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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had heard wondrous reports from time to time by dwellers in Weatherbury, who had by chance sojourned awhile in Casterbridge, near the barracks, of this strange and glorious performance, the sword-exercise.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer's cat appears, announcing the near approach of his mistress, and jumps upon the sideboards to sniff at the milk in the bowls, each protected by a plate, while he purrs his morning greeting to the world.
-- Couture's house; and the latter, who was a near relation, had taken charge of the little orphan.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.
-- I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near pros-pect of my undertaking.
-- As soon as he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blankets and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen stove.
-- I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Near the house, Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of theporch.
-- He tossed the reins of his horse to a small pickaninny standing near and started up the steps.
-- It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near bymade Gerald prick up his ears.
-- Gradually the plantation widened out, as Gerald bought more acres lying near him, and in time the whitehouse became a reality instead of a dream.
-- The Munroe girls were concealing their chagrin at the defection ofthe swarthy Fontaine boys, but they were annoyed at the way Tony and Alex stood about the circle, jockeying for aposition near Scarlett should any of the others arise from their places.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,--like an unhooped cask upon a pole,--an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.
-- Making my way along here with all despatch, I had just crossed a ditch which I knew to be very near the Battery, and had just scrambled up the mound beyond the ditch, when I saw the man sitting before me.
-- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!"
-- The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.
-- She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on,--the other was on the table near her hand,--her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day they went to walk in the wood, that they might be alone; and Jorindel said, 'We must take care that we don't go too near to the fairy's castle.'
-- Many a time did he walk round and round as near to the hated castle as he dared go, but all in vain; he heard or saw nothing of Jorinda.
-- So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived.
-- 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.'
-- He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water's brink, and said: 'O man of the sea!
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
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