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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the dim thundering was so distant that, for a moment, she could not tell.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- The ringing of a distant bell, combined with the echoing of some cry or call along the passage by which I had come, interrupted the conversation and caused Estella to say to me, "Now, boy!"
-- It was such a very provoking question (for it had never in the most distant manner occurred to me), that I said, snappishly,--"Biddy, what do you mean?"
-- Then, in a distant Missionary way he asked them certain questions,--as why little Joe had that hole in his frill, who said, Pa, Flopson was going to mend it when she had time,--and how little Fanny came by that whitlow, who said, Pa, Millers was going to poultice it when she didn't forget.
-- He appeared to me to have obscurely hinted in his letter at some distant idea he had of seeing you in England here.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time the emperor had a great desire that I should see the magnificence of his palace; but this I was not able to do till three days after, which I spent in cut-ting down with my knife some of the largest trees in the royal park, about a hundred yards distant from the city.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- And who knows but that even this prodigious race of mor-tals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery.
-- The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred 209yards distant from the centre.
-- For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) as-sign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the min-eral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a child now, of fifteen or sixteen; but at no distant day would seem to become a woman all at once.
-- The distant smoke very black and heavy.
-- Mrs. Sparsit was too distant to hear a word of their discourse, or even to know that they were speaking softly, otherwise than from the expression of their figures; but what they said was this:'You recollect the man, Mr.
-- As neither of the three could be his companion without almost identifying him under any disguise, he prepared a letter to a correspondent whom he could trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the most speedily and privately dispatched.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps no vessel was bound for such distant parts.
-- What, then, must be the state of the less known and more distant parts of the island?
-- "Yes," continued my uncle, who always when explaining anything spoke as if he were in a professor's chair; "we are not more than thirty-five leagues distant from that wonderful land.
-- At this moment I heard an accustomed and well-known sound running along the floors of the granite rock--a kind of dull and sullen roar, like that of a distant waterfall.
-- At length, on Wednesday the fifteenth, we were actually seven leagues (twenty-one miles) below the surface of the earth, and fifty leagues distant from the mountain of Sneffels.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a man in dark green velveteens and gaiters...the old style, with a red face and red moustache and distant eyes.
-- He kept distant from her, and would not come any near-er.
-- And from the top he could see the country, bright rows of lights at Stacks Gate, smaller lights at Tevershall pit, the yellow lights of Tevershall and lights everywhere, here and there, on the dark country, with the distant blush of furnaces, faint and rosy, since the night was clear, the rosiness of the outpouring of white-hot metal.
-- The larks were trilling away over the park, the distant pit in the hollow was fuming silent steam.
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