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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when a goat-herd from some high post watches a storm drive over the deep before the west wind black as pitch is the offing and a mighty whirlwind draws towards him, so that he is afraid and drives his flock into a cave even thus did the ranks of stalwart youths move in a dark mass to battle under the Ajaxes, horrid with shield and spear.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The river had worn away the edge of the soft rock in such a man-ner as to render its first pitch less abrupt and perpendicular than is usual at waterfalls.
-- Then suddenly lifting his voice to a pitch of terrific energy, he concluded by demanding: 'Are the Hurons dogs to bear this?
-- Then, extending the little volume, and giving the pitch of the air anew with considerate attention, David recom-menced and finished his strains, with a fixedness of manner that it was not easy to interrupt.
-- But speak not a syllable; it is rare for a white voice to pitch itself properly in the woods, as we have seen by the example of that miserable devil, the singer.
-- The suddenness and the nature of the surprise had nearly proved too much for we will not say the philosophy but for the pitch and resolution of David.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man and another person were together in the back part, and there seemed to have been high words between them, for their voices which were raised to a very high pitch suddenly stopped on my entering, and the old man advancing hastily towards me, said in a tremulous tone that he was very glad I had come.
-- This was a wide, wide track for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile but its character was still the same.
-- 'Water for lawyers!Melted lead and brimstone, you mean, nice hot blistering pitch and tar that's the thing for them eh, Brass, eh?'
-- The single gentleman has been described as explaining their joint intentions, but it should have been written that they all spoke together; that if any one of them by chance held his peace for a moment, he stood gasping and panting for an opportunity to strike in again: in a word, that they had reached that pitch of impatience and anxiety where men can neither be persuaded nor reasoned with; and that it would have been as easy to turn the most impetuous wind that ever blew, as to prevail on them to reconsider their determination.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 638, of the Medical Department," began the secretary with resolution, raising the pitch of his voice, as if to dispel the drowsiness that seized upon every one present, "and in the presence of the assistant medical director, examined the following intestines: "1.
-- The road could not be distinguished in the field, and it was pitch dark in the woods.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their voices seemed to rise to a higher pitch of excitement, and their movements grew faster.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There," John would add, "you can't touch pitch and not be mucked, lad.
-- The pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I continued my work, but the temperature rose to such a pitch as to be intolerable.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "High!There are centuries and hundreds of centuries of development in a straight line, behind that carving; it is an awful pitch of culture, of a definite sort."
-- With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition."
-- It drove her father to a pitch of mad exasperation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The worthy woman bustled off, and I crouched nearer the fire; my head felt hot, and the rest of me chill: moreover, I was excited, almost to a pitch of foolishness, through my nerves and brain.
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