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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ships of the largest tonnage find, throughout, sufficient depth of water, even close to the shore, and there is a good bottom everywhere, and abundance of fresh water, and rivers abounding in fish, and forests in game, and plenty of safe and accessible harbors; in fact a thousand things which are lacking in Strait Lemaire and Cape Horn, with its terrible rocks, incessantly visited by hurricane and tempest.
-- About three o'clock in the morning, however, the Major noticed that the roots were beginning to graze the ground occasionally, and by sounding the depth of the water with a long branch, Tom Austin found that they were getting on rising ground.
-- He found excellent moorage in five fathoms' depth of water, with a solid bottom of hard granite, which afforded a firm hold.
-- The soundings in different parts showed a depth of three feet only, so that the wagon might safely enough venture.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear prince!your words lie in the lowest depth of my heart it is their tomb!'
-- Say how odd it appears to you that a man fallen to such a depth of humiliation as I, can ever have been the actual eye-witness of great events.
-- To suppose that would be to suspect the depth of her feelings.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Hall stood there he heard his wife's voice coming out of the depth of the cellar, with that rapid telescoping of the syllables and interrogative cocking up of the final words to a high note, by which the West Sussex villager is wont to indicate a brisk impatience.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its depth and volume testified to the puma.
-- I found myself that the cries were singularly irritating, and they grew in depth and intensity as the afternoon wore on.
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：
-- He observed by the vacant expression of the Indian's countenance, that his eye, accus-tomed to the open air had not yet been able to penetrate the dusky light which pervaded the depth of the cavern.
-- The notes were in the extremes of human sounds; being sometimes melancholy and exqui-sitely plaintive, even rivaling the melody of birds and then, by sudden and startling transitions, causing the audi-tors to tremble by their depth and energy.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giv-ing greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides.
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：
-- He was not, like most of them, ignorant of kindred arts, and his taste for music and literature gave depth and variety to his comprehension of painting.
-- I had an idea that Dirk, a man of greater emotional reactions than depth of feeling, would soon forget; and Blanche's life, begun with who knows what bright hopes and what dreams, might just as well have never been lived.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the volcanic chimney which established a communication between the subterranean layers and the crater, its depth could not be calculated with the eye, for it was lost in obscurity.
-- At the beach, on which lay the body of the dugong, the water was tolerably shallow, but from this point the bottom of the lake sloped gradually, and it was probable that the depth was considerable in the center.
-- The engineer, calculating the time employed in its fall, was able to calculate the depth of the well, which was found to be about ninety feet.
-- These rooms, or rather this suite of rooms, would not occupy all the depth of the cave.
-- On the 30th of April, the two sportsmen were in the depth of the Far West, when the reporter, preceding Herbert a few paces, arrived in a sort of clearing, into which the trees more sparsely scattered had permitted a few rays to penetrate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be that in the depth of his soul there was already a mischievous intention toward Katiousha, prompted by his now unbridled animal ego, but he was not aware of it, he merely desired to visit those places in which he lived so happily, and see his somewhat queer, but amiable and good-natured, aunts, who always surrounded the atmosphere around him with love and admiration, and also to see the lovely Katiousha, of whom he had such pleasant recollections.
-- In the depth of his soul he knew that he had to depart; that his stay at his aunts was unnecessary, that nothing good could come of it, but it was so joyous and pleasant that he did not heed it, and remained.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's in the depth of them, I think."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The depth of your sorrow made me see that you have a kind heart.
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