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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took it up, and held it close to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it.
-- He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
-- Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.
-- I don't know exactly what's the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the house; a sort of sick, and yet he don't look so.
-- "Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he h ad been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.
-- The shop was close and hot.
-- There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
-- When the night came, he turned into a meadow; and, creeping close under a hay-rick, determined to lie there, till morning.
-- He took little heed of this at first; but the boy remained in the same attitude of close observation so long, that Oliver raised his head, and returned his steady look.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Long told me last night that he sat close to her for half-an-hour without once opening his lips.'
-- In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there; his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely pleased to close his large book, and go.
-- At that moment, Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass through the set to the other side of the room; but on perceiving Mr. Darcy, he stopped with a bow of superior courtesy to compliment him on his dancing and his partner.
-- He assured her, that as to dancing, he was per-fectly indifferent to it; that his chief object was by delicate attentions to recommend himself to her and that he should therefore make a point of remaining close to her the whole evening.
-- After discharg-ing his conscience on that head, he proceeded to inform them, with many rapturous expressions, of his happiness in having obtained the affection of their amiable neighbour, Miss Lucas, and then explained that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at Longbourn, whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight; for Lady Catherine, he added, so heartily approved his mar-riage, that she wished it to take place as soon as possible, which he trusted would be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early day for making him the happiest of men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pet, however, being close behind him, touched him on the shoulder, and Mr Meagles immediately forgave Marseilles from the bottom of his heart.
-- Tattycoram, stick you close to your young mistress.'
-- They may be coming hundreds, thousands, of miles over the sea there; they may be close at hand now; they may be coming, for anything you know or anything you can do to prevent it, from the vilest sweepings of this very town.'
-- Miles of close wells and pits of houses, where the inhabitants gasped for air, stretched far away towards every point of the compass.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hannah hated rain as much as a cat does so she made no trouble, and they rolled away in the luxurious close car-riage, feeling very festive and elegant.
-- Fred was close behind her and his turn came before hers.
-- 'You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me.'
-- He stood so still that a squirrel, busy with it's harvesting, ran dawn a pine close beside him, saw him suddenly and skipped back, scolding so shrilly that Beth looked up, espied the wistful face behind the birches, and beckoned with a reassuring smile.
-- Too weak to wonder at anything, she only smiled and nestled close in the loving arms about her, feel-ing that the hungry longing was satisfied at last.
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