narrow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 狭窄的， 狭的， 狭隘的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He trotted across the room to show a nest of narrow drawers filled with scientific blue-prints.
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：
-- The staircase was steep, narrow and all sloppy with dirty water.
-- Mistrust-fully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow 'cabin.'
-- 'Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain stand-ing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once!Only to live, to live and live!Life, whatever it may be!芒聙娄 How true it is!Good God, how true!Man is a vile creature!芒聙娄 And vile is he who calls him vile for that,' he added a moment later.
-- Having found in the corner of the courtyard the entrance to the dark and narrow staircase, he mounted to the second floor and came out into a gallery that ran round the whole second storey over the yard.
-- He walked for some time through a long narrow corridor without finding anyone and was just going to call out, when suddenly in a dark corner between an old cupboard and the door he caught sight of a strange object which seemed to be alive.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I putmy hand in his, wondering who he was, and we walked away to ashop in a narrow street, on which was written, OMER, DRAPER,TAILOR, HABERDASHER, FUNERAL FURNISHER, &C. It was aclose and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made andunmade, including one window full of beaver-hats and bonnets.
-- It wasdown in Blackfriars, Modern improvements have altered the place;but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curvingdown hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where peopletook boat.
-- At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over theroad; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out stillfarther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too,so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying tosee who was passing on the narrow pavement below.
-- 211It so happened that this chair was opposite a narrow passage,which ended in the little circular room where I had seen UriahHeep's pale face looking out of window.
-- The gentleman spoken of was a gentleman with avery unpromising squint, and a prominent chin, who had a tallwhite hat on with a narrow flat brim, and whose close-fitting drabtrousers seemed to button all the way up outside his legs from his 268boots to his hips.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public!A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid!the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
-- And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world 104 Emmaas appears at first; for a very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.
-- Anxious to separate herself from them as far as she could, she soon afterwards took possession of a narrow footpath, a little raised on one side of the lane, leaving them together in the main road.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- George, the elder, exhibited an ebony-tipped nose, surrounded by a narrow margin of pink flesh, and a coat marked in random splotches approximating in colour to white and slaty grey; but the grey, after years of sun and rain, had been scorched and washed out of the more prominent locks, leaving them of a reddish-brown, as if the blue component of the grey had faded, like the indigo from the same kind of colour in Turner's pictures.
-- The narrow opening left, which was immediately over the brow of the pit, was protected by a rough railing.
-- Bathsheba too had her sample-bags, and by degrees adopted the professional pour into the hand holding up the grains in her narrow palm for inspection, in perfect Casterbridge manner.
-- "We had a narrow escape!"
-- Throughout the length of this narrow and irksome inclined plane not a sign of life was visible on this garish afternoon.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like all narrow natures, Mme.
-- For those narrow souls, or for careless youth, the misery in Father Goriot's withered face and its dull apathy were 莽卢卢14 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 quite incompatible with wealth or any sort of intelligence.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollec- 33tions of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
-- My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed, 'Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, al-low me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red colorof her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones, and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end abovethick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
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