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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were 146 Frankensteinallowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.
-- When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They waved their handkerchiefs and cried gay good-bys to him; butMaybelle, gripping Scarlett's arm, whispered: "Oh, the poor old darling!A real good rainstorm will just about finishhim!His lumbago " Uncle Henry Hamilton marched in the rank behind Grandpa Merriwether, the collar of his long black coat turnedup about his ears, two Mexican War pistols in his belt and a small carpetbag in his hand.
-- Without a word, two men fell outof the last rank and walked back to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was bloody, but which he handled as roughly as if it had no more feeling in it than the file.
-- Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds, but that there was a track upon the green and yellow paths, as if some one sometimes walked there, and that Estella was walking away from me even then.
-- It opened to the ground, and looked into a most miserable corner of the neglected garden, upon a rank ruin of cabbage-stalks, and one box-tree that had been clipped round long ago, like a pudding, and had a new growth at the top of it, out of shape and of a different color, as if that part of the pudding had stuck to the saucepan and got burnt.
-- Whereas I now found Barnard to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for Tom-cats.
-- The garden was too overgrown and rank for walking in with ease, and after we had made the round of it twice or thrice, we came out again into the brewery yard.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once upon a time the king held a great feast, and asked thither all her suitors; and they all sat in a row, ranged ac-cording to their rank kings, and princes, and dukes, and earls, and counts, and barons, and knights.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for meat, there ap-peared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty.
-- But being now a nardac of the highest rank in that empire, such offices were looked upon as be-low my dignity, and the emperor (to do him justice), never once mentioned them to me.
-- They have certain professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities, as well as inclinations.
-- Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank upon account of their knowledge in religious matters, and the sanctity of their lives; had never been compliers with the times, while they were common priests; or slav-ish prostitute chaplains to some nobleman, whose opinions they continued servilely to follow, after they were admitted into that assembly?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mounds where the grass was rank and high, and where brambles, dock-weed, and such-like vegetation, were confusedly heaped together, they always avoided; for dismal stories were told in that country of the old pits hidden beneath such indications.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I passed like a shadow in the midst of brushwood as lofty as the giant trees of California, and trod underfoot the moist and humid soil, reeking with a rank and varied vegetation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before it, a square court-yard where a shrub or two and a patch of grass were as rank (which is saying much) as the iron railings enclosing them were rusty; behind it, a jumble of roots.
-- said the poor little anxious Child of the Marshalsea, always calculating and planning for Tip, in the front rank of her charges.
-- The same rank Marshalsea flavour was to be recognised in his distinctly perceiving that she sacrificed her life to her father, and in his having no idea that she had done anything for himself.
-- Therefore, my dear, he ha he laid his parental injunctions upon her, to remember that she was a lady, who had now to conduct herself with hum a proper pride, and to preserve the rank of a lady; and consequently he requested her to abstain from doing what would occasion ha unpleasant and derogatory remarks.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.
-- 'My lady,' as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at heart, but had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all the time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote his gentlemanly rank on board.
-- And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils.
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