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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It came to rest poised twenty inches above the front edge of the seat of the chair.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hesitated, and sat down in the edge of the shade.
-- Then suddenly it turned parallel with the edge of a steep-walled gap, which came without warning, like the ha-ha of an Eng-lish park, turned with an unexpected abruptness.
-- I walked to the very edge of the salt water, and then I felt I was safe.
-- Then at three or four points on the edge of the sulphurous area appeared the grotesque forms of the Beast People hurrying towards us.
-- At the edge of the rocks the Leopard-man, realising that he was making for the project-ing cape upon which he had stalked me on the night of my arrival, had doubled in the undergrowth; but Montgomery had seen the manoeuvre, and turned him again.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the Black Panther asking for help.
-- So Mowgli stretched himself in some long, clean grass at the edge of the field, but before he had closed his eyes a soft gray nose poked him under the chin.
-- When I come down here again, I will wait for thee in the bamboos at the edge of the grazing-ground.'
-- Mowgli drove them on to the edge of the plain where the Waingunga came out of the jungle; then he dropped from Rama's neck, trotted off to a bamboo clump, and found Gray Brother.
-- The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting-yell, and they pitched over one after the other, just as steamers shoot rap-ids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.
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：
-- Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat, when bounding to the edge of the river it fell, dyeing the waters with its blood.
-- The young native had already descended to the water to comply, when a long howl was raised on the edge of the riv-er, and was borne swiftly off into the depths of the forest, as though the beasts, of their own accord, were abandoning their prey in sudden terror.
-- The river had worn away the edge of the soft rock in such a man-ner as to render its first pitch less abrupt and perpendicular than is usual at waterfalls.
-- At the next moment, a fifth form was seen floating over the green edge of the fall, a little from the line of the island.
-- Then, replacing his knife and tomahawk in his girdle, the warrior moved silent-ly to the edge of the rock which was most concealed from the banks of the river.
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：
-- A mango grew in front of the house, and at the edge of the clearing were two flamboyants, twin trees, that challenged the gold of the cocoa-nuts with their scarlet flowers.
-- He lived out of the town, but the Hotel de la Fleur was on the edge of it, and we were quickly in the country.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.
-- Exactly two hundred feet behind the angle formed by the river, the wall, terminated by a fall of rocks, died away in a gentle slope to the edge of the forest.
-- Then, from the edge of this forest to the shore extended a plain, scattered irregularly with groups of trees.
-- Sometimes, too, the ground suddenly fell, and they found themselves on the edge of a deep chasm which they had to go round.
-- The engineer, accordingly, regardless of fatigue, leaving Pencroft and Neb to arrange the beds, and Gideon Spilett to note the incidents of the day, began to follow the edge of the plateau, going towards the north.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Messrs Codlin and Short, after looking at each other with considerable doubt and indecision, at length sat down each on the extreme edge of the chair pointed out to him and held their hats very tight, while the single gentleman filled a couple of glasses from a bottle on the table beside him, and presented them in due form.
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