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：
-- It required no common exercise of fortitude in Uncas and the scout to continue the dignified and deliberate pace they had assumed in passing the lodge; especially as they immediately perceived that curiosity had so far mastered fear, as to induce the watchers to approach the hut, in order to witness the effect of the incantations.
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：
-- Slackening his pace for a moment, he leaned over and spoke.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put her hand in mine as confidingly as if she had known me from her cradle, and we trudged away together; the little creature accommodating her pace to mine, and rather seeming to lead and take care of me than I to be protecting her.
-- Occupied with such thoughts as these, and a crowd of others all tending to the same point, I continued to pace the street for two long hours; at length the rain began to descend heavily, and then over-powered by fatigue though no less interested than I had been at first, I engaged the nearest coach and so got home.
-- Kit walked about, now with quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse's pace and looked about him; and now darting at full speed up a bye-street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop, at every door.
-- Beside the little old gentleman sat a little old lady, plump and placid like himself, and the pony was coming along at his own pace and doing exactly as he pleased with the whole concern.
-- With this view he gave his unoccupied hand to Nell, and bidding her be of good cheer as they would soon be at the end of their journey for that night, and stimulating the old man with a similar assurance, led them at a pretty swift pace towards their destination, which he was the less unwilling to make for, as the moon was now overcast and the clouds were threatening rain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
-- They all withdrew a pace or so and bowed.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meanwhile we had been making headway at a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped but little water in the process.
-- Yet, as I began to thread the grove that lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I slacked my pace and went a trifle warily.
-- And Dr. Livesey shook hands with me through the stockade, nodded to Silver, and set off at a brisk pace into the wood.
-- Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for me to keep up with the rapid pace of the treasure-hunters.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hours struck too slowly to keep pace with my impatience.
-- Our pace was rapid; we could feel it by the quivering of the long steel body.
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