rank是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 军衔， 社会阶层； 排v. 分等级， 把…分类，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their long-ing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King's Bench, the florid countenance of Mr. Stryver might be daily seen, bursting out of the bed of wigs, like a great sunflower pushing its way 119at the sun from among a rank garden-full of flaring com-panions.
-- Crouching down again in a cor-ner there, and looking in, he made out the three fishermen creeping through some rank grass!and all the gravestones in the churchyard it was a large churchyard that they were in looking on like ghosts in white, while the church tower itself looked on like the ghost of a monstrous giant.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A far more, correct imagination than that of the pseudo-Herschel* had created them; and if they had been placed in rank and file, and copied by some skilful painter's hand, one would, without doubt, have exclaimed involuntarily, 'What a beautiful arabesque!'
-- The sun shone, the birds sang, and the chil-dren sang too, and each held the other by the hand; for as yet they had none of them any high office, and were all of equal rank in the eye of God.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The colonel and Vronsky were both fully aware that Vronsky's name and rank would be sure to contribute greatly to softening of the injured husband's feelings.
-- The rest, like the rank and file before an engagement, though they were getting ready for the fight, sought for other distractions in the interval.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the garcons had no military rank whatever, nor any military duties except the polishing of brown riding-boots and leather puttees, which the several warriors wore as pleased their fancies or their legs.
-- The man whose social rank was next to his own-- the Hon.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is already of the rank of a counsellor, Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, and is distantly related to Marfa Petrovna, who has been very active in bringing the match about.
-- Lizaveta was of lower rank than her sister, un-married and awfully uncouth in appearance, remarkably tall with long feet that looked as if they were bent outwards.
-- The certificate of honour immediately passed into the hands of the drunken guests, and Katerina Ivanovna did not try to retain it, for it actually contained the statement en toutes lettres that her father was of the rank of a major, and also a companion of an order, so that she really was almost the daughter of a colonel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shetook so kindly to me, that, in the course of a few weeks, sheshortened my adopted name of Trotwood into Trot; and evenencouraged me to hope, that if I went on as I had begun, I mighttake equal rank in her affections with my sister Betsey Trotwood.
-- The inhabitants appearedto have a propensity to throw any little trifles they were not inwant of, into the road: which not only made it rank and sloppy, butuntidy too, on account of the cabbage-leaves.
-- Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all themarshy land in the vicinity.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.
-- Six years hence, if he could meet with a good sort of young woman in the same rank as his own, with a little money, it might be very desirable.'
-- They would be estimated very differently by others as well as myself; Mr. Martin may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society. The sphere in which she moves is much above his. It would be a degradation.'
-- But that he should talk of encouragement, should con-sider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! should suppose him-self her equal in connexion or mind! look down upon her friend, so well understanding the gradations of rank below him, and be so blind to what rose above, as to fancy himself shewing no presumption in addressing her! It was most provoking.
-- She would have given a great deal, or endured a great deal, to have had the Martins in a higher rank of life.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, no; what's right is right, and I never said sir to the bird, knowing very well that no man of a gentleman's rank would be hollering there at that time o' night.
-- I believe he was higher in rank than a private."
-- Bathsheba, with a sad, bursting heart, looked at these primest specimens of her prime flock as they rolled there Swoln with wind and the rank mist they drew.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
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