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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It so happened that Prince S introduced a distant re-lation of his own into the Epanchin family one Evgenie Pavlovitch, a young officer of about twenty-eight years of age, whose conquests among the ladies in Moscow had been proverbial.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came from distant Pylos, and went about among them, for they would have me come, and I fought as it was in me to do.
-- There are many allies dispersed about the city of Priam from distant places and speaking divers tongues.
-- Pyraechmes led the Paeonian archers from distant Amydon, by the broad waters of the river Axius, the fairest that flow upon the earth.
-- Odius and Epistrophus were captains over the Halizoni from distant Alybe, where there are mines of silver.
-- Sarpedon and Glaucus led the Lycians from their distant land, by the eddying waters of the Xanthus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once I was arrested by the distant voice of Mont-gomery bawling, 'Coo-ee Moreau!'
-- I watched the distant figure until it went away again.
-- The heavy smoke drove up the beach away from me, rolling low over the distant tree-tops towards the huts in the ravine.
-- It was still distant when night came and swallowed it up; and all night I toiled to keep my blaze bright and high, and the eyes of the Beasts shone out of the darkness, mar-velling.
-- At most times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, a memory, and a faint dis-trust; but there are times when the little cloud spreads until it obscures the whole sky.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- For a single in-stant his searching and yet wary glance met the wondering look of the other, and then changing its direction, partly in cunning, and partly in disdain, it remained fixed, as if pen-etrating the distant air.
-- Besides,' she added, in a low and hurried voice, casting a glance at the distant Cora, who slowly followed the foot-steps of their silent, but sullen guide, 'it may be a friend added to our strength, in time of need.'
-- Still that breathing silence, which marks the drowsy sultriness of an American landscape in July, pervaded the secluded spot, interrupted only by the low voices of the men, the oc-casional and lazy tap of a woodpecker, the discordant cry of some gaudy jay, or a swelling on the ear, from the dull roar of a distant waterfall.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, 'in linked sweetness long drawn out,' floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain.
-- The old farmers gath-ered together their families in their wagons, and were heard for some time rattling along the hollow roads, and over the distant hills.
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them calm and prosperous lives, and in their decent decay they kept still an aroma of their splendid past.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that distant echo was the only response produced by Neb's shouts, while a heavy gloom hung over all the part east of the island.
-- Pencroft listened more attentively, and really thought he heard, during a lull, distant barking.
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