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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One Murphy, a gipsy horse-dealer, was on the moor at no great distance at the time, but he appears by his own confession to have been the worse for drink.
-- But I did some little distance off, but fresh and clear.'
-- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the dis-tance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
-- Far away in the black distance there still glowed that one tiny point of yellow light.
-- There is nothing so decep-tive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the ho-rizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Schneider was obliged to prom-ise that I should not meet them and talk to them; but we conversed from a distance by signs, and they used to write me sweet little notes.
-- Oth-ers, however, took the hint and sat down, as far as they could from the table, however; feeling braver in proportion to their distance from Nastasia.
-- The crowd and the music cheered Mrs. Epanchin a little, and amused the girls; they bowed and shook hands with some of their friends and nodded at a distance to others; they examined the ladies' dresses, noticed comicalities and eccentricities among the people, and laughed and talked among them-selves.
-- Both sat down, at a little distance from one anoth-er Aglaya on the sofa, in the corner of the room, Nastasia by the window.
-- Her friends about her were stupefied with amazement; the crowd parted as she rushed through it, and suddenly, at a distance of five or six yards from the carriage, appeared Rogojin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His squire was in charge of it at some distance and he was fighting on foot among the foremost until he lost his life.
-- He was never clear of the foe, but was always in the thick of the fight; his spear was never idle; he poised and aimed it in every direction, so eager was he to hit someone from a distance or to fight him hand to hand.
-- Follow me; there must be no fighting the Argives from a distance now, but we must do so in close combat till either we kill them or they take the high wall of Ilius and slay her people.'
-- They did not fight at a distance with bows and javelins, but with one mind hacked at one another in close combat with their mighty swords and spears pointed at both ends; they fought moreover with keen battle-axes and with hatchets.
-- On hearing this, Patroclus withdrew to some distance and avoided the anger of Apollo.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The distance I had come, or the intervening masses of thicket, deadened any sound that might be com-ing from the enclosure.
-- Then, stopping to look back once or twice, he slunk off among the bushes to the right of me, and I heard the swish of the fronds grow faint in the distance and die away.
-- Now we are going up the beach until you are satis-fied the distance is safe.
-- Montgom-ery cracked his whip at them, and forthwith they all turned and fled helter-skelter into the trees; and when Montgomery and Moreau were at a distance I judged sufficient, I waded ashore, and picked up and examined the revolvers.
-- As it was, I went to such a distance that the rabbit's remains were hidden.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come off in patches when they were skinned.
-- Nagaina was coiled up on the matting by Teddy's chair, within easy striking distance of Teddy's bare leg, and she was swaying to and fro, singing a song of triumph.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the fron-tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
-- The rude path, which originally formed their line of com-munication, had been widened for the passage of wagons; so that the distance which had been traveled by the son of the forest in two hours, might easily be effected by a de-tachment of troops, with their necessary baggage, between the rising and setting of a summer sun.
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