corner是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 角落， 拐角，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just imagine it!There was a splendid carriage waiting at the corner of the Place de l'Estrapade, and _she_ got into it."
-- said the artist, "in the little dark corner where they put naughty boys."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
-- She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, you liar, I saw you with my own eyes sidleround the corner of the porch and squat in the cape jessamine bush by the wall.
-- Jack set his fly-brush in the corner and removed the dishes, whileMammy fumbled in the sideboard drawer for Ellen's worn prayer book.
-- Secession, war these words long since had become acutely boring to Scarlett from much repetition, but now shehated the sound of them, for they meant that the men would stand there for hours haranguing one another and shewould have no chance to corner Ashley.
-- All the worthy Hindu matrons wouldtalk about her for not behaving as a well-bred lady should precisely as those worthy matrons in the corner would talkabout you, should you appear tonight in a red dress and lead a reel.
-- He laughed too, and so loudly that several of the chaperons in the corner looked their way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Tell me directly what you've been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I'd have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
-- said I, when I had done my stirring, and was taking a final warm in the chimney corner before being sent up to bed; "was that great guns, Joe?"
-- The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
-- One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe.
-- On the previous night, I had been sent straight to bed in an attic with a sloping roof, which was so low in the corner where the bedstead was, that I calculated the tiles as being within a foot of my eyebrows.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How they did rejoice and embrace each other, and dance about and kiss each other!And as they had no longer any need to fear her, they went into the witch's house, and in every corner there stood chests full of pearls and jewels.
-- Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don't for-get to say, 'Good morning', and don't peep into every corner before you do it.'
-- She sat down in one corner of the room, and began to be-wail her hard fate; when on a sudden the door opened, and a droll-looking little man hobbled in, and said, 'Good mor-row to you, my good lass; what are you weeping for?'
-- His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it.
-- The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them: but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.
-- I retreated to the farther corner of my room; or box; but the monkey looking in at every side, put me in such a fright, that I wanted pres-ence of mind to conceal myself under the bed, as I might easily have done.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, the boys and girls sat on the face of the inclined plane in two compact bodies, divided up the centre by a narrow interval; and Sissy, being at the corner of a row on the sunny side, came in for the beginning of a sunbeam, of which Bitzer, being at the corner of a row on the other side, a few rows in advance, caught the end.
-- Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized.
-- The question was unexpectedly and suddenly answered for her, by the colourless boy, Bitzer, who came round the corner with such blind speed and so little anticipating a stoppage on the pavement, that he brought himself up against Mr. Gradgrind's waistcoat and rebounded into the road.
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