yard是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 院, 场地, 码，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.
-- It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
-- 'I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
-- Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Quick to see what happened!If a girl, doll or no doll, swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass.
-- This dialogue had taken place at Mr. Lorry's usual desk, with Monseigneur swarming within a yard or two of it, boastful of what he would do to avenge himself on the rascal-people before long.
-- Checking the postmaster, who was for turning his horse's head to the yard (the drunken patriot sat composedly in his saddle looking on, with the line round his wrist), Darnay said, as soon as he could make his voice heard: 'Friends, you deceive yourselves, or you are deceived.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She ob-served this, and hastened to get back; but before she could do so, the boat was more than a yard from the land, and was gliding quickly onward.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Laska, who had not yet fully digested her delight at his return, and had run out into the yard to bark, came back wagging her tail, and crept up to him, bringing in the scent of fresh air, put her head under his hand, and whined plaintively, asking to be stroked.
-- The further he rode, the happier he became, and plans for the land rose to his mind each better than the last; to plant all his fields with hedges along the southern borders, so that the snow should not lie under them; to divide them up into six fields of arable and three of pasture and hay; to build a cattle yard at the further end of the estate, and to dig a pond and to construct movable pens for the cattle as a means of manuring the land.
-- They went into the little yard in front of the shed.
-- In the middle of the old man's account of his acquaintance with Sviazhsky, the gates creaked again, and laborers came into the yard from the fields, with wooden ploughs and harrows.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During Clean-up Week, Pickerbaugh spread abroad a new lyric of his own composition: Germs come by stealth And ruin health, So listen, pard, Just drop a card To some man who'll clean up your yard And that will hit the old germs hard.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went in from the yard and up to the fourth storey.
-- Many windows looking into that huge quadrangular yard were open at that moment, but he did not raise his head he had not the strength to.
-- And so it was; there was a good-sized box under the bed, at least a yard in length, with an arched lid covered with red leather and studded with steel nails.
-- 'Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain stand-ing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!Only to live, to live and live!Life, whatever it may be!芒聙娄 How true it is!Good God, how true!Man is a vile creature!芒聙娄 And vile is he who calls him vile for that,' he added a moment later.
-- There'll be the square yard of space ha!But what an end!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I am in the garden at the back, beyondthe yard where the empty pigeon-house and dog-kennel are- avery preserve of butterflies, as I remember it, with a high fence,and a gate and padlock; where the fruit clusters on the trees, riperand richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, andwhere my mother gathers some in a basket, while I stand by,bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unmoved.
-- We were sitting as before, one evening (when my mother was outas before), in company with the stocking and the yard measure,and the bit of wax, and the box with Saint Paul's on the lid, and thecrocodile book, when Peggotty, after looking at me several times,and opening her mouth as if she were going to speak, withoutdoing it- which I thought was merely gaping, or I should havebeen rather alarmed- said coaxingly'Master Davy, how should youlike to go along with me and spend a fortnight at my brother's atYarmouth?
-- I was thinking this,and wondering what would ultimately become of my box, whichMr. Barkis had put down on the yard-pavement by the pole (hehaving driven up the yard to turn his cart), and also what wouldultimately become of me, when a lady looked out of a bow-window where some fowls and joints of meat were hanging up,and said'Is that the little gentleman from Blunderstone?'
-- 68upon which a waiter came running out of a kitchen on the oppositeside of the yard to show it, and seemed a good deal surprisedwhen he was only to show it to me.
-- The blowing of the coach-horn in the yard was aseasonable diversion, which made me get up and hesitatinglyinquire in the mingled pride and diffidence of having a purse(which I took out of my pocket), if there were anything to pay.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pointed to about a yard in front of him.
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