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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they went perfectly smoothly along without jolts or jerks, and sometimes on the contrary, the plateau would reel and roll like a ship in a storm, coasting past abysses in which fragments of the mountain were falling, tearing up trees by the roots, and leveling, as if with the keen edge of an immense scythe, every projection of the declivity.
-- It has frequently driven oxen over the edge of precipices down into the depths of abysses.
-- The native trees are only found on the edge of long prairies and about Cape Corrientes.
-- They camped at the foot of the Alps, on the banks of the creek of Cobongra, on the edge of a little plain, covered with little shrubs four feet high, with bright red leaves which gladdened the eye.
-- This phosphorescent light illumined the distance half a mile, and McNabbs fancied he saw a shadow pass across the edge of it.
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：
-- 'Yes; they were on the edge of the path on the same side as the moor-gate.'
-- It was a pleasant walk of four miles along the edge of the moor, leading me at last to a small gray hamlet, in which two larg-er buildings, which proved to be the inn and the house of Dr. Mortimer, stood high above the rest.
-- There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cut-ting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
-- You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a prec-ipice.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She continu-ally trembled and blushed, and she sat on the very edge of the seat.
-- He sat down on the edge of his chair, smiling and mak-ing faces, and rubbing his hands, and looking as though he were in delighted expectation of hearing some important communication, which had been long guessed by all.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the axe in his hand, so keen is the edge of your scorn.
-- I have good sons, and also much people who might call the chieftains, but the Achaeans are in the gravest danger; life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.
-- In his strong hand he grasped his terrible sword, keen of edge and flashing like lightning; woe to him who comes across it in the day of battle; all men quake for fear and keep away from it.
-- As a carpenter's line gives a true edge to a piece of ship's tim-ber, in the hand of some skilled workman whom Minerva has instructed in all kinds of useful arts even so level was the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought some round one and some round another.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The struggle blundered round the edge of the door.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; I am just on here from Indianapolis for a week or so," said young Ames, seating himself on the edge of a chair to wait while Mrs. Vance completed the last touches of her toilet.
-- The other simply motioned to-ward the edge of the walk.
-- Before him was the line of unfortunates whose beds were yet to be had, and seeing a newcomer quietly edge up and take a position at the end of the line, he decided to do likewise.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill- top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand.
-- I changed to the Il-linois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warn't disappointed.
-- I give her a turn with the paddle and brung her nose to shore; then I got my gun and slipped out and into the edge of the woods.
-- We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the sky-light, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water.
-- 'She was a-visiting there at Booth's Landing, and just in the edge of the evening she started over with her nigger woman in the horse-ferry to stay all night at her friend's house, Miss What-you-may-call-herQI disremember her name and they lost their steering- oar, and swung around and went a-floating down, stern first, about two mile, and saddle-baggsed on the wreck, and the ferryman and the nig-ger woman and the horses was all lost, but Miss Hooker she made a grab and got aboard the wreck.
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