ridge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 脊, 山脊, 岭，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：
-- There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were un-20 A tale of two citiesyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees.
-- Also, I see that their long shadows are on the hollow ridge on the opposite side of the road, and are on the hill above it, and are like the shadows of giants.
-- There was a low plastered ceiling to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The long white ridge of his spine, with the huge, prominent shoulder blades and jutting ribs and vertebrae, was bare, and Marya Nikolaevna and the waiter were struggling with the sleeve of the night shirt, and could not get the long, limp arm into it.
-- Seryozha looked intently at the teacher, at his scanty beard, at his spectacles, which had slipped down below the ridge on his nose, and fell into so deep a reverie that he heard nothing of what the teacher was explaining to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this point it described a long curve, descending towards Bitter Creek Valley, to rise again to the dividing ridge of the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
-- At eleven in the morning the train had reached the dividing ridge of the waters at Bridger Pass, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-four feet above the level of the sea, one of the highest points attained by the track in crossing the Rocky Mountains.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a wooden house with towers, swings, hammocks, rather mussy shade trees, a rather mangy lawn, a rather damp arbor, and an old carriage-house with a line of steel spikes along the ridge pole.
-- That evening, the hot breeze languished along the palm-waving ridge where the ashes of Gustaf Sondelius were lost among cinders, and a depression in a garden marked the grave of Leora.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sit with my eyeon Mr. Creakle, blinking at him like a young owl; when sleepoverpowers me for a minute, he still looms through my slumber,ruling those ciphering-books, until he softly comes behind me andwakes me to plainer perception of him, with a red ridge across myback.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The field he was in this morning sloped to a ridge called Norcombe Hill.
-- He passed through the trees and along the ridge of the hill.
-- In the open ground before him, as he looked over the ridge of the rick, was a dark and apparently female form.
-- The ridge was in a cutting, so that she was very near the husband and wife before she became visible.
-- At three in the afternoon he found himself at the foot of a slope more than a mile in length, which ran to the ridge of a range of hills lying parallel with the shore, and forming a monotonous barrier between the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washingtonstreets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a pathcalled the Peachtree Trail.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, 102 Gulliver's Travelsapproaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.
-- The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the north-east by a ridge of mountains thirty miles high, which are altogether impassable, by reason of the volcanoes upon the 134 Gulliver's Travelstops: neither do the most learned know what sort of mor-tals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be inhabited at all.
-- The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; nei-ther do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
-- The ladders were now applied, and mounted by several men; which the monkey observing, and finding himself al-most encompassed, not being able to make speed enough 150 Gulliver's Travelswith his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, and made his escape.
-- Here I sat for some time, five hundred yards from the ground, expecting every moment to be blown down by the wind, or to fall by my own giddiness, and come tumbling over and over from the ridge to the eaves; but an honest lad, one of my nurse's footmen, climbed up, and putting me into his breeches pocket, brought me down safe.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia.
-- And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance.
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