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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This worthy animal may allow itself to be caught in the seas of Europe (for my particular benefit), and I will not bring back less than half a yard of his ivory halberd to the Museum of Natural History."
-- There, a mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves.
-- During their games, their bounds, while rivalling each other in beauty, brightness, and velocity, I distinguished the green labre; the banded mullet, marked by a double line of black; the round-tailed goby, of a white colour, with violet spots on the back; the Japanese scombrus, a beautiful mackerel of these seas, with a blue body and silvery head; the brilliant azurors, whose name alone defies description; some banded spares, with variegated fins of blue and yellow; the woodcocks of the seas, some specimens of which attain a yard in length; Japanese salamanders, spider lampreys, serpents six feet long, with eyes small and lively, and a huge mouth bristling with teeth; with many other species.
-- "The tides are not strong in the Pacific: you are right there, Professor; but in Torres Straits one finds still a difference of a yard and a half between the level of high and low seas.
-- At a sign from him the anchor was dropped, but the chain scarcely ran, for it was little more than a yard deep, and this spot was one of the highest points of the bank of pintadines.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had left the garden now, and were crossing the yard on their way to the gate.
-- On the first landing, which was as small as the neces-sary turn of the stairs allowed, there was a niche in the column, about half a yard wide, and in this niche the prince felt convinced that a man stood concealed.
-- 'When I entered the yard I thought I saw a man going along on the far side of it; but it was so dark I could not make out his figure.
-- The latter was striding along a yard or so ahead, looking straight in front of him, and mechanically making way for anyone he met.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the Surrey side of the river was a small rat-infested dreary yard called 'Quilp's Wharf,' in which were a little wooden counting-house burrowing all awry in the dust as if it had fallen from the clouds and ploughed into the ground; a few fragments of rusty anchors; several large iron rings; some piles of rotten wood; and two or three heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered.
-- In a small dull yard below his window, there was a tree green and flourishing enough, for such a place and as the air stirred among its leaves, it threw a rippling shadow on the white wall.
-- Instead of speaking, however, she sat looking at the child for a long time in silence, and then getting up, brought out from a corner a large roll of canvas about a yard in width, which she laid upon the floor and spread open with her foot until it nearly reached from one end of the caravan to the other.
-- Being roused in the morning at the appointed time, and roused with difficulty, after his late fatigues, Quilp instructed Tom Scott to make a fire in the yard of sundry pieces of old timber, and to prepare some coffee for breakfast; for the better furnishing of which repast he entrusted him with certain small moneys, to be expended in the purchase of hot rolls, butter, sugar, Yarmouth bloaters, and other articles of housekeeping; so that in a few minutes a savoury meal was smoking on the board.
-- If you dare to come here again unless you're sent for, I'll keep watch-dogs in the yard that'll growl and bite I'll have man-traps, cunningly altered and improved for catching women I'll have spring guns, that shall explode when you tread upon the wires, and blow you into little pieces.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Young Archie Harker distinguished himself by going up the yard and trying to peep under the window-blinds.
-- He lit it clumsily, and folding his arms began to smoke in a languid attitude, an attitude which his occasional glances up the yard altogether belied.
-- and he ran obliquely across the oblong towards the yard gates, and vanished.
-- "There's the yard door and the private door.
-- The yard door " He rushed out of the bar.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the door behind me the door inward towards the yard of the enclosure opened.
-- I heard a step outside, and incontinently flung open the door and found Mont-gomery within a yard of it.
-- We locked ourselves in, and then took Moreau's mangled body into the yard and laid it upon a pile of brushwood.
-- The shadow of the wall lay, a yard wide and of inky blackness, at my feet.
-- I went out into the yard and listened.
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