border是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 边, 边沿; 花园中的花坛; v. 接界, 接壤，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：
-- It was not long, however, before the restless savages were heard beating the brush, and gradually approaching the inner edge of that dense border of young chestnuts which encircled the little area.
-- ' Merry Wives of Windsor he party had landed on the border of a region that is, Teven to this day, less known to the inhabitants of the States than the deserts of Arabia, or the steppes of Tartary.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are like those little nooks of still water, which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
-- The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefore], been the scene of marauding and infested with refugees, cow-boys, and all kinds of border chivalry.
-- The bridge became more than ever an object of superstitious awe; and that may be the reason why the road has been altered of late years, so as to approach the church by the border of the mill-pond.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had even a black border to his handkerchief.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He returned to the plateau, went over it in every direction, searched among the high grass on the border of the forest, all in vain.
-- Quite behind, in the southwest, extended the border of the forest.
-- The path, already trodden under the evergreen trees, was found, and at nine o'clock Cyrus Harding and his companions had reached the western border of the forest.
-- Cyrus Harding expected to reach, without incident, the course of the creek, which he supposed flowed under the trees at the border of the plain, when he saw Herbert running hastily back, while Neb and the sailor were hiding behind the rocks.
-- The sulphur spring not being of any actual use to the settlers, they proceeded towards the thick border of the forest, which began some hundred paces off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the border of this common, and close to the hedge which divided it from the cultivated fields, a caravan was drawn up to rest; upon which, by reason of its situation, they came so suddenly that they could not have avoided it if they would.
-- 'Beginning to border upon cheesiness, in fact.'
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Nautilus approached the island, that I still saw, with its remarkable border of screw-pines.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sat crushed and obliterated in a darkness that was the border of death.
-- And the next step was over the border into death.
-- And his shadow on the border of the pond, was watching for a few moments, then he stooped and groped on the ground.
-- They withheld nothing, they told everything, till they were over the border of evil.
-- The large bay windows were naked, the floor was stripped, and a border of dark polish went round the tract of pale boarding.
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