adjacent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 邻接的, 邻近的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dutch navigator concluded that these islands were adjacent to the islands of the same name on the east of Terra del Fuego, at the southern point of the American continent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room, until, having got past the two tall candles, he saw standing to receive him by the table between them and the fire, a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travellinghat by its ribbon in her hand.
-- Miss Pross's friendship being of the thoroughly practical kind, she had ravaged Soho and the adjacent prov-inces, in search of impoverished French, who, tempted by shillings and halfcrowns, would impart culinary mysteries to her.
-- They were all by that time choking the Hall of Ex-amination where this old man, ugly and wicked, was, and overflowing into the adjacent open space and streets.
-- Then, they ele-vated into the vacant chair a young woman from the crowd to be carried as the Goddess of Liberty, and then swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets, and along the river's bank, and over the bridge, the Carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away.
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：
-- Perhaps no district throughout the wide extent of the intermediate frontiers can furnish a livelier picture of the cruelty and fierceness of the savage warfare of those periods than the country which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes.
-- 'This is well,' continued Heyward; 'and Le Renard will have strength and sight to find the path in the morning"; he paused, for sounds like the snapping of a dried stick, and the rustling of leaves, rose from the adjacent bushes, but recollecting himself instantly, he continued, 'we must be moving before the sun is seen, or Montcalm may lie in our path, and shut us out from the fortress.'
-- Immovable as that rock, of which each appeared to form a part, they lay, with their eyes roving, without intermission, along the dark margin of trees, that bounded the adjacent shores of the narrow stream.
-- The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighboring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite ei-ther commiseration or comment.
-- In this dilemma, Uncas lighted on the furrow of the cannon ball, where it had cut the ground in three adjacent ant-hills.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Actually they were extremely small debauches; they rarely went beyond too much lager in the adjacent city of Zenith, or the smiles of a factory girl parading the sordid back avenues, but to Martin, with his pride in taut strength, his joy in a clear brain, they afterward seemed tragic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- The water was out, overmiles and miles of the flat country adjacent to Yarmouth; and everysheet and puddle lashed its banks, and had its stress of littlebreakers setting heavily towards us.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the further side of Norcombe Hill was a chalk-pit, from which chalk had been drawn for generations, and spread over adjacent farms.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as morning dawned I crept from my kennel, that I might view the adjacent cottage and discover if I could re-main in the habitation I had found.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveter-ate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
-- His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clouds were flying fast, and the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighbouring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weather-cocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves.
-- It was nothing to her that Plornish had a habit of leaning against it as he smoked his pipe after work, when his hat blotted out the pigeon-house and all the pigeons, when his back swallowed up the dwelling, when his hands in his pockets uprooted the blooming garden and laid waste the adjacent country.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, hat and coat and overshoes were one by one removed, and hung up in a little space in an adjacent corner; when, arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Assisting Oliver to rise, the young gentleman took him to an adjacent chandler's shop, where he purchased a sufficiency of ready-dressed ham and a half-quartern loaf, or, as he himself expressed it, 'a fourpenny bran!'
-- Master Bates, apparently much delighted with his commission, took the cleft stick: and led Oliver into an adjacent kitchen, where there were two or three of the beds on which he had slept before; and here, with many uncontrollable bursts of laughter, he produced the identical old suit of clothes which Oliver had so much congratulated himself upon leaving off at Mr. Brownlow's; and the accidental display of which, to Fagin, by the Jew who purchased them, had been the very first clue received, of his whereabout.
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