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：
-- If they have gone alone, they are quite as likely to move in a circle as straight, and they may be within a dozen miles of us; but if the Hurons, or any of the French Indians, have laid hands on them, 'tis probably they are now near the bor-ders of the Canadas.
-- 'Yonder scattered brand can witness that no good was intended, and this Indian will testify that no harm has been done,' returned the scout, dropping his rifle across his arm again, and following Chingachgook, who just then re-appeared within the circle of light, into the bosom of the work.
-- A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a seg-ment for his portion.
-- They who composed the outer circle of faces were on tiptoe to gaze; and even the culprit for an instant forgot his shame in a deeper emotion, and exposed his abject features, in order to cast an anxious and trou-bled glance at the dark assemblage of chiefs.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being con-sidered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The circle is ever travelled anew.
-- The soul of man wanders through the uttermost regions of the universe, and she seeks to imprison it in the circle of her account-book.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The operation lasted two hours, and then not only the case, with its valve, its springs, its brasswork, lay on the ground, but the net, that is to say a considerable quantity of ropes and cordage, and the circle and the anchor.
-- The maneuver consisted simply in surrounding the musmons and goats, and gradually narrowing the circle around them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By a slight and not unnatural mistake, sir,' said Dick, substituting another in its stead, 'I had handed you the pass-ticket of a select convivial circle called the Glorious Apollers of which I have the honour to be Perpetual Grand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He incorporated into his speech all the latest ideas then in vogue in the circle of his acquaintances, and what was then and is now received as the last word of scientific wisdom.
-- When the prosecutor had finished his speech, a middle-aged man, in a dress coat and wide semi- circle of starched shirt front, rose from the lawyer's bench, and boldly began to deliver a speech in defense of Kartinkin and Bochkova.
-- We are surprised when we hear thieves boasting of their cleverness, or murderers boasting of their cruelty, but that is only because their circle is limited, and because we are outside of it.
-- And in order not to lose her standing she instinctively clung to that circle which held the same views of life.
-- The home circle of Vladimir Vasilievitch consisted of his characterless wife, her sister, whose fortune he managed to get into his own hands by selling her property and depositing the money in his own name, and his gentle, scared, homely daughter, who was leading a solitary, hard life, and whose only diversion consisted in visiting the religious meetings at Aline's and Countess Catherine Ivanovna's.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You read, I will suppose, attentively enough; but you cannot see the speaker's white, sincere face in the bright circle of the little lamp, nor hear the intonation of his voice.
-- Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous colour like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
-- Yet a certain feeling, you may understand, tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By turning a screw I established a communication between the wire and the spiral glass, and the sea, lit by our four lanterns, was illuminated for a circle of thirty-six yards.
-- The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth.
-- I followed, and in a few minutes I had climbed to the top, which for a circle of ten yards commanded the whole mass of rock.
-- The lake, then, supporting it was a lake imprisoned by a circle of walls, measuring two miles in diameter and six in circumference.
-- From this fact he has drawn the conclusion that the Antarctic Circle encloses considerable continents, as icebergs cannot form in open sea, but only on the coasts.
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：
-- There seemed a magic circle drawn about the place, shutting out the present, enclosing the delightful, precious past, trees and deer and silence, like a dream.
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