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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She listened hard and suddenly shewondered if it were only her imagination or if the sound of cannon in the distance had died away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at a distance towards the east, but it was long and loud.
-- Presently we saw other torches kindled at some distance behind us, and others on the marshes on the opposite bank of the river.
-- Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
-- The space interposed between myself and them partook of that expansion, and our marshes were any distance off.
-- O the sense of distance and disparity that came upon me, and the inaccessibility that came about her!
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that Clever Elsie should be really smart.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor's horse, they alighted, and came near his person, which I am now going to describe.
-- It is enclosed by a wall of two feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings.
-- I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were sometimes not above a foot distant, so that I could hardly squeeze my body betwixt them.
-- When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the floor.
-- Some natural ne-cessities required me to get down; I durst not presume to call; and if I had, it would have been in vain, with such a voice as mine, at so great a distance from the room where I lay to the kitchen where the family kept.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gave him an affectionate good-night, and went out with him to the door, whence the fires of Coketown could be seen, making the distance lurid.
-- A window looked towards Coketown; and when she sat down near her father's table, she saw the high chimneys and the long tracts of smoke looming in the heavy distance gloomily.
-- Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun's rays.
-- A blur of soot and smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, now murkily creeping along the earth, as the wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but masses of darkness: Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself, though not a brick of it could be seen.
-- In the distance one way, Coketown showed as a black mist; in another distance hills began to rise; in a third, there was a faint change in the light of the horizon where it shone upon the far-off sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Sund, or Sound as we call it, could be discovered beyond the point of Elsinore, crowded with white sails, which, at that distance looked like the wings of seagulls; while to the east could be made out the far-off coast of Sweden.
-- An hour later, the capital of Denmark seemed to sink into the waves, and we were at no great distance from the coast of Elsinore.
-- Hans, the guide, told us the distance was about twenty-two miles, a journey which my uncle supposed would take about two days.
-- Our journey was now in a westerly direction; we had, in fact, swept round the great bay of Faxa, and the twin white summits of Sneffels rose to the clouds at a distance of less than five miles.
-- The turnings and windings, the no-thoroughfares, the marches and marches, turned that insignificant distance into at least three leagues.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- At length she saw in the distance a yellow light.
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