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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They walked at a good pace for an hour and a half, and had to make great strides to keep up with the giant Thalcave.
-- The horses went on at a good pace through the thick PAJA-BRAVA, the grass of the Pampas, par excellence, so high and thick that the Indians find shelter in it from storms.
-- At others, she would keep pace with them, and make such enormous leaps that there was imminent danger of her being pitched over on her side, and then again, every now and then the storm-driven sea would out-distance the yacht, and the angry billows would sweep over the deck from stem to stern with tremendous violence.
-- Besides, the pace of the horses must be regulated by the slower pace of the bullocks, truly mechanical engines which lose in time what they gain in power.
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：
-- He quickened his pace until we had decreased the dis-tance which divided us by about half.
-- Her eyes were on her brother as I turned, and then she quickened her pace towards me.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had moved a pace or two away, and was hiding his hands behind him.
-- The general spoke hotly and quickly for ten minutes; he spoke as though his words could not keep pace with his crowding thoughts.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they reached the ranks of the Trojans and Achaeans they left the chariot, and with measured pace advanced into the space between the hosts.
-- It was when they were doing the last part of the course on their way back towards the sea that their pace was strained to the utmost and it was seen what each could do.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On others he would rise late, pace his room, fretting audibly for hours together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire.
-- The frantic gesticulations they surprised now and then, the headlong pace after nightfall that swept him upon them round quiet corners, the inhuman bludgeoning of all tentative advances of curiosity, the taste for twilight that led to the closing of doors, the pulling down of blinds, the extinction of candles and lamps who could agree with such goings on?
-- The despair of Mr. Marvel's face deepened, and his pace slackened.
-- Then he continued to pace the dining-room until the morning's paper came.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far re-covered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
-- I flung aside a crib of Horace I had been reading, and began to clench my fists, to bite my lips, and to pace the room.
-- The Hyena-swine ran beside me, keeping pace with me and glancing furtively at me out of his feline eyes, and the oth-ers came pattering and shouting behind us.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first thing was to send back word to Baloo and Bagheera, for, at the pace the monkeys were going, he knew his friends would be left far behind.
-- 'Good!Come all one pace nearer to me.'
-- Kotick followed, and the pace aston-ished him, for he never dreamed that Sea Cow was anything of a swimmer.
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：
-- Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could com-mand their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the surefooted and pe-culiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She walked eagerly on as she spoke; and Elinor, to screen Marianne from particularity, as she felt almost certain of its not being Willoughby, quickened her pace and kept up with her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked at her steadily for a moment, slowing his pace and fixing her with his eye.
-- "No one can keep up with her pace unless they've got a lot of money."
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