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：
-- Up to what moment did you see him beside you?
-- The horses lay down on the ground, and the men stretched themselves beside them in a close group.
-- They seized their weapons at once, and stationed themselves beside the Patagonian, who pointed toward the plain from whence the yelling resounded.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he is waiting, this villain, beside that candle.
-- And my uncle!There was the footprint of the hound beside him as he lay.
-- Beside it lay some cook-ing utensils and a bucket half-full of water.
-- You will see it there beside the path.
-- Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away no doubt by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he shouted, quite beside himself with fury.
-- 'I arrived at the old woman's house beside myself.
-- The poor fellow was beside himself to get her a bouquet of camellias.
-- But when he observed that the prince was seated beside Nastasia Philipovna, he could not take his eyes off him for a long while, and was clearly amazed.
-- Nastasia was absolutely beside herself.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.
-- Till now they have been warring upon the plain, mad with lust of battle, but now they have left off fighting, and are leaning upon their shields, sitting still with their spears planted beside them.
-- He mounted the chariot, gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor took his seat beside him; they then drove through the Scaean gates on to the plain.
-- He gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor sat beside him; the two then went back to Ilius.
-- Presently he saw the son of Tydeus, noble Diomed, standing by his char-iot and horses, with Sthenelus the son of Capaneus beside him; whereon he began to upbraid him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she saw he had removed his glasses; they were beside him on the table, and it seemed to her that his eye sockets were extraordinarily hollow.
-- But in another moment he was beside her.
-- CHAPTER XIV AT PORT STOWE Ten o'clock the next morning found Mr. Marvel, unshaven, dirty, and travel-stained, sitting with the books beside him and his hands deep in his pockets, looking very weary, nervous, and uncomfortable, and inflating his cheeks at infrequent intervals, on the bench outside a little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.
-- Beside him were the books, but now they were tied with string.
-- When he had been sitting for the best part of an hour, however, an elderly mariner, carrying a newspaper, came out of the inn and sat down beside him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He distorted his lower lip, and nodded his head hope-lessly at the grey-haired man beside him, to indicate his powerlessness to help me.
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