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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only light near us was a lantern at the wheel.
-- The black-faced cripple was glaring at me as fixedly in the bows near the puma.
-- The three big fellows spoke to one another in odd guttural tones, and the man who had waited for us on the beach began chattering to them excitedly a foreign language, as I fancied as they laid hands on some bales piled near the stern.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
-- I came very near to falling on my last hunt very near indeed and the noise of my slipping, for my tail was not tight wrapped around the tree, waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names.'
-- It was near Rann's bedtime, but he had ranged all over the jungle looking for the Bear and had missed him in the thick foliage.
-- When Mowgli left the wolf's cave after the fight with the Pack at the Council Rock, he went down to the plowed lands where the villag-ers lived, but he would not stop there because it was too near to the jungle, and he knew that he had made at least one bad enemy at the Council.
-- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grass-hoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
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：
-- There are fashionable and well-attended wa-tering-places at and near the spring where Hawkeye halted to drink, and roads traverse the forests where he and his friends were compelled to journey without even a path.
-- Near its southern termina-tion, it received the contributions of another lake, whose waters were so limpid as to have been exclusively selected by the Jesuit missionaries to perform the typical purifica-tion of baptism, and to obtain for it the title of lake 'du Saint Sacrement.'
-- Happily, I may say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself; for though the times may call for some slight changes, yet does this ver-sion which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness, and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth, as near as may be, to the great work of the inspired writer.
-- 'Uncas is here,' said another voice, in the same soft, gut-tural tones, near his elbow; 'who speaks to Uncas?'
-- 'Twas done with Indian skill,' said the scout laughing in-wardly, but with vast satisfaction; 'and 'twas a pretty sight to behold!Though an arrow is a near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefore], been the scene of marauding and infested with refugees, cow-boys, and all kinds of border chivalry.
-- No signs of life oc-curred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bull-frog from a neighboring marsh, as if sleeping uncomfortably and turn-ing suddenly in his bed.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lived near Victoria Station, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary.
-- He laughed so uproariously that people sitting near us looked round, and some of them began to laugh too.
-- His wife was seated near the stove at her sewing, and she rose as I came in.
-- Strickland would not go near them, not from any affectation of stoicism, for I found him seated on a three-legged stool when I went into the studio one day and he was alone, but because he did not like them.
-- It would not surprise you if, as you came near seeking for an opening in the reef, it vanished suddenly from your view, and nothing met your gaze but the blue loneliness of the Pacific.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself, fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond.
-- From time to time the castaways stopped and shouted, then listened for some response from the ocean, for they thought that if the engineer had landed, and they had been near to the place, they would have heard the barking of the dog Top, even should Harding himself have been unable to give any sign of existence.
-- On the sand, among the rocks, near the river's bank, they both searched carefully, but in vain.
-- This done, Pencroft, passing among the grass and concealing himself skillfully, placed the end of his lines armed with hooks near the grouse nests; then he returned, took the other ends and hid with Herbert behind a large tree.
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