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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an artificial light, almost close at hand.
-- Oak stepped up behind, where, leaning down upon the roof and putting his eye close to a hole, he could see into the interior clearly.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
-- Father Goriot, seated at the lower end of the table, close to the door through which the servant entered, raised his face; he had smelt at a scrap of bread that lay under his table napkin, an old trick acquired in his commercial capacity, that still showed itself at times.
-- Just at that moment Father Goriot appeared close to the gate; he had emerged from a door at the foot of the back staircase.
-- Goriot established himself in the Rue de la Jussienne, close to the Corn Exchange.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with ir-regular steps, not daring to look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
-- I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore of-ten, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forev-er.
-- I trembled with rage and horror, resolving to wait his approach and then close with him in mortal combat.
-- 'My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I im-proved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I com-prehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.
-- I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the pad-dling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Calvert was standing close by the side of his Yankee wife,who even after fifteen years in Georgia never seemed to quite belong anywhere.
-- Her heavyearbobs with their long gold fringe hung down from loops of tidily netted hair, swinging close to her brown eyes, eyesthat had the still gleam of a forest pool in winter when brown leaves shine up through quiet water.
-- Stuart Tarleton, brows lowering, came forward with Brent close at his heels.
-- Several of the proud mothers of members of the militia were standing close by and overheard the remark.
-- She pinned the wrapper close about her throat, lit her bedside candle and hurried down the dark stairs into thefront hall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village--a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
-- We begin to close in upon 'em about dusk.
-- The sergeant ran in first, when we had run the noise quite down, and two of his men ran in close upon him.
-- Close up here."
-- I could see nothing of the room except the shining of the fire in the window-glass, but I stiffened in all my joints with the consciousness that I was under close inspection.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
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