remote是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 远的， 遥远的， 疏远的， 偏僻的， 细微的，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am distantly related to you, and this obscure and remote relationship is even now a perfect godsend to me.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
-- Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland and finish my work in soli-tude.
-- Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or ex-citements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations 260 Frankensteinof his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes looked at her but through her, past her as Ashley's had done, remote gray eyes looking on anotherworld.
-- But I do like you tremendously for the elasticity of your conscience, for the selfishness which you seldomtrouble to hide, and for the shrewd practicality in you which, I fear, you get from some not too remote Irish-peasantancestor."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember Mrs. Hubble as a little curly sharp-edged person in sky-blue, who held a conventionally juvenile position, because she had married Mr. Hubble,--I don't know at what remote period,--when she was much younger than he.
-- I hope one remote cause of its firing may have been my consciousness that if I had known his errand, I should have given him more encouragement.
-- The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation, than they had ever had before; so, the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden, seemed to call to me that the place was changed, and that Estella was gone out of it for ever.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had indeed heard and read enough of the dispositions of great princes and ministers, but never expected to have found such terrible effects of them, in so remote a coun-try, governed, as I thought, by very different maxims from those in Europe.
-- And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all man-kind.
-- I answered, as I had before determined, 'that I was a Dutch merchant, shipwrecked in a very remote country, whence I had trav-elled by sea and land to Luggnagg, and then took shipping for Japan; where I knew my countrymen often traded, and with some of these I hoped to get an opportunity of return-ing into Europe: I therefore most humbly entreated his royal favour, to give order that I should be conducted in safety to Nangasac.'
-- Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I at last 284 Gulliver's Travelsconcluded they must needs be magicians, who had thus metamorphosed themselves upon some design, and see-ing a stranger in the way, resolved to divert themselves with him; or, perhaps, were really amazed at the sight of a man so very different in habit, feature, and complexion, from those who might probably live in so remote a climate.
-- I was at first at a great loss for salt, but custom soon reconciled me to the want of it; and I am confident that the frequent use of salt among us is an effect of luxury, and was first -introduced only as a provocative to drink, except where it is necessary for preserving flesh in long voyages, or in places remote from great markets; for we observe no animal to be fond of it but man, and as to myself, when I left this country, it was a great while before I could endure the taste of it in 293anything that I ate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On one of the back benches, remote in the subdued light and the strangeness of the place, sat the villainous whelp, sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to call his son.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for Michaelis, he was perfect; exactly the same melancholic, attentive, aloof young fellow of the previous evening, millions of degrees remote from his hosts, but la-conically playing up to them to the required amount, and never coming forth to them for a moment.
-- The ladies were ladies, remote from him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose with the rest, and silently withdrew to a remote corner of the great room, where she sat herself on a couch in a window, seeming to watch the reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice.
-- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me.
-- Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant who was going to do it, or who appeared to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
-- The old man looked as if the remote high gallery windows, with their little strip of sky, might have been the point of his better fortunes, from which he had descended, until he had gradually sunk down below there to the bottom.
-- The shadow of a supposed act of injustice, which had hung over him since his father's death, was so vague and formless that it might be the result of a reality widely remote from his idea of it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For besides the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which the success of the voyage most depends.
-- Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.
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