limit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 界限， 限度， 范围v. (to) 限制， 限定，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gania having once descended to abuse, and receiving no check, very soon knew no bounds or limit to his licence, as is often the way in such cases.
-- Of course it's all an ideal, and in the 'poor knight' that spirit reached the utmost limit of asceticism.
-- The devil will hold his empire over humanity until a limit of time which is still unknown.
-- 'Do you know there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?
-- That will be the limit of Ptitsin's for-tune, and, come what may, he will never have more than four houses.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come, really though," said the elder brother, with a frown on his handsome, clever face, "there's a limit to everything.
-- Vronsky glanced at Anna at the precise limit of time, so suggestive of steps having been taken that she should meet no one; but Anna appeared not to notice it.
-- But after that hour there passed another hour, two hours, three, the full five hours he had fixed as the furthest limit of his sufferings, and the position was still unchanged; and he was still bearing it because there was nothing to be done but bear it; every instant feeling that he had reached the utmost limits of his endurance, and that his heart would break with sympathy and pain.
-- The awful scream never paused, it became still more awful, and as though it had reached the utmost limit of terror, suddenly it ceased.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a magnificent future!Think, Martin"--Major Holabird discarded his dignity, sat astride a chair--"think of all you have ahead!If this work really pans out, there's no limit to the honors that'll come to you, you lucky young dog!
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no limit to his drinking powers, but he could abstain from drink altogether; he sometimes went too far in his pranks; but he could do without pranks altogether.
-- It was the furthest limit of self-abnega-tion, at least so he interpreted it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Omer,with a very complacent and amiable face, took several puffs insilence; and then said, resuming his first point'Accordingly, we'reobleeged, in ascertaining how Barkis goes on, to limit ourselves toEm'ly.
-- In whatever capacity you askafter my employer, I beg, without offence to you, to limit my replyto this- that whatever his state of health may be, his appearance isfoxy; not to say diabolical.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This climax of the series had been reached to-night on the aforesaid moor, and for the first time in the season its irregularities were forms without features; suggestive of anything, proclaiming nothing, and without more character than that of being the limit of something else the lowest layer of a firmament of snow.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the an-nihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded.
-- The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But that is the extreme limit allowed by science for the thickness of the earth's crust," I replied, referring to my geological studies.
-- "Listen to me, Uncle," I said, in a firm but temperate tone of voice, "there must be some limit to ambition here below.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strange!Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.
-- But ere that close limit was gained, and while yet all three boats were plain as the ship's three masts to his eye; the White Whale churning himself into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were, rushing among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the limit of her distress had been nearly reached, she was beckoned to by a man at one of the many desks within the near-by railing.
-- She reverted to the things which were best and saddest within the small limit of her experience.
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