room是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 房间， 室， 空间， 地方； 余地，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A room was engaged for the young woman, and Mr. Fogg, after seeing that she wanted for nothing, set out in search of her cousin Jeejeeh.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the central room of the three occupied by Doc Vickerson, facing on Main Street above the New York Clothing Bazaar.
-- This central room was at once business office, consultation-room, operating-theater, living-room, poker den, and warehouse for guns and fishing tackle.
-- The wild raggedness of the room was the soul and symbol of Doc Vickerson; it was more exciting than the flat-faced stack of shoe- boxes in the New York Bazaar: it was the lure to questioning and adventure for Martin Arrowsmith.
-- The room was full of heartiness and beer and Brumfit.
-- But also as an academic graduate, with a training in the basic sciences, he felt superior to his fellow medics, most of whom had but a high-school diploma, with perhaps one year in a ten- room Lutheran college among the cornfields.
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：
-- The little room into which the young man walked, with yellow paper on the walls, geraniums and muslin curtains in the windows, was brightly lighted up at that moment by the setting sun.
-- the old woman said severely, com-ing into the room and, as before, standing in front of him so as to look him straight in the face.
-- Their departure left the room quiet and rather empty.
-- There was another man in the room who looked somewhat like a retired government clerk.
-- 'Well,' the orator began again stolidly and with even in-creased dignity, after waiting for the laughter in the room to subside.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire inthe best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; andwhen they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, mymother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.
-- My mother was somuch worse that Peggotty, coming in with the tea-board andcandles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was,- as Miss Betseymight have done sooner if there had been light enough,conveyedher upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately des-patched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some dayspast secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a specialmessenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
-- I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but BetseyTrotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams andshadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled;and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the 19earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above theashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had neverbeen.
-- There is something of a doleful air about that room to me, forPeggotty has told me- I don't know when, but apparently ages ago-about my father's funeral, and the company having their blackcloaks put on.
-- 29We went to an hotel by the sea, where two gentlemen weresmoking cigars in a room by themselves.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is not this room rich in specimens of your landscapes and flowers; and has not Mrs. Weston some inimitable figure-pieces in her drawing-room, at Randalls?'
-- Dear me!When I look back to the first time I saw him!How little did I think! The two Abbots 92 Emmaand I ran into the front room and peeped through the blind when we heard he was going by, and Miss Nash came and scolded us away, and staid to look through herself; howev-er, she called me back presently, and let me look too, which was very good-natured.
-- Have you thought, my dear, where you shall put her and what room there will be for the children?'
-- 'Oh!yes she will have her own room, of course; the room she always has; and there is the nursery for the children, just as usual, you know.
-- The room they were taken into was the one he chiefly occupied, and looking forwards; behind it was another with which it immediately communi-cated; the door between them was open, and Emma passed into it with the housekeeper to receive her assistance in the most comfortable manner.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was room for a little pity, also for a very little exultation: the former at his position, the latter at her own.
-- The room inside was lighted only by the ruddy glow from the kiln mouth, which shone over the floor with the streaming horizontality of the setting sun, and threw upwards the shadows of all facial irregularities in those assembled around.
-- In the room from which the conversation proceeded Bathsheba and her servant-companion, Liddy Smallbury, were to be discovered sitting upon the floor, and sorting a complication of papers, books, bottles, and rubbish spread out thereon remnants from the household stores of the late occupier.
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