near是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 近的， 接近的； 亲近的prep. 靠近ad. 接近，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother they had buried near the Monongahela--the girl herself had heaped with torn sods the grave beside the river of the beautiful name.
-- Near at hand, Martin could see wrinkles beside the hawk eyes.
-- In the midst of the tour, led by Dr. Stout and the umbrella-carrying secretary of the University, the plumpest and most educational of all the bankers stopped near Clif Clawson's dissecting-table, with his derby hat reverently held behind him, and into that hat Clif dropped a pancreas.
-- Oh, no; the bird that succeeds is the one that gets an office on a northeast corner, near a trolley car junction, with a 'phone number that'll be easy for patients to remember!Honest!He said so!I swear, when I graduate I believe I'll be a ship's doctor.
-- But week slipped into careless and robust week, and when he awoke in a stable, smelling the sweet hay and the horses and the lark-ringing prairie that crept near to the heart of these shanty towns, he cared only for the day's work, the day's hiking, westward toward the sunset.
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：
-- shouted the tavern-keeper who was again near them.
-- If possible, I would set-tle somewhere near you, for the most joyful piece of news, dear Rodya, I have kept for the end of my letter: know then, my dear boy, that we may, perhaps, be all together in a very short time and may embrace one another again after a sep-aration of almost three years!It is settled for certain that Dounia and I are to set off for Petersburg, exactly when I don't know, but very, very soon, possibly in a week.
-- The little town stood on a level flat as bare as the hand, not even a willow near it; only in the far distance, a copse lay, a dark blur on the very edge of the horizon.
-- Near the tavern the road became a dusty track, the dust of which was always black.
-- Near his grandmoth-84 Crime and Punishmenter's grave, which was marked by a stone, was the little grave of his younger brother who had died at six months old.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'David Copperfield from head to foot!Calls a house arookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds ontrust, because he sees the nests!'
-- What a high-backed pew!With a window near it, out ofwhich our house can be seen, and is seen many times during themorn-ing's service, by Peggotty, who likes to make herself as sureas she can that it's not being robbed, or is not in flames.
-- No suchthing came into my mind, or near it.
-- Tohear the wind getting up out at sea, to know that the fog wascreeping over the desolate flat outside, and to look at the fire andthink that there was no house near but this one, and this one a boat,was like enchantment.
-- Here was acoincidence!I immediately went into an explanation how I hadnever seen my own father; and how my mother and I had alwayslived by ourselves in the happiest state imaginable, and lived sothen, and always meant to live so; and how my father's grave wasin the churchyard near our house, and shaded by a tree, beneaththe boughs of which I had walked and heard the birds sing many apleasant morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, Kindled a flame I yet deplore, 96 Emma The hood-wink'd boy I called to aid, Though of his near approach afraid, So fatal to my suit before.
-- The name makes me think of poor Isabella; for she was very near being christened Catherine after her grandmama.
-- The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther, 'Ah!Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our sta-bility in good thoughts.
-- 'This would soon have led to something better, of course,' was her consoling reflection; 'any thing interests between those who love; and any thing will serve as introduction to what is near the heart.
-- The coming of her sister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation, and then in reality, it became henceforth her prime object of interest; and dur-ing the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected she did not herself expect that any thing be-yond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They passed near here."
-- Boldwood always carried with him a social atmosphere of his own, which everybody felt who came near him; and the talk, which Bathsheba's presence had somewhat suppressed, was now totally suspended.
-- Bathsheba's form, still in its original position, was now again distinct between their eyes and the light, which revealed that Boldwood had gone inside the room, and was sitting near her.
-- Would you have had me look at you, and tell my acquaintance that you are quite a common-place woman, to save you the embarrassment of being stared at if they come near you?
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