line是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 线； 路线， 航线； 排； 线路； 界线v. 排队； 加衬，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：
-- You miss an infinitesimal line and you can build it into a pyramid of evidence!A fly flew by and saw it!Is it possible?'
-- 'I hoped to get round you, but you took up the right line at once!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we drew a little nearer, and saw the whole adjacent prospectlying a straight low line under the sky, I hinted to Peggotty that amound or so might have improved it; and also that if the land hadbeen a little more separated from the sea, and the town and the tidehad not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, itwould have been nicer.
-- 87I heard that the man with the wooden leg, whose name wasTungay, was an obstinate barbarian- who had formerly assisted inthe hop business, but had come into the scholastic line with Mr.Creakle, in consequence, as was supposed among the boys, of hishaving broken his leg in Mr. Creakle's service, and having done adeal of dishonest work for him, and knowing his secrets.
-- sir,' he said, bowing and chuckling, and tucking in the endsof his neckerchief at his breast: 'I thankee, sir, I thankee!I do myendeavours in my line of life, sir.'
-- There never was such another drunken madman in that line ofbusiness, I hope.
-- I found Uriah reading agreat fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lankfore-finger followed up every line as he read, and made clammytracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin, I suppose, is not a man of information be-yond the line of his own business?
-- He came to ask me whether I thought it would be imprudent in him to settle so early; whether I thought her too young: in short, whether I approved his choice al-together; having some apprehension perhaps of her being considered (especially since your making so much of her) as in a line of society above him.
-- It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again.
-- I should not attempt it, if it were to be the means of inconvenience to the Highbury people, but if you call to mind exactly the present line of the path芒聙娄.
-- He would feel himself in the right; and the declaration made, of course, as a man of sense would make it, in a proper manner would do him more good, raise him higher, fix his interest stronger with the people he depended on, than all that a line of shifts and expedi-ents can ever do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- Yet she was not a shy girl by any means; it was merely her instinct to draw the line dividing the seen from the unseen higher than they do it in towns.
-- The book was opened the leaves, drab with age, being quite worn away at much-read verses by the forefingers of unpractised readers in former days, where they were moved along under the line as an aid to the vision.
-- Full of this dim and temperate bliss, he went on to fling the ewe over upon her other side, covering her head with his knee, gradually running the shears line after line round her dewlap; thence about her flank and back, and finishing over the tail.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A collection of dim- ribbed glass decanters, metal discs with a satin sheen on them, and piles of blue-edged earthenware plates of Touraine ware cover the sticky surfaces of the sideboards that line the room.
-- Stately Paris ignores the existence of these faces bleached by moral or physical suffering; but, then, Paris is in truth an ocean that no line can plumb.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloreddreams that had in them no touch of reality.
-- Scarlett giggled as she saw three men dragged out of the line of her charms to investigate landmarks familiar tothe girls from childhood, and cut her eye sharply to see if Ashley had taken note.
-- She could notrecognize him, but as he flung himself from the saddle and clutched John Wilkes' arm, she could see that there wasexcitement in every line of him.
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