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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is formed of a semi-circular ridge of gneiss hills, covered with fine short grass.
-- They hoped then to find some practicable ridge that would allow of a passage to the neighboring peaks that were thrown together in an orographic maze, to which poor Paganel's genius would doubtless have found the clew.
-- They made the descent noiselessly, and after about ten minutes, arrived on the narrow ridge that crossed the native lines, fifty feet above the camp.
-- Glenarvan's hat was pierced by two balls, and they concluded that it was out of the question to venture again on the ridge between two lines of marksmen.
-- At two hundred feet below the summit, John Mangles and his sailors reached the dangerous ridge that had been so obstinately defended by the natives.
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：
-- There it was again upon our left!On that side a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a stone-strewn slope.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lifted the redoubtable helmet, and set it upon his head, from whence it shone like a star, and the golden plumes which Vulcan had set thick about the ridge of the helmet, waved all around it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the I ridge behind the house, scarcely heeding whither I went; passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight-stemmed trees beyond it, and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge, and descending to-wards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he had much ado to maintain his seat; sometimes slipping on one side, sometimes on an-other, and sometimes jolted on the high ridge of his horse's backbone, with a violence that he verily feared would cleave him asunder.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They wished to reach the second cone, and proceeding along the ridge of the spurs seemed to be the best way by which to gain it.
-- On the left, the sight extended several miles to the north; but, on the northwest, at the point occupied by the explorers, it was cut short by the ridge of a fantastically-shaped spur, which formed a powerful support of the central cone.
-- It was nearly eight o'clock when Cyrus Harding and Herbert set foot on the highest ridge of the mountain at the summit of the cone.
-- There a site was chosen, at the back of the southern ridge of the mountain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a soothing, luxurious, drowsy way of travelling, to lie inside that slowly-moving mountain, listening to the tinkling of the horses' bells, the occasional smacking of the carter's whip, the smooth rolling of the great broad wheels, the rattle of the harness, the cheery good-nights of passing travellers jogging past on little short-stepped horses all made pleasantly indistinct by the thick awning, which seemed made for lazy listening under, till one fell asleep!The very going to sleep, still with an indistinct idea, as the head jogged to and fro upon the pillow, of moving onward with no trouble or fatigue, and hearing all these sounds like dreamy music, lulling to the senses and the slow waking up, and finding one's self staring out through the breezy curtain half-opened in the front, far up into the cold bright sky with its countless stars, and downward at the driver's lantern dancing on like its namesake Jack of the swamps and marshes, and sideways at the dark grim trees, and forward at the long bare road rising up, up, up, until it stopped abruptly at a sharp high ridge as if there were no more road, and all beyond was sky and the stopping at the inn to bait, and being helped out, and going into a room with fire and candles, and winking very much, and being agreeably reminded that the night was cold, and anxious for very comfort's sake to think it colder than it was! What a delicious journey was that journey in the waggon.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment, till, thinking I was now got far enough to the south, I took the cover of some thick bushes and crept warily up to the ridge of the spit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrived at the upper ridge of the promontory, I saw a vast white plain covered with morses.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a hill not above a mile from me, which rose up very steep and high, and which seemed to overtop some other hills, which lay as in a ridge from it northward.
-- In the night, I took my first con-trivance, and got up in a tree, where I slept well; and the next morning proceeded upon my discovery; travelling nearly four miles, as I might judge by the length of the val-ley, keeping still due north, with a ridge of hills on the south and north side of me.
-- She lay almost where she did at first, but not quite; and was turned, by the force of the waves and the winds, almost bottom upward, against a high ridge of beachy, rough sand, but no water about her.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This place was a tolerable long, steep hill or ridge about forty foot high.
-- The ridge our cavern was in was full of them.
-- I says: 'Now you think it's bad luck; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on the top of the ridge day before yesterday?
-- I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern.
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