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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had come to a point where a narrow grassy path struck off from the road and wound away across the moor.
-- It is a long, dismal walk, the Yew Alley, between two high walls of clipped hedge, with a narrow band of grass upon either side.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a fine woman of the same age as her husband, with a slightly hooked nose, a high, narrow forehead, thick hair turning a little grey, and a sallow complexion.
-- As soon as the visitors had crossed the low dark hall, and entered the narrow reception-room, furnished with half a dozen cane chairs, and two small card-tables, Madame Terentieff, in the shrill tones habitual to her, continued her stream of invectives.
-- There was a narrow pierglass against the wall, and a chandelier adorned with lustres hung by a bronze chain from the ceiling.
-- As is often the case in Petersburg houses, it was narrow and very dark, and turned around a massive stone column.
-- She was as capricious as ever in the choice of her acquain-tances, and admitted few into her narrow circle.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lycurgus killed him, not in fair fight, but by entrapping him in a narrow way where his mace served him in no stead; for Lycurgus was too quick for him and speared him through the middle, so he fell to earth on his back.
-- Our horses therefore can-not get down into it, and would be of no use if they did; moreover it is a narrow place and we should come to harm.
-- Still, let bygones be bygones: no man may keep his anger for ever; I said I would not relent till battle and the cry of war had reached my own ships; nevertheless, now gird my armour about your shoulders, and lead the Myrmidons to battle, for the dark cloud of Trojans has burst furiously over our fleet; the Argives are driven back on to the beach, cooped within a narrow space, and the whole people of Troy has taken heart to sally out against them, be-cause they see not the visor of my helmet gleaming near them.
-- Fly after them at your utmost speed; I will hit on a plan for passing them in a narrow part of the way, and it shall not fail me.'
-- Presently Antilochus saw a narrow place where the road had sunk.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he fired, the man with the beard moved his hand in a horizontal curve, so that his shots radiated out into the narrow yard like spokes from a wheel.
-- Kemp led the way up the narrow staircase to the belvedere.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Montgomery steered us round and into a narrow little dock excavated in the beach.
-- STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the I ridge behind the house, scarcely heeding whither I went; passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight-stemmed trees beyond it, and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge, and descending to-wards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley.
-- The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoria.
-- Beyond, the rock opened again upon a gradual slope of sunlit greenery, and on either hand the light smote down through narrow ways into the central gloom.
-- The place was a narrow passage between high walls of lava, a crack in the knotted rock, and on either side interwoven heaps of sea-mat, palm-fans, and reeds leaning against the rock formed rough and impenetrably dark dens.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Father Wolf knew that the mouth of the cave was too narrow for a tiger to come in by.
-- The herd splashed through the pool he had just left, bellowing till the narrow cut rang.
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：
-- When they reached the spot where the Indian stood, pointing into the thicket that fringed the military road; a narrow and blind path, which might, with some little inconvenience, receive one person at a time, became visible.
-- As these, again, were surmounted by tall trees, which appeared to totter on the brows of the precipice, it gave the stream the appearance of running through a deep and narrow dell.
-- Then, holding the brand, he crossed a deep, narrow chasm in the rocks which ran at right angles with the passage they were in, but which, unlike that, was open to the heavens, and en-tered another cave, answering to the description of the first, in every essential particular.
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