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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I see neither a red nor a green light, all is pitch dark," replied Paganel, his eyes involuntarily beginning to close.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're right, clerk,' said the latter, 'you're right, tipsy spir-it you're right! Nastasia Philipovna,' he added, looking at her like some lunatic, harmless generally, but suddenly wound up to a pitch of audacity, 'here are eighteen thou-sand roubles, and and you shall have more .'
-- If she likes a person she will pitch into him, and chaff him.
-- It was a quiet, warm, clear night a real Petersburg night of early June; but in the dense avenue, where he was sitting, it was almost pitch dark.
-- Occasionally a violent fit of coughing stopped him, but his animation grew with the progress of the reading as did also the disagreeable im-pression which it made upon his audience, until it reached the highest pitch of excitement.
-- 'It appeared to me, at the first glance, that both the man and the woman were respectable people, but brought to that pitch of poverty where untidiness seems to get the better of every effort to cope with it, till at last they take a sort of bitter satisfaction in it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it's fine, I'm going to pitch my tent in Longmeadow, and row up the whole crew to lunch and croquet have a fire, make messes, gypsy fashion, and all sorts of larks.
-- Now then, young Brooke, pitch into a man of your own size, will you?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it?
-- it wasn't a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it?
-- Our captain has his birthmark; look yonder, boys, there's another in the sky lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.
-- He is thus completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth.
-- He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Unless you could pitch over a file and twenty yards of good stout rope, you might as well be walking fifty mile off, or not walking at all, for all the good it would do me.
-- 'I never,' said Mr. Bumble, 'see anything like the pitch it's got to.
-- We, being men, took a dark lantern that was standing on Brittle's hob, and groped our way downstairs in the pitch dark,--as it might be so.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the good counsels of my parents, my father's tears and my mother's entreaties, came now fresh into my mind; and my conscience, which was not yet come to the pitch of hardness to which it has since, reproached me with the contempt of advice, and the breach of my duty to God and my father.
-- On the flat of the green, just before this hollow place, I resolved to pitch my tent.
-- I was so astonished with the sight of these things, that I entertained no notions of any danger to myself from it for a long while: all my apprehensions were buried in the thoughts of such a pitch of inhuman, hellish brutality, and the horror of the degeneracy of human nature, which, though I had heard of it often, yet I never had so near a view of before; in short, I turned away my face from the horrid spectacle; my stomach grew sick, and I was just at the point of fainting, when nature discharged the disorder from my stomach; and having vomited with uncommon violence, I was a little relieved, but could not bear to stay in the place a moment; so I got up the hill again with all the speed I could, and walked on towards my own habitation.
-- My next thing was to contrive how to do it, and this, indeed, was very difficult to resolve on; but as I could pitch upon no probable means for it, so I resolved to put myself upon the watch, to see them when they came on shore, and leave the rest to the event; taking such measures as the opportunity should present, let what would be.
-- But among all my relations or acquaintances I could not yet pitch upon one to whom I durst commit the gross of my stock, that I might go away to the Brazils, and leave things safe behind me; and this greatly perplexed me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Two thousand a-year;" and then working himself up to a pitch of enthusiastic generosity, he added, "Elinor, I wish with all my heart it were TWICE as much, for your sake."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was dark as pitch there; but I said, in a kind of a coarse whisper, 'Jim !'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The night was pitch black.
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