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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mules went cautiously along, keeping their heads near the ground, as if scenting the track.
-- This was near enough to observe them distinctly.
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：
-- It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeo-man who held lands near the Baskerville estate.
-- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roys-terers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.
-- 'The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together.
-- My cab is out of Shipley's Yard, near Waterloo Station.'
-- We fol-lowed their cab until it pulled up somewhere near here.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II eneral Epanchin lived in his own house near the Lit-Gaynaya.
-- The general never regretted his early mar-riage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her.
-- What nonsense it is!You would not let her come near your daughters, says Nina Al-exandrovna.
-- Here we are, now; sit down, prince, near the fire and talk to us.
-- There was a waterfall near us, such a lovely thin streak of water, like a thread but white and moving.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
-- And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships.
-- They backed their chariots toward the ranks, got out of them, and put off their armour, laying it down upon the ground; and the hosts were near to one another with a little space between them.
-- They stood near one another on the measured ground, brandishing their spears, and each furious against the other.
-- He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow-head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half-circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER VII THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGER The stranger went into the little parlour of the "Coach and Horses" about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near midday, the blinds down, the door shut, and none, after Hall's repulse, venturing near him.
-- And you've pretty near broken my toe.
-- It was ten days after and indeed only when the Burdock story was already old that the mariner collated these facts and began to understand how near he had been to the wonderful Invisible Man.
-- Dr. Kemp's scientific pursuits have made him a very observant man, and as he recrossed the hall, he noticed a dark spot on the linoleum near the mat at the foot of the stairs.
-- Then he distinctly heard a movement across the room, near the wash-hand stand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was a very near thing, indeed.
-- However, I was glad to avert what was uncommonly near a scuffle, even at the price of the captain's drunken ill-will.
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