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：
-- The Indian had dragged his companion towards the entrance of the RAMADA, and showed him the prairie, making him understand that now was the time when it was clear from the wolves; but that not a moment was to be lost, for should this maneuver not succeed, it would only render the situation of those left behind more desperate, and that he knew his horse well enough to be able to trust his wonderful lightness and swiftness to save them all.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.
-- But as to my uncle's death well, it all seems boiling up in my head, and I can't get it clear yet.
-- 'At the same time,' said Baskerville, 'it's clear enough that so long as there are none of the family at the Hall these peo-ple have a mighty fine home and nothing to do.'
-- The German was sent for but professed to know noth-ing of the matter, nor could any inquiry clear it up.
-- 'On the contrary, I have half a sovereign for you if you will give me a clear answer to my questions.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I give you all this information, prince, in order to make it clear to you that I am personally recommending you to this family, and that in so doing, I am more or less taking upon myself to answer for you.
-- Besides this, it was clear that the Epanchins' position gained each year, with geometrical accuracy, both as to fi-nancial solidity and social weight; and, therefore, the longer the girls waited, the better was their chance of making a brilliant match.
-- It soon became clear to Gania, after scenes of wrath and quarrellings at the domestic hearth, that his family were se-riously opposed to the match, and that Nastasia was aware of this fact was equally evident.
-- One was that Nastasia had entered into close and secret relations with the Epanchin girls a most unlikely rumour; another was that Nastasia had long satisfied herself of the fact that Gania was merely marrying her for money, and that his nature was gloomy and greedy, impatient and self-ish, to an extraordinary degree; and that although he had been keen enough in his desire to achieve a conquest before, yet since the two friends had agreed to exploit his passion for their own purposes, it was clear enough that he had begun to consider the whole thing a nuisance and a nightmare.
-- Her face is clear enough, isn't it?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Hector led the Trojans back from the ships, and held a council on the open space near the river, where there was a spot clear of corpses.
-- When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall they held their meeting on the open ground where there was a space clear of corpses, for it was here that when night fell Hector had turned back from his onslaught on the Argives.
-- With a loud clear voice he shouted to the Danaans, 'My friends, princes and coun-sellors of the Argives, defend the ships yourselves, for Jove has not suffered me to fight the whole day through against the Trojans.'
-- He was never clear of the foe, but was always in the thick of the fight; his spear was never idle; he poised and aimed it in every direction, so eager was he to hit someone from a distance or to fight him hand to hand.
-- Even as fierce ravening wolves that are feasting upon a homed stag which they have killed upon the mountains, and their jaws are red with blood they go in a pack to lap water from the clear spring with their long thin tongues; and they reek of blood and slaughter; they know not what fear is, for it is hunger drives them even so did the leaders and counsel-lors of the Myrmidons gather round the good squire of the fleet descendant of Aeacus, and among them stood Achilles himself cheering on both men and horses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mrs. Hall went to clear away the stranger's lunch, her idea that his mouth must also have been cut or disfigured in the accident she supposed him to have suffered, was confirmed, for he was smoking a pipe, and all the time that she was in the room he never loosened the silk muffler he had wrapped round the lower part of his face to put the mouthpiece to his lips.
-- "We'd better clear out from here!He's fighting mad!Mad!"
-- The moon in its first quarter hung over the westward hill, and the stars were clear and almost tropically bright.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abruptly the cruelty of this desertion became clear to me.
-- I suddenly turned away and thrust myself violently, possibly even frantically, through the bushes, anxious to get a clear space about me again.
-- Moreau's explanation stood before my mind, I clear and definite, from the moment of my awakening.
-- I talk-ed with Montgomery to clear my ideas of the way in which the Beast Folk lived.
-- I tried to review the whole situation as calmly as I could, but it was difficult to clear the thing of emotion.
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