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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A succession of low hills rich in dust, a long stretch of what they call in Australia "bush," several prairies covered with a small prickly bush, considered a great dainty by the ovine tribe, embraced many miles.
-- As far as the eye could reach, nothing was visible but one stretch of prairie, enameled with flower, in all the freshness and abundance of spring.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two hours were a long stretch of lounging about, after a long day's labour.
-- I think Tom may be gradually falling into trouble, and I wish to stretch out a helping hand to him from the depths of my wicked experience. Shall I say again, for his sake?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the utmost stretch of the imagination would not allow me to realize the truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.
-- Influenced by these noble sentiments, they had even gone out of their way to purchase little luxuries in the grocery and butter line to which they were unaccustomed; saying to one another, that if they did stretch a point, was it not for a neighbour and a friend, and for whom ought a point to be stretched if not for such?
-- Mr Sparkler came and sat down on the other side of her, and she felt the fraternal railing come behind her, and apparently stretch on to include Fanny.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully,' began Meg, whose gloves were a ten-der point with her.
-- I always imag-ine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
-- she did not stretch out her yearning arms in vain.
-- Touched to the heart, Mrs. March could only stretch out her arms, as if to gather children and grandchildren to herself, and say, with face and voice full of motherly love, gratitude, and humility... 'Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.
-- In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Hurst had therefore nothing to do, but to stretch himself on one of the sofas and go to sleep.
-- But he had given a reason for his interference, which asked no extraordinary stretch of belief.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the northward upon our own coast, with design to stretch over for the African coast when we came about ten or twelve degrees of northern latitude, which, it seems, was the man-ner of course in those days.
-- Just as I had set my mast and sail, and the boat began to stretch away, I saw even by the clearness of the water some alteration of the current was near; for where the current was so strong the water was foul; but perceiving the water clear, I found the current abate; and presently I found to the east, at about half a mile, a breach of the sea upon some rocks: these rocks I found caused the current to part again, and as the main stress of it ran away more southerly, leaving the rocks to the north-east, so the other returned by the re-pulse of the rocks, and made a strong eddy, which ran back again to the north-west, with a very sharp stream.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beyond the entrance of the valley, where the country, though still rich, was less wild and more open, a long stretch of the road which they had travelled on first coming to Barton, lay before them; and on reaching that point, they stopped to look around them, and examine a prospect which formed the distance of their view from the cottage, from a spot which they had never happened to reach in any of their walks before.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Watson would say, 'Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;' and 'Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry set up straight;' and pretty soon she would say, 'Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry why don't you try to be- have?'
-- I made fast and laid down under Jim's nose on the raft, and began to gap, and stretch my fists out against Jim, and says: 'Hello, Jim, have I been asleep?
-- You'd see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her, and she'd stretch out and shut her eyes and wave her ears whilst the pigs was milking her, and look as happy as if she was on sal-ary.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the eyes, Geppetto made the nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished.
-- At dawn, he saw, not far away from him, a long stretch of sand.
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