far是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 远， 久远， 遥远ad. 到…程度， …得多，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：
-- 'It is required of every man,' the Ghost returned, 'that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
-- 'Why, it isn't possible,' said Scrooge, 'that I can have slept through a whole day and far into another night.
-- For, the people who were shovelling away on the house-tops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a face-tious snowball better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.
-- They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.
-- Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea on, on until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration, being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart.
-- He wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass.
-- His linen, though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings, was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring beach, or the specks of sail that glinted in the sunlight far at sea.
-- 'You might treble that, and say a hundred and fifty, yet not be far from the truth.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But so he did; for his name was renowned far and wide; and there were a hundred prin- cesses who would have answered, 'Yes!'
-- In one of the houses not far from the new market a party was invited a very large party, in order, as is often the case, to get a return invitation from the others.
-- Amongst other things they spoke of the middle ages: some praised that period as far more interesting, far more poetical than our own too sober present; indeed Councillor Knap defended this opin-18 Andersen's Fairy Talesion so warmly, that the hostess declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with unwearied el-oquence.
-- 'No I am far from well,' sighed he; 'and yet I drank only one glass of punch; but I cannot suppose it it was, too, re-ally very wrong to give us punch and hot salmon for supper.
-- So far all went on well.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
-- But Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been talking with far less heat and one-sidedness than the professor, and who had sufficient breadth of mind to answer the professor, and at the same time to comprehend the simple and natural point of view from which the question was put, smiled and said: "That question we have no right to answer as yet."
-- At these words Levin's face suddenly lighted up with a smile, a smile not far from tears of emotion.
-- "I've told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I believe the chances are in your favor."
-- But over her own daughters she had felt how far from simple and easy is the business, apparently so commonplace, of marrying off one's daughters.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout had been a sort of vagrant in his early years, and now yearned for repose; but so far he had failed to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses.
-- But Stuart was far from sharing this confidence; and, as they placed themselves at the whist-table, they continued to argue the matter.
-- Perhaps they would go as far as Paris, and it would do his eyes good to see Paris once more.
-- Fix," said the consul, "I like your way of talking, and hope you'll succeed; but I fear you will find it far from easy.
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