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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps even he was near his master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no reason, however, why I should refrain from seeing the person who had inconsiderately sent her to so great a distance by night and alone, and as it was not improbable that if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity, I avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate, and thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were.
-- 'You must be tired, sir,' said he as he placed a chair near the fire, 'how can I thank you?'
-- Mrs Jiniwin made a faint demonstration of rebellion by sitting down in a chair near the door and folding her arms as if in a resolute determination to do nothing.
-- 'I'll beat you to a pulp, you dogs,' said Quilp, vainly endeavoring to get near either of them for a parting blow.
-- Near the door sat Miss Sophy, still fluttered and confused by the attentions of Mr Cheggs, and by her side Richard Swiveller lingered for a moment to exchange a few parting words.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing by a food store, in front of which some pigeons were picking grain, she came near striking with her foot a dove-colored bird.
-- The prosecutor, who entered with the judges, also hastily walked to his place near the window, his portfolio still under his arm, and waving his hand he began to read the papers in the case, utilizing every moment to prepare himself.
-- "Come nearer, please," said the priest, touching with his swollen hand the cross on his breast, and waiting until all the jury were near him.
-- Nekhludoff walked into the jury-room and took a seat near the window.
-- Ordinarily he lived on the estate of his mother, near Moskow, with his mother and sister.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it caught my eye that the corner of the marble table near me was fractured.
-- There were, perhaps, a couple of hundred people dining in the hall, and most of them, seated as near to me as they could come, were watching me with interest, their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating.
-- I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moonlit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness, even anger at the folly of leaving the machine having leaked away with my strength.
-- Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
-- "Well, one very hot morning my fourth, I think as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed, there happened this strange thing.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she added, as she smoothed his hair, and set him upon the table near the Queen.
-- There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, ' for it's all in some language I don't know,' she said to herself.
-- After a pause, Alice began, 'Well!They were both very unpleasant characters ' Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast.
-- But not a single bee has come near it yet.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here's luck," "A fair wind," and "Billy Bones his fancy," were very neatly and clearly executed on the forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch of a gallows and a man hanging from it done, as I thought, with great spirit.
-- On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for him, and the doctor was suddenly taken up with a case many miles away and was never near the house after my father's death.
-- So things passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone drawing slowly near along the road.
-- Boy, take his left hand by the wrist and bring it near to my right."
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