league是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 同盟， 联盟； 联合会， 社团，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：
-- Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those days, travellers were very shy of being confidential on a short notice, for anybody on the road might be a rob-ber or in league with robbers.
-- The valet had put her away from the door, the carriage had broken into a brisk trot, the postilions had quickened the pace, she was left far behind, and Monseigneur, again escorted by the Furies, was rapidly diminishing the league or two of distance that remained between him and his cha-165teau.
-- At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier I did not estimate the dis-tance at that time, but afterwards when I traversed it it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I often wonder why people are all in league to spoil me.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tried to become an executive and a reformer!He, the cynic, the anarch, tried to found an Institution, and he went at it like a spinster organizing a league to keep small boys from learning naughty words.
-- He was off on a new enthusiasm, the most virulent of his whole life: he was organizing the League of Cultural Agencies.
-- Tubbs was all over the Institute inviting the researchers to join him in the League of Cultural Agencies with its fascinating committee-meetings and dinners.
-- "They say he's gone to his League of Cultural Agencies.
-- This fellow Minnigen has given the League a scad of money, and Tubbs is to get twice the salary he had here!"
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What has it been but a system of hypocrisy and deceit, espionage, and treachery? To come among us with professions of openness and simplicity; and such a league in secret to judge us all! Here have we been, the whole winter and spring, completely duped, fancying ourselves all on an equal footing of truth and honour, with two people in the midst of us who may have been carrying round, comparing and sitting in judgment on sentiments and words that were never meant for both to hear. They must take the conse-quence, if they have heard each other spoken of in a way not perfectly agreeable!'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We possessed a house 31in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
-- It was completely dark when I arrived in the environs of Geneva; the gates of the town were already shut; and I was obliged to pass the night at Secheron, a village at the distance of half a league from the city.
-- She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at about a league from Geneva.
-- The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in cross-ing it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
-- 'A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,' replied Little Red-Cap.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- hree days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to Tthe north- east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
-- Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September 1701, at six in the morning; and when I had gone about four-leagues to 92 Gulliver's Travelsthe northward, the wind being at south-east, at six in the evening I descried a small island, about half a league to the north-west.
-- We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed in the long-boat, with vessels for water, if any could be found.
-- We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot.
-- The wind was very favour-able; however, I made use at first only of my paddles; but considering I should soon be weary, and that the wind might chop about, I ventured to set up my little sail; and thus, with the help of the tide, I went at the rate of a league and a half an hour, as near as I could guess.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During some days, we actually descended a league and a half, even two leagues towards the centre of the earth.
-- Now, allowing a thousand and twenty feet for every second--we have twenty thousand four hundred feet--a league and a half and one-eighth."
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