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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary Grant and Helena, in a corner of the hut, lay down on a mat.
-- Alone with my sailors, in this corner of the globe, I did not despair.
-- At last, one day being fairly driven in a corner by the intractable Major, he ended by confiding to him, under the seal of secrecy, a certain peculiarity which would facilitate his apprehension should the police ever be on his track.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Interesting, though elementary,' said he as he returned to his favourite corner of the settee.
-- There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a pro-saic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and mas-terful men.
-- MY DEAR HOLMES, My previous letters and tele-grams have kept you pretty well up to date as to all that has occurred in this most God-forsaken corner of the world.
-- I crept down the passage as noiselessly as I could and peeped round the corner of the door.
-- Looking over, I saw the naturalist pause at the door of an out-house in the corner of the orchard.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania stood at his table in the far corner of the room, turning over papers.
-- He could not settle himself to his papers again, for agi-tation and excitement, but began walking up and down the room from corner to corner.
-- Hardly, however, had the old lady begun about her ' highly gratified feelings,' and so on, when Nastasia left her, and flounced into a chair by Gania's side in the corner by the window, and cried: 'Where's your study?
-- It struck me to ask the daughter of the house to play something on the piano; so I passed through the corner room to join the ladies.
-- She was sitting in a corner all alone, leaning her face on her hand.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when fish fly scared before a huge dolphin, and fill every nook and corner of some fair haven for he is sure to eat all he can catch even so did the Trojans cow-er under the banks of the mighty river, and when Achilles' arms grew weary with killing them, he drew twelve youths alive out of the water, to sacrifice in revenge for Patroclus son of Menoetius.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She hung his muffler on a corner of the horse.
-- He sat in the corner with his back to the window- blind and spoke now, having eaten and drunk and being comfortably warmed through, with less aggressive brevity than before.
-- At Gleeson's corner he saw Hall, who had recently married the stranger's hostess at the "Coach and Horses," and who now drove the Iping conveyance, when occasional people required it, to Sidderbridge Junction, coming towards him on his return from that place.
-- When she took in his tea she saw broken glass in the corner of the room under the concave mirror, and a golden stain that had been carelessly wiped.
-- In the corner by the fireplace lay the fragments of half a dozen smashed bottles, and a pungent twang of chlorine tainted the air.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The puma lay crouched together, watching us with shining eyes, a black heap in the corner of its cage.
-- The main entrance to the enclosure we passed; it was a heavy wooden gate, framed in iron and locked, with the cargo of the launch piled outside it, and at the corner we came to a small doorway I had not previ-ously observed.
-- A hammock was slung across the darker corner of the room, and a small unglazed window defended by an iron bar looked out towards the sea.
-- I stepped out of the door into the slumberous heat of the late afternoon, and walking past the main entrance locked again, I noticed turned the corner of the wall The crying sounded even louder out of doors.
-- I hesitated a moment, then turned and fled, round the corner of the house.
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