area是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 面积； 地区， 地域； 领域， 范围，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：
-- The view from the summit was very extensive, stretching over an area equal to Spain.
-- They were now on the summit of the Nevadas of the Cordilleras, and could see over an area of forty miles.
-- Till the arrival of the two Pattersons, the largest establishment of this sort was that of Mr. Jamieson, which covered an area of seventy-five miles, with a frontage of about eight miles along the Peron, one of the affluents of the Darling.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We crossed the ravine down which smoked the stream of hot water, and followed the winding pathway through the canebrakes until we reached a wide area covered over with a thick, powdery yellow substance which I believe was sul-phur.
-- Then at three or four points on the edge of the sulphurous area appeared the grotesque forms of the Beast People hurrying towards us.
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：
-- The gray light, the gloomy little area of dark grass, surrounded by its border of brush, beyond which the pines rose, in breathing silence, apparently into the very clouds, and the deathlike stillness of the vast for-est, were all in unison to deepen such a sensation.
-- Fortunately for the pursued, the light of the moon, while it shed a flood of mild luster upon the little area around the ruin, was not sufficiently strong to penetrate the deep arches of the forest, where the objects still lay in deceptive shadow.
-- An order very similar to that adopted in the preced-ing interview was observed; the aged and superior chiefs occupying the area of the spacious apartment, within the powerful light of a glaring torch, while their juniors and in-feriors were arranged in the background, presenting a dark outline of swarthy and marked visages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Miss Murdstone, rising angrily, 'you area positive fool sometimes.'
-- The advertisement directed us to apply to Mrs.Crupp on the premises, and we rung the area bell, which wesupposed to communicate with Mrs. Crupp.
-- At night I repaired to Miss Mills's street, andwalked up and down, until I was stealthily fetched in by MissMills's maid, and taken the area way to the back-kitchen.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
-- Then the front door again opened, the rays streamed out, the well-known form of Boldwood was seen in the rectangular area of light, the door closed, and Boldwood walked slowly down the path.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middleGeorgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arthur Clennam came to a squeezed house, with a ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square.
-- They inquired at several little area gates, where a dejected youth stood spiking his chin on the summit of a precipitous little shoot of wooden steps, but could gain no information.
-- The time he had reserved in his mind arriving, he sent Mr Tinkler, his valet, to Mrs General's apartment (which would have absorbed about a third of the area of the Marshalsea), to present his compliments to that lady, and represent him as desiring the favour of an interview.
-- The cramped area of the prison had such an effect on Mrs Meagles that she began to weep, and such an effect on Mr Meagles that he began to gasp for air.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- The area before the house was paved with clam-shells.
-- Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale's tail to begin at that point of the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man, it comprises upon its upper surface alone, an area of at least fifty square feet.
-- Now, inclusive of the occasional wide intervals between the revolving outer circles, and inclusive of the spaces between the various pods in any one of those circles, the entire area at this juncture, embraced by the whole multitude, must have contained at least two or three square miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its streets and houses were already scattered over an area of seventy-five square miles.
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