margin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (页边) 空白; 边缘; (时间, 金钱) 多余，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：
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
-- Ayrton removed the hobbles from the bullock and Mulrady from the horse, and they began to return to the encampment, following the winding margin of the river.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mont-gomery stood panting at the margin of the water.
-- said I, with a break in my voice; and they came back, hurrying and fearful, to the margin of the water, leav-ing long wakes of black in the silver.
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：
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark cur-rent with a deeper hue.
-- They complied without hesitation, though many a fearful and anxious glance was thrown behind them, toward the thickening gloom, which now lay like a dark barrier along the margin of the stream.
-- Immovable as that rock, of which each appeared to form a part, they lay, with their eyes roving, without intermission, along the dark margin of trees, that bounded the adjacent shores of the narrow stream.
-- As they held their silent way along the margin of the pond, again Heyward and the scout stole furtive glances at its appalling dreariness.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen and towering.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt being supremelyindifferent to Mrs. Crupp's opinion and everybody else's, andrather favouring than discouraging the idea, Mrs. Crupp, of latethe bold, became within a few days so faint-hearted, that ratherthan encounter my aunt upon the staircase, she would endeavourto hide her portly form behind doors- leaving visible, however, awide margin of flannel petticoat- or would shrink into darkcorners.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George, the elder, exhibited an ebony-tipped nose, surrounded by a narrow margin of pink flesh, and a coat marked in random splotches approximating in colour to white and slaty grey; but the grey, after years of sun and rain, had been scorched and washed out of the more prominent locks, leaving them of a reddish-brown, as if the blue component of the grey had faded, like the indigo from the same kind of colour in Turner's pictures.
-- By the outer margin of the Pit was an oval pond, and over it hung the attenuated skeleton of a chrome-yellow moon which had only a few days to last the morning star dogging her on the left hand.
-- There was a wide margin of grass along here, and Gabriel's footsteps were deadened by its softness, even at this indurating period of the year.
-- The grass about the margin at this season was a sight to remember long in a minor sort of way.
-- Above the dark margin of the earth appeared foreshores and promontories of coppery cloud, bounding a green and pellucid expanse in the western sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our punch was cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin the bower was raised.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mighty superstructure of rock which rose above to an inconceivable height left only a narrow opening--but where we stood, there was a large margin of strand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow margin had not been essential to the blood of the Barnacles, this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among, let us say, ten thousand houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of the money.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed.
-- I mention this circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves had been purposely locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the herd had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its stopping; or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way innocent and inexperienced; however it may have been, these smaller whales now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin of the lake evinced a wondrous fearlessness and confidence, or else a still becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel at.
-- First, the whales forming the margin of our lake began to crowd a little, and tumble against each other, as if lifted by half spent billows from afar; then the lake itself began faintly to heave and swell; the submarine bridal-chambers and nurseries vanished; in more and more contracting orbits the whales in the more central circles began to swim in thickening clusters.
-- Moreover, as if perceiving at last that if he should give undiluted conscientious advice to Pip, he would be leaving him too wide a margin to jump in for the future; Stubb suddenly dropped all advice, and concluded with a peremptory command, "Stick to the boat, Pip, or by the Lord, I won't pick you up if you jump; mind that.
-- So suddenly seen in the blue plain of the sea, and relieved against the still bluer margin of the sky, the spray that he raised, for the moment, intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier; and stood there gradually fading and fading away from its first sparkling intensity, to the dim mistiness of an advancing shower in a vale.
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