neighboring是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 邻近的， 相邻的，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：
-- They hoped then to find some practicable ridge that would allow of a passage to the neighboring peaks that were thrown together in an orographic maze, to which poor Paganel's genius would doubtless have found the clew.
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：
-- The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the fron-tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
-- A pouch and horn com-pleted his personal accouterments, though a rifle of great length**, which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all firearms, leaned against a neighboring sapling.
-- Happily, he soon succeeded in disarming his ad-versary, whose knife fell on the rock at their feet; and from this moment it became a fierce struggle who should cast the other over the dizzy height into a neighboring cavern of the falls.
-- A shout was at that moment heard, as if issuing from the center of the rock, an-nouncing that the neighboring cavern had at length been entered.
-- The whole party moved swiftly through the narrow path, toward the north, leaving the healing waters to mingle unheeded with the adjacent brooks and the bodies of the dead to fester on the neighboring mount, without the rites of sepulture; a fate but too common to the warriors of the woods to excite ei-ther commiseration or comment.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweet-est water, in a little well formed of a barrel; and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows.
-- Under this were hung flails, har- ness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
-- Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory- nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.
-- He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps the trees of the neighboring forest would supply them with eatable fruit.
-- But was it frequented, at least occasionally, by the natives of neighboring islands?
-- Since he was in doubt, it was best to take precautions against a possible descent of neighboring natives.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Deminsky was a neighboring village with very little land.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas.
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