pitch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 球场; 声音的高低度; 程度; 沥青 vt. /vi. 投掷; 搭帐, 扎营; 坠落，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result of that conference was, that Gabelle again withdrew himself to his housetop behind his stack of chimneys; this time re-solved, if his door were broken in (he was a small Southern 330 A tale of two citiesman of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head fore-most over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The overstrained condition which had tormented her before did not only come back, but was intensified, and reached such a pitch that she was afraid every minute that something would snap within her from the excessive tension.
-- "Yes, everything's brought to such a pitch of perfection nowadays," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, with a moist and blissful yawn.
-- And he was told, "Don't trouble, your honor, sure, the womenfolks will pitch it quick enough."
-- But when Levin hinted at the future advantages, Ivan's face expressed alarm and regret that he could not hear all he had to say, and he made haste to find himself some task that would admit of no delay: he either snatched up the fork to pitch the hay out of the pens, or ran to get water or to clear out the dung.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day he was leaning on the railing of the engine-room, and was observing the engine, when a sudden pitch of the steamer threw the screw out of the water.
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：
-- The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with himself to escape from his wretched-ness.
-- I admit it openly for one may as well 630 Crime and Punishmentmake a clean breast of it I was the first to pitch on you.
-- And imagine what I did then!To what a pitch of stupidity a man can be brought by frenzy!Never undertake anything in a frenzy, Rodion Romanovitch.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston, his son, Emma, and Harriet, only remained; and the young man's spirits now rose to a pitch almost unpleasant.
-- When it came to such a pitch as this, she was not able to refrain from a start, or a heavy sigh, or even from walk-ing about the room for a few seconds and the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel had reached a pitch of existence he never could have anticipated a short time before.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We left him bestirring himself to feed the fowls, and we sat down to our punch in the arbor; where Wemmick told me, as he smoked a pipe, that it had taken him a good many years to bring the property up to its present pitch of perfection.
-- By some invisible agency, my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.
-- "Choose your bridge, Mr. Pip," returned Wemmick, "and take a walk upon your bridge, and pitch your money into the Thames over the centre arch of your bridge, and you know the end of it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pour-ing over her.
-- But, try what she would, she could not get the pitch off and it stuck to her as long as she lived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic.'
-- There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind junior, as the injured men of Coketown threatened to pitch their property into the Atlantic.
-- So when her nerves were strung up to the pitch of again consuming sweetbreads in solitude, he said to her at the dinner-table, on the day before her departure, 'I tell you what, ma'am; you shall come down here of a Saturday, while the fine weather lasts, and stay till Monday.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is what I heard, and I began to be roused to the pitch of enthusiasm indicated by those words.
-- I had already started in the direction of the somber and gloomy gallery when the Professor stopped me; he, the man so rash and hasty, he, the man so easily roused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, checked me, and asked me to be patient and show more calm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was inhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyramids; but there was a family sentimental feeling prevalent in the Yard, that it had a character.
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