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：
-- Beyond the grove of mimosas was a stretch of sparsely timbered country, which quite deserved its name of "open plain."
-- Not a sail enlivened the vast stretch of ocean.
-- But eastward nothing but the rocky barrier of peaks and ridges that formed the Wahiti ranges, the great chain whose unbroken links stretch from the East Cape to Cook's Straits.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fancy the Yew Alley, though not marked un-der that name, must stretch along this line, with the moor, as you perceive, upon the right of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you stretch a point, we are relations, of course, but so distant that one cannot really take cog-nizance of it.
-- The pistols are loaded; we stretch the handkerchief and stand opposite one another.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities and killed it for it was so mon-strous that not a few were needed, and many a man did it stretch upon his funeral pyre.
-- The stretch of the shore, wide though it was, did not afford room for all the ships, and the host was cramped for space, therefore they had placed the ships in rows one behind the other, and had filled the whole opening of the bay between the two points that formed it.
-- It was as when a man gives a great ox-hide all drenched in fat to his men, and bids them stretch it; whereon they stand round it in a ring and tug till the moisture leaves it, and the fat soaks in for the many that pull at it, and it is well stretched even so did the two sides tug the dead body hither and thither within the compass of but a little space the Trojans steadfastly set on dragging it into Ilius, while the Achaeans were no less so on taking it to their ships; and fierce was the fight between them.
-- You have left, O Hector, sorrow unutterable to your parents, and my own grief is greatest of all, for you did not stretch forth your arms and embrace me as you lay dying, nor say to me any words that might have lived with me in my tears night and day for evermore.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw a stretch of empty downs with the wind swaying the remote green-pointed furze bushes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I ran over the white space and down a steep slope, through a scattered growth of trees, and came to a low-lying stretch of tall reeds, through which I pushed into a dark, thick undergrowth that black and succulent un-der foot.
-- An ugly-looking man, a hunch-backed human savage to all appearance, squatting in the aperture of one of the dens, would stretch his arms and yawn, showing with startling suddenness scissor-edged in-cisors and sabre-like canines, keen and brilliant as knives.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away to the northward, out to sea, ran a line of bars and shoals and rocks that would never let a ship come within six miles of the beach, and between the islands and the mainland was a stretch of deep water that ran up to the perpendicular cliffs, and somewhere below the cliffs was the mouth of the tunnel.
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：
-- We are not about to start on a squirrel hunt, or to drive a deer into the Horican, but to outlie for days and nights, and to stretch across a wilderness where the feet of men seldom go, and where no bookish knowledge would carry you through harmless.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was often his delight, after his school was dis-missed in the afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was around these that he meant to stretch his lines, not snares, but real fishing-lines.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But main roads stretch a long, long way.
-- Old Mr Garland was the first to stretch out his hand, and inquire how he felt.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- North of Haulbowline Head, the land runs in a long way, leaving at low tide a long stretch of yellow sand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo had already risen, and I was beginning to stretch my limbs, when an unexpected apparition brought me briskly to my feet.
-- Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia, and from thence to the Marquesas.
-- Yes!the open sea, with but a few scattered pieces of ice and moving icebergs a long stretch of sea; a world of birds in the air, and myriads of fishes under those waters, which varied from intense blue to olive green, according to the bottom.
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