separate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (from) 分离的， 分开的v. (from) 分离， 分开，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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wherever she lives,' said Mrs Clennam, speaking in one unmodulated hard voice, and separating her words as distinctly as if she were reading them off from separate bits of metal that she took up one by one, 'she has made a secret of it, and she shall always keep her secret from me.'
-- Mr Pancks looked over his note-book, which was now getting full, studiously; and picked out little extracts, which he wrote on separate slips of paper on the table; Mr Rugg, in the meanwhile, looking at him with close attention, and Young John losing his uncollected eye in mists of meditation.
-- 'You remember my saying that our thoughts had never been able to separate those twin sisters, and that, in our fancy, whatever Pet was, the other was?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Our drawing class breaks up next week, and before the girls separate for the summer, I want to ask them out here for a day.
-- Her family is separate from the rest, and no one knows me there.
-- A very natural and forgivable mistake, Meg, but one that had better be remedied before you take to dif-ferent ways, for children should draw you nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and John had nothing to do but support them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?
-- They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own.
-- On the separate subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing authority.
-- In his System of Nature, A.D. 1776, Linn脙娄us declares, "I hereby separate the whales from the fish."
-- Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship's hull, called the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet, we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost matter of impossibility to separate the two.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And what arts did he use to separate them?'
-- That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Bingley and Jane she had never doubted; but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrange-ment of them.
-- With assumed tranquillity he then replied: 'I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success.
-- He had certainly formed such a plan, and without meaning that it should effect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it might add some-thing to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend.
-- In the dining-room they were soon joined by Mary and Kitty, who had been too busily engaged in their separate apartments to make their appearance before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such impression did this make upon me, that after the storm was over I laid aside all my works, my building and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes, to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in the hope that, whatever might come, it might not all take fire at once; and to keep it so apart that it should not be possible to make one part fire another.
-- But when I had wrought out some boards as above, I made large shelves, of the breadth of a foot and a half, one over an-other all along one side of my cave, to lay all my tools, nails and ironwork on; and, in a word, to separate everything at large into their places, that I might come easily at them.
-- As soon as it was over, I resolved to separate my stock of powder into as many little parcels as possible, that it might not be in danger.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem and love."
-- To separate Edward and Elinor was as far from being her object as ever; and she wished to show Mrs. John Dashwood, by this pointed invitation to her brother, how totally she disregarded her disapprobation of the match.
-- If dancing formed the amusement of the night, they were partners for half the time; and when obliged to separate for a couple of dances, were careful to stand together and scarcely spoke a word to any body else.
-- But it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded, though Lucy was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred; for the weather was not often fine enough to allow of their joining in a walk, where they might most easily separate themselves from the others; and though they met at least every other evening either at the park or cottage, and chiefly at the former, they could not be supposed to meet for the sake of conversation.
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