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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Stroeve did all the housework herself; and while Dirk painted bad pictures, she went marketing, cooked the luncheon, sewed, occupied herself like a busy ant all the day; and in the evening sat in the studio, sewing again, while Dirk played music which I am sure was far beyond her comprehension.
-- I think I'd forgotten it all; I seemed to have come so far away from my father's house that I was shy at the idea of revisiting it; but now I feel it's my only refuge."
-- It is as though in this far country his spirit, that had wandered disembodied, seeking a tenement, at last was able to clothe itself in flesh.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon the isle appeared as if it had descended from a cloud, then the sea showed itself around them, spreading far away towards the east, but bounded on the west by an abrupt and precipitous coast.
-- They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach, far from which the tide had now retreated; but instead of going towards the north, they went southward.
-- Pencroft and Herbert penetrated quite far in among the rocks, by sandy passages in which light was not wanting, for it entered through the openings which were left between the blocks, of which some were only sustained by a miracle of equilibrium; but with the light came also air a regular corridor-gale and with the wind the sharp cold from the exterior.
-- But it was possible that at this time they were both too far away to be perceived.
-- Pencroft searched in vain for some of those precious palm-trees which am employed in so many ways in domestic life, and which have been found as far as the fortieth parallel in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the thirty-filth only in the Southern Hemisphere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Who has sent you so far by yourself?'
-- He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one.
-- The breast of his coat was ornamented with an outside pocket from which there peeped forth the cleanest end of a very large and very ill-favoured handkerchief; his dirty wristbands were pulled on as far as possible and ostentatiously folded back over his cuffs; he displayed no gloves, and carried a yellow cane having at the top a bone hand with the semblance of a ring on its little finger and a black ball in its grasp.
-- To relate how it was a long time before his modesty could be so far prevailed upon as it admit of his sitting down in the parlour, in the presence of an unknown gentleman how, when he did set down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book and squinted horribly at the lines how, from the very first moment of having the pen in his hand, he began to wallow in blots, and to daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair how, if he did by accident form a letter properly, he immediately smeared it out again with his arm in his preparations to make another how, at every fresh mistake, there was a fresh burst of merriment from the child and louder and not less hearty laugh from poor Kit himself and how there was all the way through, notwithstanding, a gentle wish on her part to teach, and an anxious desire on his to learn to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve.
-- And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader, I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course, and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was now so far advanced on the road to maternity that to look for a position was out of the question.
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
-- When he was chaste, and wished to preserve his chastity till marriage, his relatives were anxious about his health, and his mother, so far from being mortified, rather rejoiced when she learned that he had become a real man, and had enticed the French mistress of some friend of his.
-- He was told unceasingly that so far from enriching it only impoverished the peasants, who opened three liquor stores and stopped working entirely.
-- He was yet far from such acknowledgment, and at this moment was only thinking how to avoid disclosure which might be made by her, or her attorney, and thus disgrace him before everybody.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Easier, far easier down than up."
-- Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less scepticism.
-- The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another a quiet, shy man with a beard whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
-- Later, I was to appreciate how far it fell short of the reality.
-- Explanation"So far as I could see, all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or let me see suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once!Well, I shouldn't mind that much!I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
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