confinement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 限制，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it.
-- No sooner was the acquittal pronounced, than tears were shed as freely as blood at another time, and such fraternal embraces were bestowed upon the prisoner by as many of both sexes as could rush at him, that after his long and unwholesome confinement he was in danger of faint-ing from exhaustion; none the less because he knew very well, that the very same people, carried by another current, 407would have rushed at him with the very same intensity, to rend him to pieces and strew him over the streets.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.
-- "A successful confinement yesterday."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bless you, bless you!Some futuretraveller, visiting, from motives of curiosity, not unmingled, let ushope, with sympathy, the place of confinement allotted to debtorsin this city, and may I trust will, Ponder, as he traces on its wall,inscribed with a rusty nail.
-- I found them to be the perfect isolation of 784prisoners- so that no one man in confinement there, knew anythingabout another; and the reduction of prisoners to a wholesome stateof mind, leading to sincere contrition and repentance.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sitting long after dinner, was a confinement that he could not endure.
-- These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclu-sion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, be-sides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis confinement during Her Majesty's pleasure."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you had brought up your adopted daughter wholly in the dark confinement of these rooms, and had never let her know that there was such a thing as the daylight by which she had never once seen your face,--if you had done that, and then, for a purpose had wanted her to understand the daylight and know all about it, you would have been disappointed and angry?"
-- As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days--an object like the ghost of a walking-cane, which instantly broke its back if it were touched, which nothing could ever be lighted at, and which was placed in solitary confinement at the bottom of a high tin tower, perforated with round holes that made a staringly wide-awake pattern on the walls.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During my confinement for want of clothes, and by an indisposition that held me some days longer, I much en-202 Gulliver's Travelslarged my dictionary; and when I went next to court, was able to understand many things the king spoke, and to return him some kind of answers.
-- The wives and daughters lament their confinement to the island, although I think it the most delicious spot of ground in the world; and although they live here in the greatest plen-ty and magnificence, and are allowed to do whatever they please, they long to see the world, and take the diversions of the metropolis, which they are not allowed to do without a particular license from the king; and this is not easy to be obtained, because the people of quality have found, by frequent experience, how hard it is to persuade their wom-en to return from below.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad--simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that long imprisonment here, and in her own long confinement to her room, did his mother find a balance to be struck?
-- I have lain in prison for security, with the place of my confinement kept a secret, lest I should be torn out of it and felled by a hundred blows.
-- If it is any compensation for my long confinement within these narrow limits not that I complain of being afflicted; you know I never complain of that if it is any compensation to me for long confinement to this room, that while I am shut up from all pleasant change I am also shut up from the knowledge of some things that I may prefer to avoid knowing, why should you, of all men, grudge me that belief?'
-- A blessing beyond appreciation would be conferred upon mankind, if the tainted, in whose weakness or wickedness these virulent disorders are bred, could be instantly seized and placed in close confinement (not to say summarily smothered) before the poison is communicable.
-- To hint to him that this confinement in his eye was disagreeable, or to ask him what he meant, was an act too daring to venture upon; his severity with his employers and their visitors being terrific, and he never permitting himself to be approached with the slightest liberty.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Not all the time, too much confinement makes you ner-vous, and then you are unfitted for everything.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was certain, however, that somebody was coming, Bingley instantly prevailed on Miss Bennet to avoid the confinement of such an intrusion, and walk away with him into the shrubbery.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During this confinement in my cover by the rain, I worked daily two or three hours at enlarging my cave, and by degrees worked it on towards one side, till I came to the outside of the hill, and made a door or way out, which came beyond my fence or wall; and so I came in and out this way.
-- They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have pro-visions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the en-trance.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
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