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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Today, dressed in dull black silk over unfashionably narrow hoops, she still looked as though in her habit, for thedress was as severely tailored as her riding costume and the small black hat with Ha long black plume perched overone warm, twinkling, brown eye was a replica of the battered old hat she used for hunting.
-- Her face was paper white and her narrow eyes blazing like emeralds.
-- The sidewalks were crowded with men in uniform, bearing the insignia of all ranks and allservice branches; the narrow street was jammed with vehicles carriages, buggies, ambulances, covered army wagonswith profane drivers swearing as the mules struggled through the ruts; gray-clad couriers dashed spattering through thestreets from one headquarters to another, bearing orders and telegraphic dispatches; convalescents limped about oncrutches, usually with a solicitous lady at either elbow; bugle and drum and barked orders sounded from the drill fieldswhere the recruits were being turned into soldiers; and with her heart in her throat, Scarlett had her first sight ofYankee uniforms, as Uncle Peter pointed with his whip to a detachment of dejected-looking bluecoats beingshepherded toward the depot by a squad of Confederates with fixed bayonets, to entrain for the prison camp.
-- There was something exciting about this town with its narrow muddy streets, lying among rolling red hills,something raw and crude that appealed to the rawness and crudeness underlying the fine veneer that Ellen and Mammyhad given her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was coming round a narrow corner.
-- asked Biddy, stopping in the narrow garden walk, and looking at me under the stars with a clear and honest eye.
-- Pursuing the narrow intricacies of the streets which at that time tended westward near the Middlesex shore of the river, my readiest access to the Temple was close by the river-side, through Whitefriars.
-- It was a fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from the river had room to turn itself round; and there were two or three trees in it, and there was the stump of a ruined windmill, and there was the Old Green Copper Rope-walk,--whose long and narrow vista I could trace in the moonlight, along a series of wooden frames set in the ground, that looked like superannuated haymaking-rakes which had grown old and lost most of their teeth.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she roved about by herself, and looked at all the rooms and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which there was a narrow staircase ending with a little door.
-- Presently she came to the top of a hill, down the side of which there was a road so narrow that the cart wheels al-ways chafed the trees on each side as they passed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound appren-tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years.
-- A strange effect of narrow principles and views!that a prince possessed of every quality which procures venera-tion, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unneces-sary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people!Neither do I say this, with the least intention to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character, I am sensible, will, on this account, be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader: but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, by not having hitherto reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done.
-- He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
-- I went into another room, where the walls and ceiling were all hung round with cobwebs, except a narrow passage for the artist to go in and out.
-- We landed at a small port-town called Xamoschi, situated on the south-east part of Japan; the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into along arm of the sea, upon the north-west part of which, Yedo, the metropolis, stands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, the boys and girls sat on the face of the inclined plane in two compact bodies, divided up the centre by a narrow interval; and Sissy, being at the corner of a row on the sunny side, came in for the beginning of a sunbeam, of which Bitzer, being at the corner of a row on the other side, a few rows in advance, caught the end.
-- Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and very narrow strips of printed bill announced, was then inaugurating the entertainments with her graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act.
-- He said, in what he meant for a reassuring tone, as they turned down a narrow road, 'And this is Pod's End; is it, Jupe?'
-- In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man's purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called 'the Hands,' a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
-- It was in one of the many small streets for which the favourite undertaker (who turned a handsome sum out of the one poor ghastly pomp of the neighbourhood) kept a black ladder, in order that those who had done their daily groping up and down the narrow stairs might slide out of this working world by the windows.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first instance we crossed some narrow streets, where we met numerous groups of galley slaves, with particolored trousers, grey and yellow, working under the orders and the sticks of severe taskmasters, and finally reached the Vor-Frelser's-Kirk.
-- In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty sort of duck, builds its nest amid the rocks of the fjords--the name given to all narrow gulfs in Scandinavian countries--with which every part of the island is indented.
-- Here the horses were allowed to take some rest and refreshment, then following a narrow strip of shore between high rocks and the sea, they took us without further halt to the Aoalkirkja of Brantar, and after another mile to Saurboer Annexia, a chapel of ease, situated on the southern bank of the Hvalfjord.
-- He calmly led us by narrow paths where two persons could by no possibility walk abreast.
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