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：
-- After simpering in a small way, like one whose modesty prohib-ited a more open expression of his admiration of a witticism that was perfectly unintelligible to his hearers, he contin-ued, 'It is not prudent for any one of my profession to be too familiar with those he has to instruct; for which reason I follow not the line of the army; besides which, I conclude that a gentleman of your character has the best judgment in matters of wayfaring; I have, therefore, decided to join company, in order that the ride may be made agreeable, and partake of social communion.'
-- 'The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a line with the bark of the tree, and,' tapping his rifle, 'I can take him from where I stand, between the angle and the knee, with a single shot, putting an end to his tramping through the woods, for at least a month to come.
-- At the next moment, a fifth form was seen floating over the green edge of the fall, a little from the line of the island.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefore], been the scene of marauding and infested with refugees, cow-boys, and all kinds of border chivalry.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt; I watched her eyes for some tell-tale flash, some hint of dismay or bitterness; I scanned her brow for any passing line that might indicate a settling emotion.
-- But what the power was and what line the liberation would take remained obscure.
-- It was perhaps ten years later that one morning on board ship, about to land at Alexandria, I was bidden to line up with the other passengers for the doctor's examination.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the zenith, where the fog was less thick, gray shades bordered the clouds; under an opaque belt, a luminous line clearly traced the ho rizon.
-- At the said hour, Cyrus marked this point, and putting in a line with the sun two trees which would serve him for marks, he thus obtained an invariable meridian for his ulterior operations.
-- The pickaxe was easily found, and the hole could be seen in a perpendicular line above the spot where it was stuck in the sand.
-- It was found to be just at that part of the cliff which was between the projection at the mouth of the Mercy and a perpendicular line traced above the heap of rocks which formed the Chimneys.
-- There was nothing either on the shore, at least, in the straight line of three miles which formed the south side of the promontory, for beyond that, rising ground had the rest of the coast, and even from the extremity of the Serpentine Peninsula Claw Cape could not be seen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had been thus refreshed, the whole house hurried away into an empty stable where the show stood, and where, by the light of a few flaring candles stuck round a hoop which hung by a line from the ceiling, it was to be forthwith exhibited.
-- 'What curious people you are!What line are you in?
-- Confused by the looks and whispers of the girls, Nell stood with downcast eyes and suffered the procession to pass on, until Miss Monflathers, bringing up the rear, approached her, when she curtseyed and presented her little packet; on receipt whereof Miss Monflathers commanded that the line should halt.
-- This poetic figure, which Kit took to be in a special allusion to his own checked waistcoat, quite overcame him; Mr Brass's voice and manner added not a little to its effect, for he discoursed with all the mild austerity of a hermit, and wanted but a cord round the waist of his rusty surtout, and a skull on the chimney-piece, to be completely set up in that line of business.
-- 'If you have seen the picture-gallery of any one old family, you will remember how the same face and figure often the fairest and slightest of them all come upon you in different generations; and how you trace the same sweet girl through a long line of portraits never growing old or changing the Good Angel of the race abiding by them in all reverses redeeming all their sins 'In this daughter the mother lived again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Without fail," said Nekhludoff, and seeing the dissatisfied face of Kryltzoff, went over to his own team, climbed into the wagon, and holding fast to the sides of it, drove along the line of gray- coated and fettered prisoners which stretched for almost a mile.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence.
-- This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer.
-- Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognised?
-- "I'd give a shilling a line for a verbatim note," said the Editor.
-- Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That last line is much too long for the poetry,' she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
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