depth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 深， 深度， 深奥， 深刻，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration, being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart.
-- With a roar that sounded as if all the breath in France had been shaped into the detested word, the living sea rose, wave on wave, depth on depth, and overflowed the city to that point.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the rich people drove out, and the poor walked, but the way seemed strangely long to them; and when they came to a clump of willows which grew on the skirts of the forest, they sat down, and looked up at the long branches, and fancied they were now in the depth of the green wood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.
-- Directly after the doctor, who had taken up so much time, came the celebrated traveler, and Alexey Alexandrovitch, by means of the pamphlet he had only just finished reading and his previous acquaintance with the subject, impressed the traveler by the depth of his knowledge of the subject and the breadth and enlightenment of his view of it.
-- She knew that he would never be capable of understanding all the depth of her suffering, that for his cool tone at any allusion to it she would begin to hate him.
-- "But, Kostya, you're exaggerating," said Kitty, at the bottom of her heart rejoicing at the depth of his love for her, shown now in his jealousy.
-- While he followed this interesting conversation, Levin was all the time admiring her-- her beauty, her intelligence, her culture, and at the same time her directness and genuine depth of feeling.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not comprehend, perhaps, the depth of the sentiment with which her protector inspired her, which she called gratitude, but which, though she was unconscious of it, was really more than that.
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：
-- He was an exceptionally good-humoured and candid youth, good-natured to the point of simplicity, though both depth and dignity lay concealed under that simplicity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had that kind of shallow black eye- Iwant a better word to express an eye that has no depth in it to belooked into- which, when it is abstracted, seems, from somepeculiarity of light, to be disfigured, for a moment at a time, by acast.
-- I fathomed the depth of therascal's whole scheme, and understood why he laid it bare.
-- I really thinkI saw tears rise to his eyes, from the depth of his own feeling of allthis.
-- The noise of wheels and tread of people 539were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth withfeathers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking the mug he drank an inch or more from the depth of its contents, and duly passed it to the next man.
-- A meditation on the obvious inference was indulged in by all, and during its continuance each directed his vision into the ashpit, which glowed like a desert in the tropics under a vertical sun, shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light, partly from the depth of the subject discussed.
-- He looked up at the sound of her pit-pat, and his changed appearance sufficiently denoted to her the depth and strength of the feelings paralyzed by her letter.
-- Bathsheba was at the full depth for tears, but she maintained a dry eye.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What can I say that will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hastily she began herdecade, telling off the beads automatically but with a depth of emotion in her voice that caused Mammy to open hereyes and shoot a searching glance at her.
-- I will " Charles stopped, for he couldn't think of anything difficult enough of accomplishment to really prove to Scarlettthe depth of his feeling, so he said simply: "I want to marry you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I consulted the most experienced seamen upon the depth of the channel, which they had often plumbed; who told me, that in the middle, at high-water, it was sev- enty glumgluffs deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the rest of it fifty glumgluffs at most.
-- These were searched and sought out through the whole na-tion, by the prince and his wisest counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity of their lives, and the depth of their erudition; who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.
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