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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aouda did not once close her eyes.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The students who had learned to look through the microscope without having to close one eye were proud and professional, and all of them talked of the beauty of identifying the bacillus, as they twiddled the brass thumbscrews to the right focus and the cells rose from cloudiness to sharp distinctness on the slides before them.
-- But if he had not ripened, yet he was close to earth, he did hate pretentiousness, he did use his hands, and he did seek iron actualities with a curiosity inextinguishable.
-- That means, when the time's ripe, we'll offer him eighteen and close for twenty-one-seventy-five.
-- "That was an awful' close thing!"
-- If he said that fresh air was a good thing, instead of making me open my windows it'd make me or any other reasonable person close 'em.
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：
-- Look-ing round, he noticed that he was standing close to a tavern which was entered by steps leading from the pavement to the basement.
-- From the inner rooms clouds of tobacco smoke floated in, she kept cough-ing, but did not close the door.
-- Taking no further notice of him, she walked towards the outer door to close it and uttered a sudden scream on 40 Crime and Punishmentseeing her husband on his knees in the doorway.
-- She had on a dress of some light silky ma-terial, but put on strangely awry, not properly hooked up, and torn open at the top of the skirt, close to the waist: a great piece was rent and hanging loose.
-- He used to cling close to his father, trem-bling all over when he met them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years'imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know howsorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' 8imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissingsome portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd ofthe creatures of his brain are going from him for ever.
-- She gently chid me for being rude; and, keeping me close to her shawl, turned to thank the gentleman for taking so much trouble as to bring her home.
-- A squareness about the lower part of his face, and the dottedindication of the strong black beard he shaved close every day,reminded me of the wax-work that had travelled into ourneighbourhood some half a year before.
-- I don't know thatI supposed anything of the kind, but I felt it an act of gallantry tosay something; and a shining sail close to us made such a prettylittle image of itself, at the moment, in her bright eye, that it cameinto my head to say this.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from Mrs. God-dard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.
-- It will give you every thing that you want consideration, independence, a proper home it will fix you in the centre of all your real friends, close to Hartfield and to me, and confirm our inti-macy for ever.
-- A few inferior dwellings were first to be passed, and then, about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the Vicarage, an old and not very good house, almost as close to the road as it could be.
-- She was obliged to leave the door ajar as she found it; but she fully intended that Mr. Elton should close it.
-- This topic was discussed very happily, and others suc-ceeded of similar moment, and passed away with similar harmony; but the evening did not close without a little re-turn of agitation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change at the root of this has been the recent supplanting of the class of stationary cottagers, who carried on the local traditions and humours, by a population of more or less migratory labourers, which has led to a break of continuity in local history, more fatal than any other thing to the preservation of legend, folk-lore, close inter-social relations, and eccentric individualities.
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- A close examination of the ground hereabout, even by the wan starlight only, revealed how a portion of what would have been casually called a wild slope had been appropriated by Farmer Oak for his great purpose this winter.
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