pace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (一) 步; 步速, 速度, 节奏 vi. 踱步，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pace was suddenly checked, and, with much splash-ing and floundering, a man's voice called from the mist, 'Is that the Dover mail?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her pace never changed, and Vronsky, feeling a spatter of mud in his face, realized that he was once more the same distance from Gladiator.
-- Vronsky had hardly formed the thought that he could perhaps pass on the outer side, when Frou-Frou shifted her pace and began overtaking him on the other side.
-- She quickened her pace and rose smoothly, just as he had fancied she would, and as she left the ground gave herself up to the force of her rush, which carried her far beyond the ditch; and with the same rhythm, without effort, with the same leg forward, Frou-Frou fell back into her pace again.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch flung the telegram down, and flushing a little, got up and began to pace up and down the room.
-- She quickened her pace and walked away from them to the edge of the platform.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And meanwhile he dared not quicken his pace much, though the next turning was still nearly a hundred yards away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I take alast drowning look at the page as I give it into her hand, and startoff aloud at a racing pace while I have got it fresh.
-- The way inwhich I listened to all the incidents of the house that madethemselves audible to me; the ringing of bells, the opening and 62shutting of doors, the murmuring of voices, the footsteps on thestairs; to any laughing, whistling, or singing, outside, whichseemed more dismal than anything else to me in my solitude anddisgrace- the uncertain pace of the hours, especially at night, whenI would wake thinking it was morning, and find that the familywere not yet gone to bed, and that all the length of night had yet tocome- the depressed dreams and nightmares I had- the return ofday, noon, afternoon, evening, when the boys played in thechurchyard, and I watched them from a distance within the room,being ashamed to show myself at the window lest they shouldknow I was a prisoner- the strange sensation of never hearingmyself speak- the fleeting intervals of something like cheerfulness,which came with eating and drinking, and went away with it- thesetting in of rain one evening, with a fresh smell, and its comingdown faster and faster between me and the church, until it andgathering night seemed to quench me in gloom, and fear, andremorseall this appears to have gone round and round for yearsinstead of days, it is so vividly and strongly stamped on myremembrance.
-- said the long-legged young man, anddirectly got upon his cart, which was nothing but a large woodentray on wheels, and rattled away at such a rate, that it was as muchas I could do to keep pace with the donkey.
-- Next moment he was gaily singing Mr.Peggotty's song, as we walked at a round pace back to Yarmouth.
-- Afraid of offending him by pursuing the subjectwhen he made so light of it, I only pursued it in my thoughts as wewent on at even a quicker pace than before.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey.'
-- It had no advantage of situation; but had been very much smartened up by the present proprietor; and, such as it was, there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a slackened pace and observing eyes. Emma's remark was 'There it is.
-- She gained on them, however, 108 Emmainvoluntarily: the child's pace was quick, and theirs rather slow; and she was the more concerned at it, from their be-ing evidently in a conversation which interested them.
-- Something really important seemed announced by his looks; but, as her friend was well, she endeavoured not to be uneasy, and settling it with her father, that she would 480 Emmatake her walk now, she and Mr. Weston were soon out of the house together and on their way at a quick pace for Ran-dalls.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A twisty, rickety pace for a gig.
-- Here he walked at an even, steady pace over Yalbury Hill, along the dead level beyond, mounted Mellstock Hill, and between eleven and twelve o'clock crossed the Moor into the town.
-- At last, when they all were weary the tramp of a horse was heard in the distance First dead, as if on turf it trode,Then, clattering on the village roadIn other pace than forth he yode.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with abroken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a desertedland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, I started at once, and she leaned upon my shoulder, and we went away at a pace that might have been an imitation (founded on my first impulse under that roof) of Mr. Pumblechook's chaise-cart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized.
-- Making his pace at once much quicker and much softer, he darted on until he was very near this figure, then fell into his former walk, and called 'Rachael!'
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