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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A narrow canal separated it from a considerable stretch of land, perhaps a continent, for we could not see its limits.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was exposed to every stare, she passed on through a stretch of torment.
-- The grey sheen of the moonlight caught the stretch of water, dark boats plashed and moved.
-- Everybody was hurrying with a blind, insect-like intentness through the dark grey air, porters were calling in un-English English, then trotting with heavy bags, their colourless blouses looking ghostly as they disappeared; Ursula stood at a long, low, zinc-covered barrier, along with hundreds of other spectral people, and all the way down the vast, raw darkness was this low stretch of open bags and spectral people, whilst, on the other side of the barrier, pallid officials in peaked caps and moustaches were turning the underclothing in the bags, then scrawling a chalk-mark.
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