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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After sailing along these deserted shores, the DUNCAN went through a series of narrow passes, between forests of beech and ash and birch, and at length doubled Cape Froward, still bristling with the ice of the last winter.
-- Let us make a stride across the narrow strip of Chili, and over the Cordilleras of the Andes, and get into the heart of the Pampas.
-- They were in a narrow valley, one of those gorges called by the Indians "quebrads," and on reaching the end, a wall of porphyry rose perpendicularly before them, and barred further passage.
-- A stone stair led up to the door, the only opening; and narrow as this door was, the hurricane, and snow, and hail found their way in when the TEMPORALES were unchained in the mountains.
-- Soon they were treading the grassy slopes of the first ridges of the Sierra Tandil, and an hour afterward the village appeared in the depths of a narrow gorge, and above it towered the lofty battlements of Fort Independence.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slink-ing away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
-- Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the gray boulders.
-- Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by some strange perversion of terms, 'The Green': when the Dodger made a sudden stop; and, laying his finger on his lip, drew his companions back again, with the greatest caution and circumspection.
-- It was not until the two boys had scoured, with great rapidity, through a most intricate maze of narrow streets and courts, that they ventured to halt beneath a low and dark archway.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This furnished my thoughts with many very profitable reflections, and par-ticularly this one: How infinitely good that Providence is, which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him.
-- We had one dangerous place to pass, and our guide told us if there were more wolves in the country we should find them there; and this was a small plain, surrounded with woods on every side, and a long, narrow defile, or lane, which we were to pass to get through the wood, and then we should come to the village where we were to lodge.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden behind.
-- It was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.
-- About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow winding valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it.
-- "With dark narrow stairs and a kitchen that smokes, I suppose," said Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt the drag of a lean and narrow life.
-- Narrow board walks extended out, passing here a house, and there a store, at far intervals, eventually ending on the open prairie.
-- Thus was Carrie's name bandied about in the most frivolous and gay of places, and that also when the little toiler was bemoaning her narrow lot, which was almost inseparable from the early stages of this, her unfolding fate.
-- Her imagination trod a very narrow round, always winding up at points which concerned money, looks, clothes, or enjoyment.
-- There seems to be something in the chill breezes which scurry through the long, narrow thoroughfares productive of rueful thoughts.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went along a narrow place and got into a kind of room, all damp and sweaty and cold, and there we stopped.
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
-- It was as long as the hut, but narrow only about six foot wide.
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