confine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 限制; 禁闭，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We will confine ourselves for the present with your permis-sion to this very interesting document, which must have been put together and posted yesterday evening.
-- If he would confine his energies to this all would be well, but there are rumours that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next-of-kin, because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither did he confine himself to looks and gestures, for when she and her grandfather were walking on beside the aforesaid Short, and that little man was talking with his accustomed cheerfulness on a variety of indifferent subjects, Thomas Codlin testified his jealousy and distrust by following close at her heels, and occasionally admonishing her ankles with the legs of the theatre in a very abrupt and painful manner.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she was afraid that Vronsky might confine himself to simply flirting with her daughter.
-- Having no clear idea what they were talking about, he wanted to confine himself to generalities.
-- But now, since his marriage, when he had begun to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he experienced no delight at all at the thought of the work he was doing, he felt a complete conviction of its necessity, saw that it succeeded far better than in old days, and that it kept on growing more and more.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once more the savage yells burst out of the woods, and the leaden hail whistled above the heads of the besieged, as if to confine them to a place where they might become easy victims to the enterprise of the warrior who had mounted the tree.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not confine his official work to an hour a day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know as well as I do, that your cousin Maldon would bedragged at the heels of any number of wild horses- why should Iconfine myself to four!I won't confine myself to foureight, sixteen,two-and-thirty, rather than say anything calculated to overturn theDoctor's plans.'
-- Forbeing of an inquisitive disposition, and unable to confine herself(as her positive instructions were) to the pantry, she was constantlypeering in at us, and constantly imagining herself detected; inwhich belief, she several times retired upon the plates (with whichshe had carefully paved the floor), and did a great deal ofdestruction.
-- Miss Murdstone cast down her eyes, shook herhead as if protesting against this unseemly interruption, and withfrowning dignity resumed'Since I am to confine myself to facts, Iwill state them as dryly as I can.
-- I confine myself to throwing out theobservation, that, at the hour and place I have indicated, may befound such ruined vestiges as yet 'Remain, 'Of 'A 'Fallen Tower,'WILKINS MICAWBER 'P.S.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was weather which might fairly confine every body at home; and though she hoped and believed him to be really taking comfort in some society or other, it was very pleasant to have her father so well satisfied with his being all alone in his own house, too wise to stir out; and to hear him say to Mr. Knightley, whom no weather could keep entirely from them, 'Ah!Mr.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Will you confine your words to that one point? Shall I hear every word you say?"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer was wont to confine her attention to events, and did not go very deeply into the causes that brought them about; she likewise preferred to throw the blame of her own mistakes on other people, so she chose to consider that the honest vermicelli maker was responsible for her misfortune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a moun-tain-stream with a straw.
-- Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I began to reflect on the best means of securing him; and for this purpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a criminal judge in the town and told him that I had an ac-cusation to make, that I knew the destroyer of my family, and that I required him to exert his whole authority for the apprehension of the murderer.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '3d, The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.
-- His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very watchful indeed, my friends," replied Harding; "and I beg you to confine your hunting excursions to the neighborhood of Granite House."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Confine yourself to yours, and ask me no question.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My castle is very different from what I planned, but I would not alter it, though, like Jo, I don't relinquish all my artistic hopes, or confine myself to helping others fulfill their dreams of beauty.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had on her best, but there was comfort in the thought that if she must confine herself to a best, it was neat and fitting.
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