spot是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 斑点； 地点v. 认出， 认清， 发现； 玷污， 弄脏，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I left the scarcelytasted breakfast, and went and rested my head on another table ina corner of the little room, which Minnie hastily cleared, lest Ishould spot the mourning that was lying there with my tears.
-- With his faceturned towards me, as he finished, but without looking at me, hetook his crooked thumb off the spot where he had planted it, andslowly and thoughtfully scraped his lank jaw with it, as if he wereshaving himself.
-- A quick glance of her eye towards the spot whereSteerforth was walking, with his mother leaning on his arm,showed me whom she meant; but beyond that, I was quite lost.
-- Our ashes, at a future period,will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to avenerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer, has acquired areputation, shall I say from China to Peru?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only half an hour before her friend called for her at Mrs. Goddard's, her evil stars had led her to the very spot where, at that moment, a trunk, directed to The Rev.
-- A ready-furnished house in a favourite spot was en-384 Emmagaged, and much benefit expected from the change.
-- There had been a time also when Emma would have been sorry to see Harriet in a spot so fa-vourable for the Abbey Mill Farm; but now she feared it not.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For these the indispensable conditions of existence are attachment to the soil of one particular spot by generation after generation.
-- The change from the customary spot and necessary occasion of such an act from the dressing hour in a bedroom to a time of travelling out of doors lent to the idle deed a novelty it did not intrinsically possess.
-- At evening he had fancifully traced it down the chimney to the spot of its origin seen the hearth and Bathsheba beside it beside it in her out-door dress; for the clothes she had worn on the hill were by association equally with her person included in the compass of his affection; they seemed at this early time of his love a necessary ingredient of the sweet mixture called Bathsheba Everdene.
-- she said, almost angrily, if not quite, an enlarging red spot rising in each cheek.
-- On coming close, he found there were no horses attached to it, the spot being apparently quite deserted.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sky was serene; and, as I was unable to rest, I resolved to visit the spot where my poor William had been murdered.
-- She had been out the whole of the night on which the murder had been committed and towards morning had been perceived by a market-woman not far from the spot where the body of the murdered child had been afterwards found.
-- If she had gone near the spot where his body lay, it was without her knowl-edge.
-- By some papers of her father which fell into her hands she heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot where he then re-sided.
-- The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there was unmistakably a grease spot on the front of the basque.
-- Mrs. Calvert did not like barbecue food anddeclared that the smells remained in the house for days, so her guests always sweltered on a flat unshaded spot aquarter of a mile from the house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up.
-- Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe.
-- This spot and these beautiful works upon it ought to be kept together by the Nation, after my son's time, for the people's enjoyment."
-- Having borne this flattering testimony to the merits of our dwelling-place, and having incidentally shown this tendency to call me "sir," Joe, being invited to sit down to table, looked all round the room for a suitable spot on which to deposit his hat,--as if it were only on some very few rare substances in nature that it could find a resting place,--and ultimately stood it on an extreme corner of the chimney-piece, from which it ever afterwards fell off at intervals.
-- All that water-side region of the upper and lower Pool below Bridge was unknown ground to me; and when I struck down by the river, I found that the spot I wanted was not where I had supposed it to be, and was anything but easy to find.
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