edge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 边， 棱； 刀口， 刃v. 侧身移动， 挤进，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Onedirty-faced man, I think he was a bootmaker, used to edge himselfinto the passage as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and callup the stairs, to Mr. Micawber- 'Come!You ain't out yet, youknow.
-- Itwas some small satisfaction to me to observe his spare, short-waisted, high-shouldered, mulberry-coloured greatcoat perchedup, in company with an umbrella like a small tent, on the edge ofthe back-seat on the roof, while Agnes was, of course, inside; butwhat I underwent in my efforts to be friendly with him, whileAgnes looked on, perhaps deserved that little recompense.
-- Traddles, sitting on the edge of his chair,with his eyes wide open, and his hair more emphatically erect thanever, stared by turns at the ground and at Mr. Micawber, withoutso much as attempting to put in a word.
-- 691Seeing that what he said had no effect on me or any of us, he sat onthe edge of his table with his hands in his pockets, and one of hissplay feet twisted round the other leg, waiting doggedly for whatmight follow.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The inquiring farmer would edge away and shake his head dubiously.
-- "Incline the edge so," he said.
-- Then the veil had to be tied at its lower edge round his collar and the gloves put on him.
-- It may safely be asserted with respect to the closeness of his cuts, that had it been possible for the edge of the sword to leave in the air a permanent substance wherever it flew past, the space left untouched would have been almost a mould of Bathsheba's figure.
-- Troy had taken his part very quietly this time, venturing to introduce a few speeches on occasion; and was just concluding it when, whilst standing at the edge of the circle contiguous to the first row of spectators, he observed within a yard of him the eye of a man darted keenly into his side features.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.
-- I lighted the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched.
-- I turned with loathing from the woman who could ut-ter so unfeeling a speech to a person just saved, on the very edge of death; but I felt languid and unable to reflect on all 218 Frankensteinthat had passed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
-- There was a reasonably good path now, mostly on the edge of the river, with a divergence here and there where a dike came, with a miniature windmill on it and a muddy sluice-gate.
-- But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler.
-- Now, as they went along, Herbert reflected, that I might, after all, have been brought there on some genuine and serviceable errand tending to Provis's safety, and, bethinking himself that in that case interruption must be mischievous, left his guide and Startop on the edge of the quarry, and went on by himself, and stole round the house two or three times, endeavouring to ascertain whether all was right within.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watch-ing her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell.
-- The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy: and when he came to the sea, it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very calm; and he went close to the edge of the waves, and said: 'O man of the sea!
-- Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water; and after a little while he came up again, with the ball in his mouth, and threw it on the edge of the spring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men called and listened as she had done, and examined the edge of the chasm, and settled how it had happened, and then sat down to wait until the implements they wanted should come up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yonder on the edge of the horizon, you see Sneffels."
-- The rugged summits of the rocky hills were dimly visible on the edge of the horizon, through the misty fogs; every now and then some heavy flakes of snow showed conspicuous in the morning light, while certain lofty and pointed rocks were first lost in the grey low clouds, their summits clearly visible above, like jagged reefs rising from a troublous sea.
-- His horse went to the very edge of the water, sniffed at the approaching wave and retreated.
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