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：
-- The six men commenced their explorations, keeping constantly to the line they had made in their descent, examining closely every fissure, and going into the very depths of the abysses, choked up though they partly were with fragments of the plateau; and more than one came out again with garments torn to rags, and feet and hands bleeding.
-- The flames sometimes rose to a prodigious height, and seemed almost lost in the atmosphere, and sometimes, beaten down by the hurricane, closely enveloped the OMBU like a robe of Nessus.
-- Glenarvan, by the aid of Paganel's telescope, closely observed the movements of the yacht.
-- The learned geographer kept himself closely shut up.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which jutted out between two keen, gray eyes, set closely together and spar-kling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.
-- 'Well, it was evident from what we have heard that Baskerville has been very closely shadowed by someone since he has been in town.
-- Even Baskerville fell silent and pulled his overcoat more closely around him.
-- Another day two at the most and I have my case complete, but until then guard your charge as closely as ever a fond mother watched her ailing child.
-- It was a cunning device, for, apart from the chance of driving your victim to his death, what peasant would ven-ture to inquire too closely into such a creature should he get sight of it, as many have done, upon the moor?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an entirely new and hitherto unknown being who now sat and laughed at him, and informed him to his face that she had never had the faintest feeling for him of any kind, except loathing and contempt contempt which had followed closely upon her sensations of surprise and bewilderment after her first acquaintance with him.
-- It is not for money only, prince, that I am rushing into this affair,' he contin-ued, hardly master of his words, so closely had his vanity been touched.
-- She merely looked closely at Evgenie for a minute, curious perhaps as to whether civil or mili-tary clothes became him best, then turned away and paid no more attention to him or his costume.
-- I have made up my mind to speak to you about a most important matter which closely concerns yourself.
-- We might manage it with the help of Nina Alexandrovna, so that he might be closely watched in his own house.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horse-hair crests on their gleaming helmets touched one another as they nodded forward, so closely serried were they; the spears they brandished in their strong hands were inter-laced, and their hearts were set on battle.
-- The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thunder-ing down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further even so eas-ily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely ser-ried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground; thereon he shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset.'
-- With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and they serried their companies yet more closely when they heard the of their king.
-- As the stones which a builder sets in the wall of some high house which is to give shel-ter from the winds even so closely were the helmets and bossed shields set against one another.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after the stranger had gone to bed, which he did about half-past nine, Mr. Hall went very aggressively into the parlour and looked very hard at his wife's furniture, just to show that the stranger wasn't master there, and scrutinised closely and a little contemptuously a sheet of mathematical computations the stranger had left.
-- When retiring for the night he instructed Mrs. Hall to look very closely at the stranger's luggage when it came next day.
-- Gripping the poker firmly, he rushed into the room, closely followed by Mrs. Bunting.
-- Several other of the men folks had now entered the room, so that it was closely crowded.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began to question me closely about Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street.
-- They were talking, or at least one of the men was talking to the other two, and all three had been too closely interest-ed to heed the rustling of my approach.
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