within是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…里面， 在…以内ad. 在内，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：
-- With the exception of Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, and Mr. Sta-pleton, the naturalist, there are no other men of education within many miles.
-- 'Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles's nervous system was strained to the breaking point.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Within a fortnight Totski himself arrived, and from that time he appeared to have taken a great fancy to this part of the world and came down each summer, staying two and three months at a time.
-- Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.
-- She immediately overwhelmed the general once more with questions, and within five min-utes that gentleman was as happy as a king, and holding forth at the top of his voice, amid the laughter of almost all who heard him.
-- A year since it had so happened that his only two sons had both died within the same month.
-- His heart froze within him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him.
-- The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger.
-- As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.
-- Will nothing do for you but you must within their walls and eat Priam raw, with his sons and all the other Trojans to boot?
-- Then Diomed prayed, saying, 'Hear me, daughter of aegis-bear-ing Jove, unweariable, if ever you loved my father well and stood by him in the thick of a fight, do the like now by me; grant me to come within a spear's throw of that man and kill him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT The eighth chapter is exceedingly brief, and relates that Gibbons, the amateur naturalist of the district, while lying out on the spacious open downs without a soul within a couple of miles of him, as he thought, and almost dozing, heard close to him the sound as of a man coughing, sneezing, and then swearing savagely to himself; and looking, beheld nothing.
-- Mr. Huxter heard voices from within the room and from the bar apprising the man of his error.
-- The sounds within indistinct and perplexing.
-- "I was surprised to find, now that my prize was within my grasp, how inconclusive its attainment seemed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.
-- Two thatched roofs peeped from within this enclosure.
-- Then the poor brute within gave vent to a series of short, sharp cries.
-- I heard a step outside, and incontinently flung open the door and found Mont-gomery within a yard of it.
-- Superficially the contagion of these brutes was upon me, but deep down within me the laughter and disgust struggled together.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I I have to kill for two, these days.'
-- Besides, the monkeys lived there as much as they could be said to live anywhere, and no self-respecting animal would come within eyeshot of it except in times of drought, when the half-ruined tanks and reservoirs held a little water.
-- The deer and the wild pig grubbed up their crops, and now and again the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the village gates.
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