sphere是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 球, 球面; 天体; (兴趣, 活动, 势力等的) 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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a man of Totski's wealth and standing, it would, of course, have been the simplest possible matter to take steps which would rid him at once from all annoyance; while it was obviously impossible for Nastasia Philipovna to harm him in any way, either legally or by stirring up a scandal, for, in case of the latter danger, he could so easily remove her to a sphere of safety.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this had been done, and Mrs Jarley had waited upon the boarding-schools in person, with a handbill composed expressly for them, in which it was distinctly proved that wax-work refined the mind, cultivated the taste, and enlarged the sphere of the human understanding, that indefatigable lady sat down to dinner, and drank out of the suspicious bottle to a flourishing campaign.
-- Neither Mr nor Mrs Garland offered any opposition to his tearing himself away (feeling, no doubt, that such a man could ill be spared from his proper sphere of action), and therefore Mr Chuckster and Kit were shortly afterwards upon their way to town; Kit being perched upon the box of the cabriolet beside the driver, and Mr Chuckster seated in solitary state inside, with one of his boots sticking out at each of the front windows.
-- ' 'Oh yes, to be sure yes, I did,' says Mr Swiveller with a smile. 'Have the goodness to banish a levity, sir, which is very ill-suited to the place in which you stand (though perhaps you have reason to be thankful that it's only that place),' says Mr Brass's gentleman, with a nod of the head, insinuating that the dock is Mr Swiveller's legitimate sphere of action; 'and attend to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such homes had these various notabilities left behind them in the fine world of Paris, that the spies among the assembled devotees of Monseigneur forming a goodly half of the polite compa-ny would have found it hard to discover among the angels of that sphere one solitary wife, who, in her manners and appearance, owned to being a Mother.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.
-- It was the consciousness of a new sphere of liability to pain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is evident to methat Australia is the legitimate sphere of action for Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They would be estimated very differently by others as well as myself; Mr. Martin may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society. The sphere in which she moves is much above his. It would be a degradation.'
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I learned from Werter's imagina-tions despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further, that it is the desire of the present possessor of that property, that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,--in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you have robbed me for no one's enrichment only for the greater desolation of this world of the immaterial part of my life, the spring and summer of my belief, my refuge from what is sordid and bad in the real things around me, my school in which I should have learned to be more humble and more trusting with them, and to hope in my little sphere to make them better?'
-- FINALIt is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gazing around, I began to think of the theory of the English captain who compared the earth to a vast hollow sphere in the interior of which the air is retained in a luminous state by means of atmospheric pressure, while two stars, Pluto and Proserpine, circled there in their mysterious orbits.
-- The waters flowed over the whole surface of the globe; they boiled; they were volatilized, or turned into vapor; a kind of steam cloud wrapped the whole earth, the globe itself becoming at last nothing but one huge sphere of gas, indescribable in color, between white heat and red, as big and as brilliant as the sun.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Painfully aware, Miss Dorrit, I am sure,' said Flora, 'that to propose an adjournment to any place to one so far removed by fortune and so courted and caressed by the best society must ever appear intruding even if not a pie-shop far below your present sphere and a back-parlour though a civil man but if for the sake of Arthur cannot overcome it more improper now than ever late Doyce and Clennam one last remark I might wish to make one last explanation I might wish to offer perhaps your good nature might excuse under pretence of three kidney ones the humble place of conversation.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As her couldn't, Jo wiped his eyes for him, and said, laughing, as she took away a bundle or two... 'I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens.
-- Everybody's health was proposed, form Mr. Laurence, who was consid-ered their special patron, to the astonished guinea pig, who had strayed from its proper sphere in search of its young master.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!who could hope, when the distant world to which she was akin, half opened to her view, that she would return to the sorrow and calamity of this!Rose, Rose, to know that you were passing away like some soft shadow, which a light from above, casts upon the earth; to have no hope that you would be spared to those who linger here; hardly to know a reason why you should be; to feel that you belonged to that bright sphere whither so many of the fairest and the best have winged their early flight; and yet to pray, amid all these consolations, that you might be restored to those who loved you--these were distractions almost too great to bear.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Particularly if it be evening--that mystic period between the glare and gloom of the world when life is changing from one sphere or condition to another.
-- Before following her in her round of seeking, let us look at the sphere in which her future was to lie.
-- She could not imagine that there would be anything in such a lofty sphere for her.
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