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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About this hour the snow abated: ten flakes fell where twenty had fallen, then one had the room of ten.
-- Among these heavy yeomen a feminine figure glided, the single one of her sex that the room contained.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which looks out upon the street through the two barred windows already mentioned.
-- The first room exhales an odor for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the _odeur de pension_.
-- Yet, in spite of these stale horrors, the sitting- room is as charming and as delicately perfumed as a boudoir, when compared with the adjoining dining-room.
-- A moment later the widow shows her face; she is tricked out in a net cap attached to a false front set on awry, and shuffles into the room in her slipshod fashion.
-- She is an oldish woman, with a bloated countenance, and a nose like a parrot's beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouching figure are in keeping with the room that reeks of misfortune, where hope is reduced to speculate for the meanest stakes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.
-- Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
-- He had also changed my apartment, for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory.
-- At first I attempted to prevent her; but she persisted, and entering the room where it lay, hastily examined the neck of the victim, and clasping her hands exclaimed, 'O God!I have murdered my darling child!'
-- 79 I motioned him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett could not imagine her mother's handswithout her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life wasto remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the housesuperintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.
-- Scarlett, whose room lay across the hall from her mother's, knew from babyhood the soft sound of scurrying bareblack feet on the hardwood floor in the hours of dawn, the urgent tappings on her mother's door, and the muffled,frightened negro voices that whispered of sickness and birth and death in the long row of whitewashed cabins in thequarters.
-- Looking outthe window, Scarlett saw Pork, who had left the room a moment before, holding high a flaring pine knot, whileindistinguishable figures descended from a wagon.
-- I gives you a good night," said Dilcey and, turning, left the room with her child, Pork dancingattendance.
-- Her mind was as if a cyclone had gone through it, and it seemed strange that the dining room where they satshould be so placid, so unchanged from what it had always been.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rented a small cottage, and Mr. Wopsle had the room upstairs, where we students used to overhear him reading aloud in a most dignified and terrific manner, and occasionally bumping on the ceiling.
-- God bless the poor little child,' I said to your sister, 'there's room for him at the forge!'"
-- It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
-- For a moment, with the fear of my sister's working me before my eyes, I had a desperate idea of starting round the room in the assumed character of Mr. Pumblechook's chaise-cart.
-- It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.
-- Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, 'Husband, there is not near room enough for us in this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to 50 Grimms' Fairy Taleslive in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.'
扩展阅读：