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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, they had only to lower the upper yard to bring the sail to its smallest size.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came here straight from the Yard to ask you to your face what you had against me.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the little yard two paces be-yond her, the man was washing himself, utterly unaware.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, too, among unusual bottle-racks and pale slants of light from the yard above, was the strong room stored with old ledgers, which had as musty and corrupt a smell as if they were regularly balanced, in the dead small hours, by a nightly resurrection of old book-keepers.
-- Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
-- But he got pretty well over it in a month or two; and in the meantime the children played about the yard as regularly as ever, but in black.
-- With a still surviving attachment to the one miserable yard and block of houses as her birthplace and home, she passed to and fro in it shrinkingly now, with a womanly consciousness that she was pointed out to every one.
-- Heartily glad to see the morning, though little rested by the night, he turned out as soon as he could distinguish objects about him, and paced the yard for two heavy hours before the gate was opened.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were placed in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with the victor's compliments to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Noah, with well-affected dismay: and in tones so loud and agitated, that they not only caught the ear of Mr. Bumble himself, who happened to be hard by, but alarmed him so much that he rushed into the yard without his cocked hat,--which is a very curious and remarkable circumstance: as showing that even a beadle, acted upon a sudden and powerful impulse, may be afflicted with a momentary visitation of loss of self-possession, and forgetfulness of personal dignity.
-- It was a small paved yard into which they turned; and here they encountered a stout man with a bunch of whiskers on his face, and a bunch of keys in his hand.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a yard long; but as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I had cut it pretty short, except what grew on my upper lip, which I had trimmed into a large pair of Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did; of these moustachios, or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have passed for frightful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world.
-- His preference for Fitzgerald and Moy's Adams Street place was another yard off the same cloth.
-- Out in the small back yard was George, Jr., frolicking with a young dog he had recently purchased, and in the parlour Jessica was playing at the piano, the sounds of a merry waltz filling every nook and corner of the comfortable home.
-- He looked out into the yard and waited.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lighting.
-- When they got there they swarmed into the grave- yard and washed over it like an overflow.
-- He warn't a boy to meeky along up that yard like a sheep; no, he come ca'm and im-portant, like the ram.
-- We went through the yard so as to see what the hounds would do.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the call, two wooden officers appeared, long and thin as a yard of rope, with queer hats on their heads and swords in their hands.
-- When he reached the yard in front of the house, he flung him to the ground, put a foot on his neck, and said to him roughly: "It is late now and it's time for bed.
-- And, in fact, he was down in the yard in a twinkling and running toward the chicken coop.
-- "Do you think it possible for a Marionette, a yard high, to have the strength to carry me on his shoulders and swim?"
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