beside是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 在…旁边， 在…附近； 和…相比，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The student exchanged greetings with the lodgers, and sat down beside Goriot.
-- Michonneau came noiselessly in, bowed to the rest of the party, and took her place beside the three women without saying a word.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
-- I I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
-- The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play and to produce sounds sweet-er than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.
-- Night was far advanced when I came to the halfway resting-place and seated myself beside the fountain.
-- The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, damn it, she was just so pallid and uninteresting and always the same, beside Scarlett's bright andchangeable charm.
-- Driving off, with Mammy beside him, each was a perfect picture of pouting African disapproval.
-- Mammystood beside the table, watching every forkful that traveled from plate to mouth, as though she intended to force thefood down Ellen's throat should she see signs of flagging.
-- Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her andclasping her hands upon it Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on theopposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less fromcontact with the hard floor.
-- It would never do to appear schoolgirlish beside Melanie's poised self.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
-- There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone.
-- With that, she pounced upon me, like an eagle on a lamb, and my face was squeezed into wooden bowls in sinks, and my head was put under taps of water-butts, and I was soaped, and kneaded, and towelled, and thumped, and harrowed, and rasped, until I really was quite beside myself.
-- So, I nodded, and then he nodded again, and made room on the settle beside him that I might sit down there.
-- But as I was used to sit beside Joe whenever I entered that place of resort, I said "No, thank you, sir," and fell into the space Joe made for me on the opposite settle.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two.
-- The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his de-spair he leapt down from the tower.
-- The peasant ate it, and lay down with his skin beside him, and the woman thought: 'He is tired and has gone to sleep.'
-- and sat down beside her and began loudly to weep over the misfortune.
-- Then he took her for his bride, and set her beside him on his horse, and rode away with her homewards.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was thus employed, the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face, and, beside the excessive smart, gave me much disturbance in my work.
-- There were six Spanish pieces of four pistoles each, beside twenty or thirty smaller coins.
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