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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This the white-haired man told me was to be my apart-ment; and the inner door, which 'for fear of accidents,' he said, he would lock on the other side, was my limit inward.
-- I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.
-- I wanted it was the one thing I wanted to find out the extreme limit of plasticity in a living shape.'
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：
-- 'I should be sorry to have the defense protracted in such a manner as to irritate my red friends there,' continued Mont-calm, glancing his eyes at the group of grave and attentive Indians, without attending to the other's questions; 'I find it difficult, even now, to limit them to the usages of war.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this place, to its extreme limit in the west, it only formed a sort of declivity, a thick mass of stones, earth, and sand, bound together by plants, bushes, and grass inclined at an angle of only forty-five degrees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever Kit came alone, and without the chaise, it always happened that Sampson Brass was reminded of some mission, calling Mr Swiveller, if not to Peckham Rye again, at all events to some pretty distant place from which he could not be expected to return for two or three hours, or in all probability a much longer period, as that gentleman was not, to say the truth, renowned for using great expedition on such occasions, but rather for protracting and spinning out the time to the very utmost limit of possibility.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If one permits himself to deal with people without having any love for them, as I did yesterday with my brother-in-law, there is no limit to the cruelty and brutality one is liable to display toward others, as I have seen to-day, and there is no limit to one's own suffering, as I have learned from all the experiences of my own life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thanks to the perfection of our apparatus, we were forty-five fathoms below the limit which nature seems to have imposed on man as to his submarine excursions.
-- At last, after walking two hours, we had attained a depth of about three hundred yards, that is to say, the extreme limit on which coral begins to form.
-- "Nothing, my friends; at least of that which passes the limit of truth to get to fable or legend.
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