circle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 圆， 圆周； 集团； 周期， 循环v. 环绕， 旋转，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：
-- His companions lay in a close circle like the shots from a gun that has just been discharged, piled one on top of another.
-- Not a single elevated point was visible on the whole circle of the horizon, and on such level plains water would sweep along with fearful rapidity.
-- The crowd of natives formed in a half circle some distance off, in dead silence.
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：
-- With rows of flaring torches to light it up, and the colour and rude hilarity of an old-time banquet, it might have softened; but now, when two black-clothed gentlemen sat in the little circle of light thrown by a shaded lamp, one's voice became hushed and one's spirit subdued.
-- But down beneath me in a cleft of the hills there was a circle of the old stone huts, and in the middle of them there was one which retained sufficient roof to act as a screen against the weather.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general had once belonged to a very select circle of society, but he had been turned out of it two or three years since on account of cer-tain weaknesses, in which he now indulged with all the less restraint; but his good manners remained with him to this day, in spite of all.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They passed through the spreading host of the Achaeans and went on till they came to the place where Menelaus had been wounded and was lying with the chieftains gathered in a circle round him.
-- The fight has hemmed you in as with a circle of fire, and even now that the Trojans are within the wall some of them stand aloof in full armour, while others are fight-ing scattered and outnumbered near the ships.
-- They marked off the circle where the barrow should be, made a foundation for it about the pyre, and forthwith heaped up the earth.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a little while he was hard at work again, and the only sounds in the room were the ticking of the clock and the subdued shrillness of his quill, hurrying in the very centre of the circle of light his lampshade threw on his table.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All three began slowly to circle round, raising and stamping their feet and waving their arms; a kind of tune crept into their rhythmic recitation, and a refrain, 'Aloola,' or 'Bal-loola,' it sounded like.
-- Imagine the scene if you can!We three blue-clad men, with our misshapen black-faced attendant, standing in a wide expanse of sunlit yellow dust under the blazing blue sky, and surrounded by this circle of crouching and gestic-ulating monstrosities, some almost human save in their subtle expression and gestures, some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing but the deni-zens of our wildest dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, separating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon of the Pacific Ocean.
-- Then, slinking out of the canebrake, stooping near the ground and trying to join the dust-throwing circle be-hind Moreau's back, came the Leopard-man.
-- 'None escape,' repeated the kneeling circle of Beast People.
-- The whole circle of threescore monsters seemed to rise about us.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cubs tumbled over each other in the center of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat, and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a cub, look at him care-fully, and return to his place on noiseless feet.
-- No one was more pleased than Mowgli; and that night, because he had been appointed a servant of the village, as it were, he went off to a circle that met every eve-ning on a masonry platform under a great fig-tree.
-- They told wonderful tales of gods and men and ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sit-ting outside the circle bulged out of their heads.
-- All he wanted to do was to make a big circle uphill and get at the head of the ravine, and then take the bulls down it and catch Shere Khan between the bulls and the cows; for he knew that af-ter a meal and a full drink Shere Khan would not be in any condition to fight or to clamber up the sides of the ravine.
-- Then Rikki-tikki danced in a circle to get behind her, and Nagaina spun round to keep her head to his head, so that the rustle of her tail on the mat-ting sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind.
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 had seated himself more within the circle of light, where the frequent, uneasy glances of his guests were better enabled to separate the natural expres-sion of his face from the artificial terrors of the war paint.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her own circle of acquaintances several young men in whom she was interested had gone to Waukesha.
-- If he ever approached intoxication--or rather that ruddy warmth and comfortableness which precedes the more sloven state--it was when individuals such as these were gathered about him, when he was one of a circle of chatting celebrities.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And such another powwow as they made!In a quarter of a minute I was a kind of a hub of a wheel, as you may say spokes made out of dogs circle of fifteen of them packed together around me, with their necks and noses stretched up towards me, a-barking and howling; and more a-coming; you could see them sail- ing over fences and around corners from everywheres.
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