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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Setting aside the whole grim story of Sir Charles's death, we had a line of inexplicable incidents all within the limits of two days, which included the receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the hansom, the loss of the new brown boot, the loss of the old black boot, and now the return of the new brown boot.
-- There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a pro-saic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and mas-terful men.
-- A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.'
-- You have returned to Mr. Totski his seventy-five thousand roubles, and declared that you will leave this house and all that is in it, which is a line of conduct that not one person here would imitate.
-- He might have sent a line if he did not wish to inconve-nience himself.'
-- For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person's nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable com-monplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventu-ally, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine .
-- 'Having now shown you that I am not quite such a fool as I look, and that I have to be fished for with a rod and line for a good long while before I am caught, I will proceed to explain why I specially wished to make your brother look a fool.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Run, therefore, with all speed by the line of the ships, and call Ajax and Idomeneus.
-- He buckled on his purple coat, of two thicknesses, large, and of a rough shaggy texture, grasped his redoubtable bronze-shod spear, and wended his way along the line of the Achaean ships.
-- He came outside his tent and said, 'Why do you go thus alone about the host, and along the line of the ships in the stillness of the night?
-- With these words he moved the heart of Patroclus, who set off running by the line of the ships to Achilles, descen-dant of Aeacus.
-- As a carpenter's line gives a true edge to a piece of ship's tim-ber, in the hand of some skilled workman whom Minerva has instructed in all kinds of useful arts even so level was the issue of the fight between the two sides, as they fought some round one and some round another.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voice in the dark be-gan intoning a mad litany, line by line, and I and the rest to repeat it.
-- as the ends of the line crept round the tangle of undergrowth and hemmed the brute in.
-- He was dead; and even as he died a line of white heat, the limb of the sun, rose eastward beyond the projection of the bay, splashing its radiance across the sky and turning the dark sea into a weltering tumult of dazzling light.
-- N the evening I started, and drove out to sea before a Igentle wind from the southwest, slowly, steadily; and the island grew smaller and smaller, and the lank spire of smoke dwindled to a finer and finer line against the hot sunset.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach, and between the islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that ran up to the perpendicular cliffs, and somewhere below the cliffs was the mouth of the tunnel.
-- As each man was paid he went back to his elephant, and joined the line that stood ready to start.
-- The catchers, and hunters, and beaters, the men of the regular Keddah, who stayed in the jungle year in and year out, sat on the backs of the elephants that belonged to Petersen Sahib's permanent force, or leaned against the trees with their guns across their arms, and made fun of the drivers who were going away, and laughed when the newly caught elephants broke the line and ran about.
-- Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the sil-ver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag's back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains.
-- At last the elephants began to lie down one after another as is their custom, till only Kala Nag at the right of the line was left standing up; and he rocked slowly from side to side, his ears put forward to listen to the night wind as it blew very slowly across the hills.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rude path, which originally formed their line of com-munication, had been widened for the passage of wagons; so that the distance which had been traveled by the son of the forest in two hours, might easily be effected by a de-tachment of troops, with their necessary baggage, between the rising and setting of a summer sun.
-- For many minutes the intricacy of the route admit-ted of no further dialogue; after which they emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along the line of the highway, and entered under the high but dark arches of the forest.
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