approach是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 接近; 着手处理; n. 接近; 方法; 途径，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Precisely as a beast might approach the opened gate of his den and eye the freedom beyond, he passed those few moments in watching and peering, until the door was closed upon him.
-- His experience on the lock gave him such an acute perception of the enormous difficulty of 'tying up' money with any approach to tightness, and contrariwise of the remarkable ease with which it got loose, that through a series of years he regularly propounded this knotty point to every new insolvent agent and other professional gentleman who passed in and out.
-- 'Excuse my mentioning ''The Department is accessible to the Public,' Mr Barnacle was always checked a little by that word of impertinent signification, 'if the Public approaches it according to the official forms; if the Public does not approach it according to the official forms, the Public has itself to blame.'
-- Little Dorrit was almost as ignorant of the ways of theatres as of the ways of gold mines, and when she was directed to a furtive sort of door, with a curious up-all-night air about it, that appeared to be ashamed of itself and to be hiding in an alley, she hesitated to approach it; being further deterred by the sight of some half-dozen close-shaved gentlemen with their hats very strangely on, who were lounging about the door, looking not at all unlike Collegians.
-- I immediately,' addressing Little Dorrit, '(for I am the creature of impulse), took a bracelet from my arm, and begged your sister to let me clasp it on hers, in token of the delight I had in our being able to approach the subject so far on a common footing.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If 'the sausage' as the called it, stood on end, it was a sign that he might approach and repose, but if it lay flat across the sofa, woe to man, woman, or child who dared disturb it!That evening Jo forgot to barricade her corner, and had not been in her seat five minutes, before a massive form appeared beside her, and with both arms spread over the sofa back, both long legs stretched out be-fore him, Laurie exclaimed, with a sigh of satisfaction... 'Now, this is filling at the price.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By some fishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory of the advance of the great sperm whale.
-- After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a reinforcement to his crew.
-- And not only this, but to that ever-contracting, dropping circle ashore, who, for any reason, possessed the privilege of a less banned approach to him; to that timid circle the above hinted casualty remaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab invested itself with terrors, not entirely underived from the land of spirits and of wails.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So are the coffins,' replied the beadle: with precisely as near an approach to a laugh as a great official ought to indulge in.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth had scarcely time to disclaim all right to the compliment, before their approach was announced by the door-bell, and shortly afterwards the three gentlemen en-tered the room.
-- Elizabeth's collected behaviour, however, soon quieted his emotion; and as Miss Bingley, vexed and disappointed, dared not approach nearer to Wickham, Georgiana also re-covered in time, though not enough to be able to speak any more.
-- Her sister, however, assured her of her being perfectly well; and their conversation, which had been passing while Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were engaged with their children, was now put an end to by the approach of the whole party.
-- Her resolution was for a short time involuntarily kept by the approach of her sister, who joined her with a cheerful look, which showed her better satisfied with their visitors, than Elizabeth.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the approach of night I slept in a tree, for fear of wild creatures; but slept soundly, though it rained all night.
-- When this was done I stuck all the ground without my wall, for a great length every way, as full with stakes or sticks of the osier- like wood, which I found so apt to grow, as they could well stand; insomuch that I believe I might set in near twenty thousand of them, leaving a pretty large space be-tween them and my wall, that I might have room to see an enemy, and they might have no shelter from the young trees, if they attempted to approach my outer wall.
-- After these thoughts had for some time entertained me, I came to reflect seriously upon the real danger I had been in for so many years in this very island, and how I had walked about in the greatest security, and with all possible tran-quillity, even when perhaps nothing but the brow of a hill, a great tree, or the casual approach of night, had been be-tween me and the worst kind of destruction - viz.
-- These things, and the approach of night, called us off, or else, as Friday would have had us, we should certainly have taken the skin of this monstrous creature off, which was worth saving; but we had near three leagues to go, and our guide hastened us; so we left him, and went forward on our journey.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards this home, she began on the approach of January to turn her thoughts, and thither she one day abruptly, and very unexpectedly by them, asked the elder Misses Dashwood to accompany her.
-- She soon caught his eye, and he immediately bowed, but without attempting to speak to her, or to approach Marianne, though he could not but see her; and then continued his discourse with the same lady.
-- Miss Steele was going to reply on the same subject, but the approach of her own party made another more necessary.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let him meet with a young woman once and he would approach her with an air of kindly familiarity, not unmixed with pleading, which would result in most cases in a tolerant acceptance.
-- To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untravelled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing.
-- We see man far removed from the lairs of the jungles, his innate instincts dulled by too near an approach to free-will, his free- will not sufficiently developed to replace his instincts and afford him perfect guidance.
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