horizon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地平线; (常pl. ) 眼界, 见识，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：
-- And when he lifted his eyes from it to the horizon and looked around, he saw in his small fancy similar figures, stopped by no obstacle, tending to centres all over France.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being Laramie Peak.
-- Aouda, despite the storm, kept coming out of the waiting-room, going to the end of the platform, and peering through the tempest of snow, as if to pierce the mist which narrowed the horizon around her, and to hear, if possible, some welcome sound.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At sunset he sat on the back stoop (a very interesting and not too broken soap-box) and from the flamboyant horizon the open country flowed across the thin band of the railroad to his feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My Dear Madam, and Copperfield, 'The fair land of promiselately looming on the horizon is again enveloped in impenetrablemists, and for ever withdrawn from the eyes of a drifting wretchwhose Doom is sealed!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between this half-wooded half-naked hill, and the vague still horizon that its summit indistinctly commanded, was a mysterious sheet of fathomless shade the sounds from which suggested that what it concealed bore some reduced resemblance to features here.
-- In other directions, the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow, that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred; and in general there was here, too, that before-mentioned preternatural inversion of light and shade which attends the prospect when the garish brightness commonly in the sky is found on the earth, and the shades of earth are in the sky.
-- Standing in the centre, the sky overhead was met by a circular horizon of fern: this grew nearly to the bottom of the slope and then abruptly ceased.
-- But this was not the most noteworthy feature: they were all grouped in such a way that their tails, without a single exception, were towards that half of the horizon from which the storm threatened.
-- Oak meditatively looked upon the horizon of circumstances without any special regard to his own standpoint in the midst.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.
-- His tale had occupied the whole day, and the sun was upon the verge of the horizon when he departed.
-- The sun sank beneath the horizon as we landed, and as I touched the shore I felt those cares and fears revive which soon were to clasp me and cling to me forever.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun was now below the horizon and the red glow at the rimof the world faded into pink.
-- The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large,sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew the limekiln as well as I knew the old Battery, but they were miles apart; so that, if a light had been burning at each point that night, there would have been a long strip of the blank horizon between the two bright specks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the distance one way, Coketown showed as a black mist; in another distance hills began to rise; in a third, there was a faint change in the light of the horizon where it shone upon the far-off sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A haze on the distant horizon bounded our view.
-- Nothing to be seen beyond the horizon in front.
-- The horizon appears to retreat before us, more and more as we advance.
-- These words were scarcely uttered when the southern horizon underwent a sudden and violent change.
-- Nevertheless, the rain formed a roaring cataract before this horizon of which we were in search, and to which we were rushing like madmen.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Round the near horizon went the haze, opales-cent with frost and smoke, and on the top lay the small blue sky; so that it was like being inside an enclosure, always in-side.
-- And yet when he had finished, soon over, and lay very very still, receding into silence, and a strange motionless distance, far, farther than the horizon of her awareness, her heart began to weep.
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