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：
-- Heyward took with him a blazing knot, which threw a dim light through the narrow vista of their new apartment.
-- One arm of the river flowed through a deep, narrow ravine, which its current had worn in the soft rock, directly beneath his feet, forming an effectual de-fense, as he believed, against any danger from that quarter; the water, a few rods above them, plunging, glancing, and sweeping along in its most violent and broken manner.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dan-gled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked up narrow stairs, and on the landing found a sort of box, glassed in, within which were a desk and a couple of chairs.
-- Her plain face with its narrow lips was tight, her skin was stretched tightly over her bones, her smile was tight, her hair was tight, her clothes were tight, and the white drill she wore had all the effect of black bombazine.
-- I had a lively picture of Captain Nichols flying headlong down a narrow gangway before the uplifted foot of an angry mate, and, like a true Englishman, rejoicing in the spirit of the Mercantile Marine.
-- The Rue Bouterie is a narrow street of one-storeyed houses, each house consisting of but one room; they are like the booths in a crowded fair or the cages of animals in a circus.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between the islet and the coast there only remained a narrow channel which would no doubt be easy to cross.
-- Pencroft had remarked, several hundred feet from the place at which they landed, a narrow cutting, out of which he thought a river or stream might issue.
-- One narrow and winding opening at the side was kept, to lead out the smoke and to make the fire draw.
-- Large flat stones were placed on the ground at the opening of the narrow passage which had been kept.
-- The smoke went quite easily out at the narrow passage, the chimney drew, and an agreeable warmth was not long in being felt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daniel Quilp, who was not much affected by a bright morning save in so far as it spared him the trouble of carrying an umbrella, caused himself to be put ashore hard by the wharf, and proceeded thither through a narrow lane which, partaking of the amphibious character of its frequenters, had as much water as mud in its composition, and a very liberal supply of both.
-- Without relaxing his pace, or stopping to take breath, this mysterious individual dashed on through a great many alleys and narrow ways until he at length arrived in a square paved court, when he subsided into a walk, and making for a small house from the window of which a light was shining, lifted the latch of the door and passed in.
-- He pressed his finger on his lip, and drew the child along by narrow courts and winding ways, nor did he seem at ease until they had left it far behind, often casting a backward look towards it, murmuring that ruin and self-murder were crouching in every street, and would follow if they scented them; and that they could not fly too fast.
-- To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough.
-- Taking their way along it for a short distance, they came to a lane, so shaded by the trees on either hand that they met together over-head, and arched the narrow way.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gold iconostasis was aflame with innumerable candles, which surrounded a large one in the centre wound in a narrow strip of gilt paper.
-- But at the same moment she quickly turned and walked off with her customary light and agile step along the narrow mat of the corridor.
-- A long file of sleighs moved noiselessly in pairs at a gentle trot along the narrow fir-lined path of the forests, which were covered with a heavy layer of snowflakes.
-- The President, Nikitin, with a closely shaved, narrow face and steel-gray eyes; Wolf, with thin lips and small white hands, with which he was turning over the papers before him; then Skovorodnikoff, stout, massive and pock-marked, and a very learned jurist, and finally, B脙漏, the same partriarchal old man, who was the last to arrive.
-- "I am sorry, my dear Prince, but the grounds were insufficient," he said, shrugging his narrow shoulders; and, closing his eyes, he proceeded on his way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
-- Then, think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times, and how wide the interval between myself and these of the Golden Age!I was sensible of much which was unseen, and which contributed to my comfort; but save for a general impression of automatic organisation, I fear I can convey very little of the difference to your mind.
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