distance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 距离， 间隔， 远方， 路程，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe I can remember these two at a little distance apart,dwarfed to my sight by stooping down or kneeling on the floor,and I going unsteadily from the one to the other.
-- It seems to me, at this distance of time, as if it were the next daywhen Peggotty broached the striking and adventurous propositionI am about to mention; but it was probably about two monthsafterwards.
-- It seems to me, at this distance of time, as if my unfortunate studiesgenerally took this course.
-- The way inwhich I listened to all the incidents of the house that madethemselves audible to me; the ringing of bells, the opening and 62shutting of doors, the murmuring of voices, the footsteps on thestairs; to any laughing, whistling, or singing, outside, whichseemed more dismal than anything else to me in my solitude anddisgrace- the uncertain pace of the hours, especially at night, whenI would wake thinking it was morning, and find that the familywere not yet gone to bed, and that all the length of night had yet tocome- the depressed dreams and nightmares I had- the return ofday, noon, afternoon, evening, when the boys played in thechurchyard, and I watched them from a distance within the room,being ashamed to show myself at the window lest they shouldknow I was a prisoner- the strange sensation of never hearingmyself speak- the fleeting intervals of something like cheerfulness,which came with eating and drinking, and went away with it- thesetting in of rain one evening, with a fresh smell, and its comingdown faster and faster between me and the church, until it andgathering night seemed to quench me in gloom, and fear, andremorseall this appears to have gone round and round for yearsinstead of days, it is so vividly and strongly stamped on myremembrance.
-- I was so ashamedto allude to a commonplace thing like my box, to a scholar and amaster at Salem House, that we had gone some little distance fromthe yard before I had the hardihood to mention it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there was such comfort in the very easy distance of Randalls from Hartfield, so conve-nient for even solitary female walking, and in Mr. Weston's disposition and circumstances, which would make the ap-proaching season no hindrance to their spending half the evenings in the week together.
-- He paused and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, 'If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of an hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or incon-venience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself.'
-- A young woman, if she fall into bad hands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being un-der such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.'
-- The very thing that we have always been rather afraid of; for we should not have liked to have her at such a distance from us, for months together not able to come if any thing was to happen.
-- With mixed feelings, she seated herself at a little distance from the numbers round the instrument, to listen.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- These two seemed to keep at a distance from the fire, that the horse might not become restive.
-- Henery appeared in a drab kerseymere great-coat, buttoned over his smock-frock, the white skirts of the latter being visible to the distance of about a foot below the coat-tails, which, when you got used to the style of dress, looked natural enough, and even ornamental it certainly was comfortable.
-- But I mid see a little distance into things!To be long-headed enough for a baily's place is a poor mere trifle yet a trifle more than nothing.
-- She made no reply, and, reaching a distance of twenty or thirty yards, turned about, and ran indoors.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but ap-parently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.
-- We possessed a house 31in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
-- It was completely dark when I arrived in the environs of Geneva; the gates of the town were already shut; and I was obliged to pass the night at Secheron, a village at the distance of half a league from the city.
-- From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.
-- The son confirmed his father's account, but when Daniel Nugent was called he swore positively that just before the fall of his companion, he saw a boat, with a single man in it, at a short distance from the shore; and as far as he could judge by the light of a few stars, it was the same boat in which I had just landed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came up the hill at a gallop on his thick-barreled, long-legged hunter, appearing in the distance like a boy on atoo large horse.
-- The uncultivated fields, studded with tiny pines and underbrush, that stretched their rolling red-clay surface away into the distance on four sides belonged to Gerald O'Hara were all his because he had anunbefuddled Irish head and the courage to stake everything on a hand of cards.
-- At a distance great enough to keep the smoke away from the guestswere the long pits where the meats cooked and the huge iron wash-pots from which the succulent odors of barbecuesauce and Brunswick stew floated.
-- Standing somelittle distance away from the barbecue tables, he was at the peak of an argument with John Wilkes.
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