range是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 排列，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume them-selves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.
-- To Scrooge's horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who could sit upon anything in Fleet-street dur-ing the busy hours of the day, and not be dazed and deafened by two immense processions, one ever tending westward with the sun, the other ever tending eastward from the sun, both ever tending to the plains beyond the range of red and purple where the sun goes down!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay came distinctly into view.
-- The train, on leaving Sacramento, and passing the junction, Roclin, Auburn, and Colfax, entered the range of the Sierra Nevada.
-- It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American engineers found the most formidable difficulties in laying the road, and that the government granted a subsidy of forty-eight thousand dollars per mile, instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains.
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：
-- He is an intelligent fellow, very much so indeed, but he has his own range of ideas芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then called down a little break-neck range of steps behind adoor: 'Bring up that tea and bread-and-butter!'
-- But Miss Mowcher, finding that I was not at presentdisposed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that Iwas, for the time being, proof against the blandishments of thesmall bottle which she held up before one eye to enforce herpersuasions, said she would make a beginning on an early day,and requested the aid of my hand to descend from her elevatedstation.
-- 'The present communication is penned within the personal range (Icannot call it the society) of an individual, in a state closelybordering on intoxication, employed by a broker.
-- On one side of this line,' said Mr. Micawber, representing it on thedesk with the office ruler, 'is the whole range of the humanintellect, with a trifling exception; on the other, is that exception;that is to say, the affairs of Messrs. Wickfield and Heep, with allbelonging and appertaining thereunto.
-- Micawber being now on the eve of casting off the pecuniaryshackles that have so long enthralled him,' said Mrs. Micawber,'and of commencing a new career in a country where there issufficient range for his abilities,- which, in my opinion, isexceedingly important; Mr. Micawber's abilities peculiarlyrequiring space,- it seems to me that my family should signalise theoccasion by coming forward.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
-- She questioned him as to the society in Yorkshire the extent of the neigh-bourhood about Enscombe, and the sort; and could make out from his answers that, as far as Enscombe was con-cerned, there was very little going on, that their visitings were among a range of great families, none very near; and that even when days were fixed, and invitations accepted, it was an even chance that Mrs. Churchill were not in health and spirits for going; that they made a point of visiting no fresh person; and that, though he had his separate engage-ments, it was not without difficulty, without considerable address at times, that he could get away, or introduce an ac-quaintance for a night.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Along each side wall was a range of striding buttresses, throwing deep shadows on the spaces between them, which were perforated by lancet openings, combining in their proportions the precise requirements both of beauty and ventilation.
-- At three in the afternoon he found himself at the foot of a slope more than a mile in length, which ran to the ridge of a range of hills lying parallel with the shore, and forming a monotonous barrier between the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spire of Evian shone under the woods that surrounded it and the range of mountain above mountain by which it was over-hung.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now the range of marshes lay clear before us, with the sails of the ships on the river growing out of it; and we went into the churchyard, close to the graves of my unknown parents, Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and Also Georgiana, Wife of the Above.
-- It was an unhappy life that I lived; and its one dominant anxiety, towering over all its other anxieties, like a high mountain above a range of mountains, never disappeared from my view.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While she was absent, and out of hearing, a small white spaniel that belonged to one of the chief gar-deners, having got by accident into the garden, happened to range near the place where I lay: the dog, following the scent, came directly up, and taking me in his mouth, ran straight to his master wagging his tail, and set me gently on the ground.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the right, the range of mountains was prolonged indefinitely like a great system of natural fortifications, of which we skirted the glacis.
-- Sneffels is the termination of a long range of volcanic mountains, of a different character to the system of the island itself.
-- After all, I was very likely to be mistaken--and it was within the range of probability and possibility that we were not making our way through the strata of rocks which I believed I recognized piled on the lower layer of granitic formation.
-- "It is quite within the range of possibility," rejoined my uncle, smiling.
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