distant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 远的； 遥远的； 疏远的； 不亲近的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Distant relation.
-- Occa-sionally, a stray workman putting his coat on, traversed the hall, or a stranger peered about there, or a distant clink was heard across the courtyard, or a thump from the golden gi-ant.
-- The corner echoed and re-echoed with the tread of feet; some, as it seemed, under the windows; some, as it seemed, in the room; some coming, some going, some breaking off, some stopping altogether; all in the distant streets, and not one within sight.
-- He was so much too big for Tellson's, that old clerks in distant corners looked up with looks of remonstrance, as though he squeezed them against the wall.
-- Mr. Lorry glanced at the distant House, and glanced at the angry Stryver.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when the spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced her arrival, a new and busy life arose; with songs and hurrahs the ice was sawn asunder, the ships were fresh tarred and rigged, that they might sail away to distant lands.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hiss of the boiler could be heard on the distant rails, and the rumble of something heavy.
-- The storm swooped down, enveloped him and the haycock on which he was lying, and the other haycocks, and the wagon-loads, and the whole meadow and distant fields all seemed to be shaking and singing to the measures of this wild merry song with its shouts and whistles and clapping.
-- A distant part of the estate, a tract of waste land that had lain fallow for eight years, was with the help of the clever carpenter, Fyodor Ryezunov, taken by six families of peasants on new conditions of partnership, and the peasant Shuraev took the management of all the vegetable gardens on the same terms.
-- Was it not youth to feel as he felt now, when coming from the other side to the edge of the wood he saw in the glowing light of the slanting sunbeams the gracious figure of Varenka in her yellow gown with her basket, walking lightly by the trunk of an old birch tree, and when this impression of the sight of Varenka blended so harmoniously with the beauty of the view, of the yellow oatfield lying bathed in the slanting sunshine, and beyond it the distant ancient forest flecked with yellow and melting into the blue of the distance?
-- This was Vassenka Veslovsky, a distant cousin of the Shtcherbatskys, a brilliant young gentleman in Petersburg and Moscow society.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hasty departure from London soon after the robbery; the large sum carried by Mr. Fogg; his eagerness to reach distant countries; the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet all confirmed Fix in his theory.
-- In these distant seas, coal is worth three or four pounds sterling a ton.
-- The murmur soon became more distinct; it now seemed like a distant concert of human voices accompanied by brass instruments.
-- Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast.
-- He was only six hours distant from London.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He drifted toward the distant medical campus.
-- It looked out on breezy, stubbly waste land reaching to distant glittering railroad tracks.
-- After the train there was silence but for the crickets and a distant frog.
-- If he was bored by the United Brethren minister's discourse on doctrine, on the wickedness of movies, and the scandalous pay of pastors, it was not at all because he was a distant and supersensitive young man but because he found more savor in the garageman's salty remarks on the art of remembering to ante in poker.
-- He saw that, with her infernal school physician, Leora was sliding on a distant slope.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A very distant one.
-- Bending over the water, he gazed mechanically at the last pink flush of the sunset, at the row of houses growing dark in the gathering twilight, at one distant attic window on the left bank, flash-ing as though on fire in the last rays of the setting sun, at the darkening water of the canal, and the water seemed to catch his attention.
-- I am not intrusive; I used to get on all right with card-sharpers, and I never bored Prince Svirbey, a great personage who is a distant relation of mine, and I could write about Rapha-el's Madonna in Madam Prilukov's album, and I never left Marfa Petrovna's side for seven years, and I used to stay the night at Viazemsky's house in the Hay Market in the old days, and I may go up in a balloon with Berg, perhaps.'
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