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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were in the centre of four cross paths --somber and narrow tunnels.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was at his ease in the narrow 'great world', that is, landed aristocracy society, but he was shy and ner-vous of all that other big world which consists of the vast hordes of the middle and lower classes, and foreigners.
-- The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.
-- As for Hammond, he's got a property instinct, so naturally the straight road and the narrow gate are right for him.
-- And then she noticed a narrow track between young fir-trees, a track that seemed to lead nowhere.
-- He walked just before her in the narrow path, swinging the hurricane lamp low, revealing the wet grass, the black shiny tree-roots like snakes, wan flowers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing, now the mouldy hall of some obsolete Worshipful Company, now the illuminated windows of a Congregationless Church that seemed to be waiting for some adventurous Belzoni to dig it out and discover its history; passing silent warehouses and wharves, and here and there a narrow alley leading to the river, where a wretched little bill, FOUND DROWNED, was weeping on the wet wall; he came at last to the house he sought.
-- In one corner of the hall, behind the house-door, there was a little waiting-room, like a well-shaft, with a long narrow window in it as if it had been ripped up.
-- It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top.
-- At what period of her early life the little creature began to perceive that it was not the habit of all the world to live locked up in narrow yards surrounded by high walls with spikes at the top, would be a difficult question to settle.
-- Wherever he went, this foredoomed Tip appeared to take the prison walls with him, and to set them up in such trade or calling; and to prowl about within their narrow limits in the old slip-shod, purposeless, down-at-heel way; until the real immovable Marshalsea walls asserted their fascination over him, and brought him back.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies.
-- To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.
-- Jo liked the prospect and was eager to be gone, for the home nest was growing too narrow for her restless nature and adventurous spirit.
-- The river and the hills are delicious, and these glimpses of the narrow cross streets are my delight.
-- Never mind what John said, or what a very narrow es-cape the little bonnet had from utter ruin.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
-- "It feels like going down into one's tomb," he would mutter to himself "for an old captain like me to be descending this narrow scuttle, to go to my grave-dug berth."
-- For, before we proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at both ends; fast to Queequeg's broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow leather one.
-- But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one end, instead of one side.
-- The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.
-- They walked on, for some time, through the most crowded and densely inhabited part of the town; and then, striking down a narrow street more dirty and miserable than any they had yet passed through, paused to look for the house which was the object of their search.
-- The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours.
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