beyond是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 在(或向) …的那边， 远于； 超出；，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac was impressed with a sense of the formidable power of the lackey who can accuse or condemn his masters by a word; he coolly opened the door by which the man had just entered the ante-chamber, meaning, no doubt, to show these insolent flunkeys that he was familiar with the house; but he found that he had thoughtlessly precipitated himself into a small room full of dressers, where lamps were standing, and hot-water pipes, on which towels were being dried; a dark passage and a back staircase lay beyond it.
-- He saw the world as it is; saw how the rich lived beyond the jurisdiction of law and public opinion, and found in success the _ultima ratio mundi_.
-- The transition was too sudden, and the contrast was so violent that it could not but act as a powerful stimulant; his ambition developed and grew beyond all social bounds.
-- On the one hand, he beheld a vision of social life in its most charming and refined forms, of quick-pulsed youth, of fair, impassioned faces invested with all the charm of poetry, framed in a marvelous setting of luxury or art; and, on the other hand, he saw a sombre picture, the miry verge beyond these faces, in which passion was extinct and nothing was left of the drama but the cords and pulleys and bare mechanism.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they 27passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind.
-- 'All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am mis-erable beyond all living things!Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
-- Cursed be the day, ab-horred devil, in which you first saw light!Cursed (although 115I curse myself) be the hands that formed you!You have made me wretched beyond expression.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll not be having the County gossiping and laughing at you for mooning your heart outabout a man who never gave you a thought beyond friendship."
-- Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was stillheld by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at suggestions of trouble with theIndians and narrate how thriving towns were growing up and plantations prospering in the new country.
-- But tonight became of the exaltationof her own spirit, Scarlett found in the whole ceremonial, the softly spoken words, the murmur of the responses, asurpassing beauty beyond any that she had ever experienced before.
-- But, today she had no eye for sun or azure sky beyond a hasty thought, "Thank God, it isn'training."
-- Shecredited her horses, especially her red mare, Nellie, with human intelligence; and if the cares of the house kept herbusy beyond the time when she expected to take her daily ride, she put the sugar bowl in the hands of some smallpickaninny and said: "Give Nellie a handful and tell her I'll be out terrectly."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- Making my way along here with all despatch, I had just crossed a ditch which I knew to be very near the Battery, and had just scrambled up the mound beyond the ditch, when I saw the man sitting before me.
-- The brewery buildings had a little lane of communication with it, and the wooden gates of that lane stood open, and all the brewery beyond stood open, away to the high enclosing wall; and all was empty and disused.
-- Nothing less than the frosty light of the cheerful sky, the sight of people passing beyond the bars of the court-yard gate, and the reviving influence of the rest of the bread and meat and beer, would have brought me round.
-- I thanked him, staring at him far beyond the bounds of good manners, and holding tight to Joe.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he alighted, he surveyed me round with great admi-ration; but kept beyond the length of my chain.
-- Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the ex-ercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
-- Her majesty, and those who attended her, were beyond measure delighted with my demeanour.
-- They would not allow me to be a dwarf, because my littleness was beyond all degrees of comparison; for the queen's favourite dwarf, the small-est ever known in that kingdom, was near thirty feet high.
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