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：
-- He kept a quiet distance of his own, and seemed absolutely unwilling to speak.
-- But a fair distance out!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the life, and this the history, of Little Dorrit; now going home upon a dull September evening, observed at a distance by Arthur Clennam.
-- 'Understand me!I don't say,' he replied in his steady, planning way, and looking into the distance before him as if his grey eye were measuring it, 'that it's recompense for a man's toil and hope; but it's a certain sort of relief to know that I might have counted on this.'
-- He trudged a little further; and looking into the distance before him, stopped again.
-- He stood at a little distance from them.
-- This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success that the very name of Englishman yet struck cold to the stomachs of foreigners who had the distinguished honour of remembering him at a distance of a quarter of a century.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paused discreetly at a distance when Brooke disappeared, but he could both see and hear, and be-ing a bachelor, enjoyed the prospect mightily.
-- And Jo pointed from the lively lads in the distance to her father, leaning on the Professor's arm, as they walked to and fro in the sun-shine, deep in one of the conversations which both enjoyed so much, and then to her mother, sitting enthroned among her daughters, with their children in her lap and at her feet, as if all found help and happiness in the face which never could grow old to them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn.
-- He is seldom seen; at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
-- Affrighted, we all sprang into the sea as the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon us within a distance of not much more than its length.
-- Meantime his ship was still increasing the distance between.
-- The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing down upon the scene.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had diminished the distance between himself and London by full four miles more, before he recollected how much he must undergo ere he could hope to reach his place of destination.
-- Meanwhile, Oliver Twist, little dreaming that he was within so very short a distance of the merry old gentleman, was on his way to the book-stall.
-- They held their course at this rate, until they had passed Hyde Park corner, and were on their way to Kensington: when Sikes relaxed his pace, until an empty cart which was at some little distance behind, came up.
-- They were at no great distance off; and, as they walked pretty briskly, they soon arrived at Chertsey.
-- It was a round table; and as Mrs. Corney and Mr. Bumble had been sitting opposite each other, with no great space between them, and fronting the fire, it will be seen that Mr. Bumble, in receding from the fire, and still keeping at the table, increased the distance between himself and Mrs. Corney; which proceeding, some prudent readers will doubtless be disposed to admire, and to consider an act of great heroism on Mr. Bumble's part: he being in some sort tempted by time, place, and opportunity, to give utterance to certain soft nothings, which however well they may become the lips of the light and thoughtless, do seem immeasurably beneath the dignity of judges of the land, members of parliament, ministers of state, lord mayors, and other great public functionaries, but more particularly beneath the stateliness and gravity of a beadle: who (as is well known) should be the sternest and most inflexible among them all.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Mery-ton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.
-- The distance is nothing when one has a motive; only three miles.
-- She was at least free from the offense of Mr. Darcy's further notice; though often standing within a very short distance of her, quite disengaged, he never came near enough to speak.
-- Elizabeth, feeling it incumbent on her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation, now put herself forward to confirm his account, by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters by the earnest-ness of her congratulations to Sir William, in which she was readily joined by Jane, and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match, the excellent character of Mr. Collins, and the convenient distance of Hunsford from London.
-- 'It must be very agreeable for her to be settled within so easy a distance of her own family and friends.'
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