreating, and he made up his mind to put a question to the professor.
-- A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life!And how aloof and remote from him she had become now!
-- He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his feet close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his hands resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect; he was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the years.
-- They ordered two bottles of port, to which the Frenchman did ample justice, whilst Fix observed him with close attention.
-- This "great attraction" was to close the performance.
-- What a journey!The travellers, huddled close together, could not speak for the cold, intensified by the rapidity at which they were going.
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