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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A considerable crowd visited her every day, and the DUNCAN was the one topic of interest and conversation, to the great vexation of the different captains in the port, among others of Captain Burton, in command of the SCOTIA, a magnificent steamer lying close beside her, and bound for Calcutta.
-- Who was the child beside during our descent of the Cordilleras?"
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Maybe she would have helped me, I'm so stupid,' said Beth, who stood beside him, listening eagerly.
-- Meg flew to rescue Amy, and Beth to pacify Jo, but Jo was quite beside herself, and with a parting box on her sister's ear, she rushed out of the room up to the old sofa in the gar-ret, and finished her fight alone.
-- And Jo dropped down beside the bed in a passion of penitent tears, telling all that had happened, bitterly condemning her hardness of heart, and sobbing out her gratitude for being spared the heavy pun-ishment which might have come upon her.
-- It's strong and neat, so I ought not to complain, but I know I shall feel ashamed of it beside An-nie's silk one with a gold top,' sighed Meg, surveying the little umbrella with great disfavor.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
-- Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.
-- At intervals, he would refer to piles of old log-books beside him, wherein were set down the seasons and places in which, on various former voyages of various ships, sperm whales had been captured or seen.
-- On the table beside him lay unrolled one of those charts of tides and currents which have previously been spoken of.
-- But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahab's brain, as standing like an iron statue at his accustomed place beside the mizen rigging, with one nostril he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary musk from the Bashee isles (in whose sweet woods mild lovers must be walking), and with the other consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea; that sea in which the hated White Whale must even then be swimming.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble walked on with long strides; little Oliver, firmly grasping his gold-laced cuff, trotted beside him, inquiring at the end of every quarter of a mile whether they were 'nearly there.'
-- An old woman, too, had drawn a low stool to the cold hearth, and was sitting beside him.
-- Along this same footpath, Oliver well-remembered he had trotted beside Mr. Bumble, when he first carried him to the workhouse from the farm.
-- As he spoke, he drew a chair beside the matron, and tenderly inquired what had happened to distress her.
-- Close beside him stood Charlotte, opening oysters from a barrel: which Mr. Claypole condescended to swallow, with remarkable avidity.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She feared that the young boys about would address such remarks to her--boys who, beside Drouet, seemed uncouth and ridiculous.
-- She fancied she and Carrie were somewhere beside an old coal-mine.
-- Here was this greatest mystery, the man of money and affairs sitting beside her, appealing to her.
-- Mother looked down, and there beside her was a little ragged girl."
-- He could have cursed the man beside him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kissed each Marionette in turn, even the officers, and, beside himself with joy, set out on his homeward journey.
-- Pinocchio, beside himself with joy, thanked the Fox and the Cat many times and promised them each a beautiful gift.
-- Pinocchio was beside himself with joy.
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