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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That evening Razumihin and she agreed what answers they must make to her mother's questions about Raskolnikov and made up a complete story for her mother's benefit of his having to go away to a distant part of Russia 748 Crime and Punishmenton a business commission, which would bring him in the end money and reputation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, afterseeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began tocome towards us, and to grow and grow.
-- Mymoney was all gone, I had nothing left to dispose of; I was hungry,thirsty, and worn out; and seemed as distant from my end as if Ihad remained in London.
-- Dick is a sort of distant connection ofmine; it doesn't matter how; I needn't enter into that.
-- "You may not be surprised to hear, Annie,"- no, to be sure,knowing that he never was really strong; what did I say just now?-"that I have undergone so much in this distant place, as to havedecided to leave it at all hazards; on sick leave, if I can; on totalresignation, if that is not to be obtained.
-- 'Distant and quiet as the NorthPole.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the present, he could not be spared, to his 'very great mortification and regret; but still he looked forward with the hope of coming to Randalls at no distant period.'
-- The wedding was no distant event, as the parties had only themselves to please, and nothing but the necessary preparations to wait for; and when he set out for Bath again, there was a general expectation, which a certain glance of Mrs. Cole's did not seem to contradict, that when he next entered Highbury he would bring his bride.
-- She was all pleasure and gratitude, both for Harriet and herself, and longed to be thanking him; and though too distant for speech, her countenance said much, as soon as she could catch his eye again.
-- Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty. The considerable slope, at nearly the foot of which the Abbey stood, gradu-ally acquired a steeper form beyond its grounds; and at half a mile distant was a bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur, well clothed with wood; and at the bottom of this bank, favourably placed and sheltered, rose the Abbey Mill Farm, with meadows in front, and the river making a close and handsome curve around it.
-- 'I am delighted to hear you speak so stoutly on the sub-ject,' replied Emma, smiling; 'but you do not mean to deny that there was a time and not very distant either when you gave me reason to understand that you did care about him?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.
-- The glow stretched down in this direction now, and touched the distant roof of Warren's Malthouse whither the shepherd was apparently bent: Boldwood followed at a distance.
-- ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS'On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints', in the distant barrack-town before-mentioned, at the end of a service without a sermon.
-- Boldwood, looking into the distant meadows, saw there three figures.
-- The sergeant brought his hand to the cap on the slope of his head, saluted, and returned to the distant group of haymakers.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequali-14 Frankensteinties of the ice.
-- We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in real-ity, so distant as we had supposed.
-- My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country, but Ernest never had your powers of application.
-- 'The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris.
-- 'As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and displayed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found lifeintolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
-- Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town thatsprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
-- Be cool and distant and he will understand.
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