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：
-- At a respectful distance from this unusual show, were gathered divers groups of curious idlers; some admiring the blood and bone of the high-mettled military charger, and others gazing at the preparations, with the dull wonder of vulgar curiosity.
-- Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
-- Know you the distance to a post of the crown called William Henry?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the dead hush of mid-night, he could even hear the barking of the watchdog from the opposite shore of the Hudson; but it was so vague and faint as only to give an idea of his distance from this faith-ful companion of man.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.
-- The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel.
-- The nearest point of the beach he could reach was thus fully that distance off.
-- The distance between these two extremities, which made the bow of the bay, was about eight miles.
-- Lastly, beyond and above the plateau, in a northwesterly direction and at a distance of at least seven miles, glittered a white summit which reflected the sun's rays.
-- At the northern extremity of the bay the outline of the shore was continued to a great distance in a wider curve.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no reason, however, why I should refrain from seeing the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone, and as it was not improbable that if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity, I avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate, and thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were.
-- The young man reclined against a table at no great distance from his friend, in apparent indifference to everything that had passed; and I who felt the difficulty of any interference, notwithstanding that the old man had appealed to me, both by words and looks made the best feint I could of being occupied in examining some of the goods that were disposed for sale, and paying very little attention to a person before me.
-- This was prudent, for in point of fact, the dwarf, knowing his disposition, was lying in wait at a little distance from the sash armed with a large piece of wood, which, being rough and jagged and studded in many parts with broken nails, might possibly have hurt him.
-- Still, there was one late shop at no great distance which sent forth a ruddy glare upon the pavement even yet, and looked bright and companionable.
-- Mrs Nubbles ironed away in silence for a minute or two, and coming to the fireplace for another iron, glanced stealthily at Kit while she rubbed it on a board and dusted it with a duster, but said nothing until she had returned to her table again: when, holding the iron at an alarmingly short distance from her cheek, to test its temperature, and looking round with a smile, she observed:'I know what some people would say, Kit ''Nonsense,' interposed Kit with a perfect apprehension of what was to follow.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment he was occupied with the following enigmatical proposition: If the number of steps in the distance between the cabinet-door and the arm-chair will divide by three without a remainder, then the new regimen will cure him; but if it does not so divide, then it will not.
-- He was detained at the door for a few minutes by the jostling, animated crowd of jurors and lawyers, who were glad that the case was over, so that when he reached the corridor Maslova was some distance away.
-- The distance between the detention-house and the old prison was great, and Nekhludoff did not arrive there until toward evening.
-- The driver stopped at a turn some distance from the prison.
-- It was late and the distance to the prison was long, so Nekhludoff hired a trap.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles perhaps, in ten minutes.
-- The clear blue of the distance faded, and one star after another came out.
-- That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine.
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