stretch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 伸长, 扩大, 拉长; 滥用, 曲解; n. 伸展; 一段持续时间，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：
-- The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to cal-culate successfully.
-- Let us stretch the hour or two.
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：
-- 'There is the lieuten- ant, now, who might go quietly to bed if he chose, where no doubt he could stretch himself at his ease; but does he do it?
-- How well you can stretch your legs out!It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sergey Ivanovitch liked to stretch himself on the grass in the sun, and to lie so, basking and chatting lazily.
-- But to be a town councilor and discuss how many dustmen are needed, and how chimneys shall be constructed in the town in which I don't live--to serve on a jury and try a peasant who's stolen a flitch of bacon, and listen for six hours at a stretch to all sorts of jabber from the counsel for the defense and the prosecution, and the president cross-examining my old half-witted Alioshka, 'Do you admit, prisoner in the dock, the fact of the removal of the bacon?'
-- Levin gave his scythe to Tit, and together with the peasants, who were crossing the long stretch of mown grass, slightly sprinkled with rain, to get their bread from the heap of coats, he went towards his house.
-- The immense stretch of meadow had been mown and was sparkling with a peculiar fresh brilliance, with its lines of already sweet-smelling grass in the slanting rays of the evening sun.
-- Only to stretch my legs a little.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt guilty for his scoffing; he suddenly saw the pathos in her pretense that this stretch of tar-paper and slatted walks was a blazing garden.
-- When she first sat at the steering wheel, when she moved the hand-throttle with her little finger and felt in her own hands all this power, sorcery enabling her to go as fast as she might desire (within distinct limits), she transcended human strength, she felt that she could fly like the wild goose--and then in a stretch of sand she killed the engine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We must make it stretch as far as we can;that's all.
-- Here is my aunt, in stronger spectacles, an old woman of fourscoreyears and more, but upright yet, and a steady walker of six miles ata stretch in winter weather.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.'
-- Miss Smith, and Miss Bickerton, another parlour board-er at Mrs. Goddard's, who had been also at the ball, had walked out together, and taken a road, the Richmond road, which, though apparently public enough for safety, had led them into alarm. About half a mile beyond Highbury, making a sudden turn, and deeply shaded by elms on each side, it became for a considerable stretch very retired; and when the young ladies had advanced some way into it, they 404 Emmahad suddenly perceived at a small distance before them, on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a party of gipsies.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba's eyes, shaded by one hand, were following the ascending multitude against the unexplorable stretch of blue till they ultimately halted by one of the unwieldy trees spoken of.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are alike, Melanie, loving the same quiet things, and I sawbefore us a long stretch of uneventful years in which to read, hear music and dream.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very much," was Wemmick's reply, "for I have had my legs under the desk all day, and shall be glad to stretch them.
-- A stretch of shore had been as yet between us and the steamer's smoke, by reason of the bend and wind of the river; but now she was visible, coming head on.
-- Couldn't you stretch a point and manage it?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the sparrow began to 41flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter!it shall cost thee thy life yet!'
-- Every morning the woman crept to the little stable, and cried: 'Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel if you will soon be fat.'
-- When they had walked for two hours, they came to a great stretch of water.
-- However, the fox bid him be of good cheer, and said, 'I will help you; lie down there, stretch yourself out quite stiff, and pretend to be dead.'
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