closely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 紧密地， 接近地，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shell had been so thin, so devoid of excrescence, and so closely drawn over the accommodation granted, that the grim character of what was beneath showed through it, as the shape of a body is visible under a winding-sheet.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So far, Eugene had only been in the ballroom on the ground floor of the Hotel Beauseant; the fete had followed so closely on the invitation, that he had not had time to call on his cousin, and had therefore never seen Mme.
-- A son-in-law is the man for whom we bring up, you and I, a dear little one, bound to us very closely in innumerable ways; for seventeen years she will be the joy of her family, its 'white soul,' as Lamartine says, and suddenly she will become its scourge.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with theirgreat trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
-- He was followed closely by Jack, a black little boy often, hastily buttoning a white linen jacket with one hand and bearing in the other a fly-swisher, made of thin strips ofnewspaper tied to a reed longer than he was.
-- Widowhood had crowded closely on the heels of marriage but, toher dismay, motherhood soon followed.
-- All the way across the floor, a man, newly come andstanding in the doorway, saw them, started in recognition and watched closely the slanting eyes in the sulky, rebelliousface.
-- His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared withthe dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- interrupted Biddy, looking closely at the leaf in her hand.
-- It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit, that whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time and walked an immense distance, it perceptibly came from a closely contiguous wall.
-- As he could hear nothing but indistinct sounds of one deep rough voice (this was while my mind was so busy), he even at last began to doubt whether I was there, when suddenly I cried out loudly, and he answered the cries, and rushed in, closely followed by the other two.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
-- Yonder, among the trees,' he added, having lifted up his eyes and looked about; for he had watched her closely until now; 'is your brother himself; no doubt, just come down.
-- All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have closely examined the inhabitants of this region; I have carefully studied the soil, and I beg to tell you emphatically, my dear Harry, there will be no eruption at present."
-- The fall of the electric globe has turned all the iron on board into loadstones--the instruments, the tools, the arms are clanging together with awful and horrible noise; the nails of my heavy boots adhere closely to the plate of iron incrustated in the wood.
-- "Look closely at it," he continued; "these jagged edges were never made by the resistance of human blood and bone.
-- He closely examined the different strata one above the other, in order to recognize his situation by geological theory.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Ham-mond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewrit-er, 'is that there is no point to it.
-- They hated her admitting she had attended so closely to such talk.
-- Really, if you looked closely at Clifford, he was a buffoon, and a buffoon is more humiliating than a bound-er.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He crossed by St Paul's and went down, at a long angle, almost to the water's edge, through some of the crooked and descending streets which lie (and lay more crookedly and closely then) between the river and Cheapside.
-- The more practical of its inmates abided by the tradition of a murder; the gentler and more imaginative inhabitants, including the whole of the tender sex, were loyal to the legend of a young lady of former times closely imprisoned in her chamber by a cruel father for remaining true to her own true love, and refusing to marry the suitor he chose for her.
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