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:
-- 'Then give them their bridles, and let them range the woods,' Heyward ventured to suggest.
-- At such moments, it seemed as if a vast range of country lay buried in eternal sleep; not the least sound arising from the forest, unless it was the distant and scarcely audible rippling of a water-course.
-- 'One would be to dismount the gentle ones, and let their beasts range the plain, by sending the Mohicans in front, we might then cut a lane through their sentries, and enter the fort over the dead bodies.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and 'sugared suppositions,' he journeyed along the sides of a range of hills which look out upon some of the goodliest scenes of the mighty Hudson.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With that he bowed and leered at me, and with a keen glance around which seemed to comprehend every object within his range of vision, however, small or trivial, went his way.
-- Not caring to venture within range of such missles again, the boy discreetly sent in his stead the first cause of the interruption, who now presented herself at the door.
-- As their discourse appeared to relate to matters in which they were warmly interested, however, she deemed it the best time for escaping unobserved; and crept away with slow and cautious steps, keeping in the shadow of the hedges, or forcing a path through them or the dry ditches, until she could emerge upon the road at a point beyond their range of vision.
-- His thoughts, as yet, have no wider range than home.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings.
-- Presently the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space, and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Not one of the men ashore had a musket, and before they could get within range for pistol shooting, we flattered ourselves we should be able to give a good account of a half-dozen at least.
-- I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This faculty (I verified it later) gave him a range of vision far superior to Ned Land's.
-- When this stranger fixed upon an object, his eyebrows met, his large eyelids closed around so as to contract the range of his vision, and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened by distance, as if he pierced those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes, and as if he read the very depths of the seas.
-- About eleven o'clock in the morning, the first range of mountains that form the centre of the island was traversed, and we had killed nothing.
-- The first thing I noticed was a range of mountains about two thousand feet high, the shapes of which were most capricious.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But between two particular people, any two people on earth, the range of pure sensational experience is limited.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
-- No, no!A stranger is a stranger, be he rich or poor: it will not suit me to permit any one the range of the place while I am off guard!'
-- You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also: unless it be that range of Greek and Latin, and that of French; and those I know one from another: it is as much as you can expect of a poor man's daughter.
扩展阅读: