expand是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (使) 扩大, 展开; 膨胀，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heruvimov is going to bring out this work as a contribution to the woman question; I am trans-lating it; he will expand these two and a half signatures into six, we shall make up a gorgeous title half a page long and bring it out at half a rouble.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Inspired by this idea and the sentiments it awakened, sir, and feeling as a mutual friend that badgering, baiting, and bullying, was not the sort of thing calculated to expand the souls and promote the social harmony of the contending parties, I took upon myself to suggest a course which is the course to be adopted to the present occasion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I hope it is not at all unlikely that he may expand (as a clerk of your acquaintance has expanded) into a partner.
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：
-- For it won't expand any more."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Prodigiously interested, we walked along the wall of rock, examining the smallest fissures, which might finally expand into the much wished--for gully or shaft.
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 didn't expand or let himself go.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He remarked with his utmost politeness, that he must beg to protest against its being supposed, even by Mrs Merdle, the accomplished and graceful (to which compliment she bent herself), that such enterprises as Mr Merdle's, apart as they were from the puny undertakings of the rest of men, had any lower tendency than to enlarge and expand the genius in which they were conceived.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.
-- He is thus completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth.
-- As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains, accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain; even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
-- But it so happened, that those boats, without seeing Pip, suddenly spying whales close to them on one side, turned, and gave chase; and Stubb's boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent upon his fish, that Pip's ringed horizon began to expand around him miserably.
-- Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme!We expand to its bulk.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne restored to life, health, friends, and to her doting mother, was an idea to fill her heart with sensations of exquisite comfort, and expand it in fervent gratitude; but it led to no outward demonstrations of joy, no words, no smiles.
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