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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Clambering among these heaps of masonry, I found a narrow gallery, whose end and side windows were blocked by fallen masses of stone.
-- Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest.
-- I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance and, as his eyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn't take the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed figure after all.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.
-- We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.
-- All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.
-- Then he looked at me and nodded, as much as to say, "Here is a narrow corner," as, indeed, I thought it was.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- On the forecastle lay the perfection of a breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, and very narrow in the bore, the model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867.
-- And certainly it was possible that they might meet the narwhal in this narrow pass.
-- Its masts trembled down to their stepping holes, and the clouds of smoke could hardly find way out of the narrow funnels.
-- Hardly had the narrow panel closed upon me, when I was enveloped in darkness.
-- It must have been about three o'clock when we reached a narrow valley, between high perpendicular walls, situated about seventy-five fathoms deep.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His figure was narrow but nicely made.
-- It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water.
-- Shortlands looked across a sloping meadow that might be a park, because of the large, solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at the wooded hill that successfully hid the colliery valley beyond, but did not quite hide the rising smoke.
-- Ursula took her place at his side, they gave their tickets to the policeman, and passed in on to the grass, four abreast; the tall, hot, ruddy-dark man with his narrow boyish brow drawn with irritation, the fresh-faced, easy woman, perfectly collected though her hair was slipping on one side, then Gudrun, her eyes round and dark and staring, her full soft face impassive, almost sulky, so that she seemed to be backing away in antagonism even whilst she was advancing; and then Ursula, with the odd, brilliant, dazzled look on her face, that always came when she was in some false situation.
-- The hot narrow intimacy between man and wife was abhorrent.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.
-- I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when, ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which b elied, oddly, his apparent sense.
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