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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.
-- Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody knew that she herself possessed forty thousand francs, accumulated _sou by sou_, that was her secret; surely as far as money was concerned she was a very tolerable match.
-- She was not at all inclined to draw a hard-and-fast line, or to take umbrage at his sending for them to the Maison Vauquer; yet, inasmuch as these visits explained her boarder's indifference to 莽卢卢13 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 her, she went so far (at the end of the second year) as to speak of him as an "ugly old wretch."
-- Vauquer's lodging- house and Father Goriot were very far remote from his thoughts.
-- She had noticed the inflection in her husband's voice, and knew that it would not be safe to retire to the boudoir; like all women who are compelled to study their husbands' characters in order to have their own way, and whose business it is to know exactly how far they can go without endangering a good understanding, she was very careful to avoid petty collisions in domestic life.
-- cried the Count, her husband, "this gentleman's family estate is not far from Verteuil, on the Charente; his great-uncle and my grandfather were acquainted."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
-- They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
-- Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.
-- Once, however, the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle.
-- He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge which had before appeared; but I have persuaded him to remain in the cabin, for he is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmo-sphere.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now they were both in love with her, and India Wilkes and Letty Munroe, from Lovejoy, whom Brent had beenhalf-heartedly courting, were far in the back of their minds.
-- As far back as Scarlett could remember, her mother had always been the same, her voice soft and sweet whetherin praising or in reproving, her manner efficient and unruffled despite the daily emergencies of Gerald's turbulenthousehold, her spirit always calm and her back unbowed, even in the deaths of her three baby sons.
-- In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers,he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to visit the oldtowns westward from that city.
-- Gerald bragged that she was the belle of five counties, and with some truth, for she had received proposals from nearlyall the young men in the neighborhood and many from places as far away as Atlanta and Savannah.
-- The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sankdown, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gauntand yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers aspossible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After darkly looking at his leg and me several times, he came closer to my tombstone, took me by both arms, and tilted me back as far as he could hold me; so that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his.
-- Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror.
-- In the pantry, which was far more abundantly supplied than usual, owing to the season, I was very much alarmed by a hare hanging up by the heels, whom I rather thought I caught, when my back was half turned, winking.
-- I knew my way to the Battery, pretty straight, for I had been down there on a Sunday with Joe, and Joe, sitting on an old gun, had told me that when I was 'prentice to him, regularly bound, we would have such Larks there!However, in the confusion of the mist, I found myself at last too far to the right, and consequently had to try back along the river-side, on the bank of loose stones above the mud and the stakes that staked the tide out.
-- I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not gone far before they saw a cat sitting in the middle of the road and making a most rueful face.
-- So they both went out upon the high road; but as the weather was warm, they had not gone far before the dog said, 'I am very much tired I should like to take a nap.'
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