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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing.
-- He saw the ground suddenly close to his face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also had a disconnected impres-sion of a dark face, with extraordinary eyes, close to mine; but that I thought was a nightmare, until I met it again.
-- Under his stringy black locks I saw his ear; it jumped upon me suddenly close to my face.
-- I started vio-Tlently, and saw close to me a dim pinkish thing, looking more like a flayed child than anything else in the world.
-- My head reeled with this jabbering and the close stench of the place; but I kept on, trusting to find pres-ently some chance of a new development.
-- He was holding the leaping staghound back, and close be-hind him came Montgomery revolver in hand.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The baby was pushing his way between the cubs to get close to the warm hide.
-- Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth.
-- Bagheera lay close to Mowgli, and the fire pot was between Mowgli's knees.
-- Sea Catch knew that, and every spring would swim from whatever place he happened to be in would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companions for a good place on the rocks, as close to the sea as possible.
-- Then you can imagine the times that he had with his companions, ducking under the rollers; or coming in on top of a comber and landing with a swash and a splutter as the big wave went whirling far up the beach; or standing up on his tail and scratching his head as the old people did; or playing 'I'm the King of the Castle' on slippery, weedy rocks that just stuck out of the wash. Now and then he would see a thin fin, like a big shark's fin, drifting along close to shore, and he knew that that was the Killer Whale, the Grampus, who eats young seals when he can get them; and Kotick would head for the beach like an arrow, and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the for-mer, both Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on that stock of hereditary courage which we boast, even before we are made to encounter the redoubtable Montcalm.'
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
-- It would seem long practice had rendered this manual accompani-ment necessary; for it did not cease until the preposition which the poet had selected for the close of his verse had been duly delivered like a word of two syllables.
-- Behind these, the runner leaned against a tree, where he stood the close examination of the scout with an air unmoved, though with a look so dark and savage, that it might in itself excite fear.
-- 'Come, friend,' said Hawkeye, drawing out a keg from be-neath a cover of leaves, toward the close of the repast, and addressing the stranger who sat at his elbow, doing great justice to his culinary skill, 'try a little spruce; 'twill wash away all thoughts of the colt, and quicken the life in your bosom.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- Their brisk, withered little dames, in close crimped caps, long waisted short-gowns, homespun petticoats, with scis-sors and pin-cushions, and gay calico pockets hanging on the outside.
-- Just then he heard the black steed panting and blowing close behind him; he even fancied that he felt his hot breath.
-- In one part of the road leading to the church was found the saddle trampled in the dirt; the tracks of horses' hoofs deeply dented in the road, and evidently at furious speed, were traced to the bridge, beyond which, on the bank of a broad part o脜聯 the brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dog accompanied the voyagers, and was held pressed close to his master in the meshes of the net.
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