clear是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 清晰的(地) vt. 清除； 使清楚vi. 变清澈，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Isn't the document quite clear now?
-- "It is clear enough, Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, "that the elements are against you."
-- "Yes, it's clear enough the man speaks Spanish."
-- So you can make your mind easy, my good friend; by sunrise the sky will be quite clear again."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - Went to the wreck, and carried an iron crow to wrench up the deck, which lay now quite clear of the water or sand.
-- When I had passed the vale where my bower stood, as above, I came within view of the sea to the west, and it being a very clear day, I fairly descried land - whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending from the W. to the W.S.W.
-- When I saw them clear red, I let them stand in that heat about five or six hours, till I found one of them, though it did not crack, did melt or run; for the sand which was mixed with the clay melted by the violence of the heat, and would have run into glass if I had gone on; so I slacked my fire gradually till the pots began to abate of the red colour; and watching them all night, that I might not let the fire abate too fast, in the morning I had three very good (I will not say hand-some) pipkins, and two other earthen pots, as hard burnt as could be desired, and one of them perfectly glazed with the running of the sand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Dashwood, who could not think a man five years younger than herself, so exceedingly ancient as he appeared to the youthful fancy of her daughter, ventured to clear Mrs. Jennings from the probability of wishing to throw ridicule on his age.
-- The slightest mention of anything relative to Willoughby overpowered her in an instant; and though her family were most anxiously attentive to her comfort, it was impossible for them, if they spoke at all, to keep clear of every subject which her feelings connected with him.
-- The clouds seem parting too, the sun will be out in a moment, and we shall have a clear afternoon."
-- Her narration was clear and simple; and though it could not be given without emotion, it was not accompanied by violent agitation, nor impetuous grief. THAT belonged rather to the hearer, for Marianne listened with horror, and cried excessively.
-- His mother explained to him her liberal designs, in case of his marrying Miss Morton; told him she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year; offered even, when matters grew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their clothes were neat, in many instances fine, and wherever she encountered the eye of one it was only to recognise in it a keen analysis of her own position--her individual shortcomings of dress and that shadow of manner which she thought must hang about her and make clear to all who and what she was.
-- It was all so clear when she was with Drouet.
-- How plenty of it would clear away all these troubles.
-- It was for him to brush the doubts away and clear the path if he could.
-- As usual, she helped Minnie clear away the dishes and straighten up.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I hadn't left a track.
-- Then I slid out quiet and throwed the snakes clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it.
-- When I was about the middle I heard the clock begin to strike, so I stops and lis-tens; the sound come faint over the water but clear eleven.
-- I had to claw away from the bank pretty lively four or five times, to keep from knocking the islands out of the river; and so I judged the raft must be butting into the bank every now and then, or else it would get further ahead and clear out of hearing it was floating a little faster than what I was.
-- The lot of towheads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome people and all kinds of mean folks, but if we minded our business and didn't talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the free States, and wouldn't have no more trouble.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he jumped clear across it.
-- How frightened was poor Pinocchio!He ran back wildly for half a mile, and at last settled himself atop a heap of stones to wait for the Serpent to go on his way and leave the road clear for him.
扩展阅读：