threshold是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 门槛; 开始; 开端, 入门，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have pity also on your unhappy father while life yet remains to him on me, whom the son of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom on the threshold of old age, after I have seen my sons slain and my daughters haled away as captives, my bridal chambers pillaged, little children dashed to earth amid the rage of battle, and my sons' wives dragged away by the cruel hands of the Achaeans; in the end fierce hounds will tear me in pieces at my own gates after some one has beaten the life out of my body with sword or spear-hounds that I myself reared and fed at my own table to guard my gates, but who will yet lap my blood and then lie all distraught at my doors.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
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：
-- No sooner were these females seated, than their atten-dant sprang lightly into the saddle of the war-horse, when the whole three bowed to Webb, who in courtesy, awaited their parting on the threshold of his cabin and turning their horses' heads, they proceeded at a slow amble, followed by their train, toward the northern entrance of the encamp-ment.
-- Heyward turned the instant she gave a direction to his sus-picions, and peering just above the ledge which formed the threshold of the open outlet of the cavern, he beheld the malignant, fierce and savage features of Le Renard Subtil.
-- He found them on the threshold of the low edifice, already prepared to depart, and surrounded by a clamorous and weeping assemblage of their own sex, that had gathered about the place, with a sort of instinctive consciousness that it was the point most likely to be protected.
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：
-- It seemed to me that I was on the threshold of a surprising adventure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To have parted from her only other friend upon the threshold of that wild journey, would have wrung her heart indeed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff got sight of her when she appeared on the threshold and before she saw the inspector.
-- He had scarcely donned the overcoat handed him by the girl with the bandaged eye and crossed the threshold when the distinct sounds of Clementi's roulade broke out.
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：
-- On the threshold stood the two children in their long nightgowns, with wide-eyed, angelic faces.
-- And today was the white, snowy iridescent threshold of all possibility.
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