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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I heard a water-tight door, furnished with stopper plates, close upon us, and we were wrapped in profound darkness.
-- This sward was of close texture, and soft to the feet, and rivalled the softest carpet woven by the hand of man.
-- Ned Land was right; we were close to a vessel of which the tattered shrouds still hung from their chains.
-- We were close to Vanikoro, really the one to which Dumont d'Urville gave the name of Isle de la Recherche, and exactly facing the little harbour of Vanou, situated in 16脗掳 4' S.
-- On the 15th of May, 1824, his vessel, the St. Patrick, passed close to Tikopia, one of the New Hebrides.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Exactly," she said, to close the conversation.
-- And she wanted someone to close up this deficiency, to close it up for ever.
-- If only Birkin would form a close and abiding connection with her, she would be safe during this fretful voyage of life.
-- "Oh no, I like it awfully," laughed Ursula, a little bit excited and bewildered, because Hermione seemed to be compelling her, coming very close to her, as if intimate with her; and yet, how could she be intimate?
-- And he came close and pointed them out to her, on the sprig she held.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near close handed; and, if he had meant to flit to Thrushcross Grange, as soon as he heard of a good tenant he could not have borne to miss the chance of getting a few hundreds more.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw, but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.
-- The blind man clung close to me, holding me in one iron fist and leaning almost more of his weight on me than I could carry.
-- On the floor close to his hand there was a little round of paper, blackened on the one side.
-- They must be close by; they can't be far; you have your hands on it.
-- In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.
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