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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan clasped her closely to his breast for an instant, and then turned away, while Robert flung his arms round Mary's neck.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's impossible to forget,' turning his hands over and over and looking closely at them, 'that hem! that in such a life as mine, I am unfortunately dependent on these men for something every hour in the day.'
-- His greed at dinner, too, was closely in keeping with the greed of Monsieur Rigaud at breakfast.
-- They looked very closely at one another.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little girl was very sincere in all this, for being left alone outside the safe home nest, she felt the need of some kind hand to hold by so sorely that she instinctively turned to the strong and tender Friend, whose fatherly love most closely surrounds His little children.
-- She did not re-buke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
-- This cross was doing much for both father and mother, for one love and sorrow bound them closely together.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
-- Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.
-- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
-- So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
-- That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time, the two boys followed him closely about: getting out of his sight, so nimbly, every time he turned round, that it was impossible to follow their motions.
-- 'And I'm afraid, you see,' added the Jew, speaking as if he had not noticed the interruption; and regarding the other closely as he did so,--'I'm afraid that, if the game was up with us, it might be up with a good many more, and that it would come out rather worse for you than it would for me, my dear.'
-- The girl burst into a laugh; drew her shawl more closely round her; and they walked away.
-- There appeared to be nobody stirring in that quarter of the town; the windows of the houses were all closely shut; and the streets through which they passed, were noiseless and empty.
-- He opened the closet, counted the teaspoons, weighed the sugar-tongs, closely inspected a silver milk-pot to ascertain that it was of the genuine metal, and, having satisfied his curiosity on these points, put on his cocked hat corner-wise, and danced with much gravity four distinct times round the table.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth soon saw that she was herself closely watched by Miss Bingley, and that she could not speak a word, es-pecially to Miss Darcy, without calling her attention.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She caught every syllable with panting eagerness; her hand, unknowingly to herself, closely pressed her sister's, and tears covered her cheeks.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the great city, bound more closely by these very trains which came up daily.
-- He had Carrie's arm in his, and held it closely as he explained.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio looked closely for a few minutes and then gave a sharp cry: "It's my father!It's my father!"
-- He looked at him closely and after turning him over and over, he said at last: "I understand.
-- In fact the wagon was so closely packed with boys of all ages that it looked like a box of sardines.
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