rear是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 后部, 后面; vt. /vi. 培植, 饲养，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：
-- "Well, Indians all in the north, in the rear of General Flores.
-- In Victoria, New South Wales, and Southern Australia, there are more than three thousand stations, some belonging to squatters who rear cattle, and others to settlers who farm the ground.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- lamented Lebedeff again, strain-ing towards the fireplace; but Rogojin dragged him away, and pushed him to the rear once more.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the earth-encircler roused the Achaeans, who were resting in the rear by the ships overcome at once by hard fighting and by grief at seeing that the Trojans had got over the wall in force.
-- Then Polites, own brother of Deiphobus passed his arms around his waist, and bore him away from the battle till he got to his horses that were standing in the rear of the fight with the chariot and their driver.
-- And King Agamemnon answered, 'Nestor, if the Trojans are indeed fighting at the rear of our ships, and neither the wall nor the trench has served us over which the Danaans toiled so hard, and which they deemed would be an impreg-nable bulwark both for us and our fleet I see it must be the will of Jove that the Achaeans should perish inglorious-ly here, far from Argos.
-- His comrades then lifted him off the ground and bore him away from the battle to the place where his horses stood waiting for him at the rear of the fight with their driver and the chariot; these then took him towards the city groaning and in great pain.
-- Or as a savage lion attacking a herd of cows while they are feeding by thousands in the low-lying meadows by some wide-watered shore the herdsman is at his wit's end how to protect his herd and keeps going about now in the van and now in the rear of his cattle, while the lion springs into the thick of them and fastens on a cow so that they all tremble for fear even so were the Achaeans utterly panic-stricken by Hector and father Jove.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We others in the rear found a trampled path for us when we reached the brake.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you haven't room to swing round, rear up a little and come round on your hind legs.
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：
-- Like all that passing and gloomy scene, the low basin, however, quickly melted in the darkness, and became blended with the mass of black objects in the rear of the travelers.
-- Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.
-- Nor were those in the rear wanting in every caution and foresight known to forest warfare.
-- Of them all, the straggler who brought up the rear appeared alone to betray his real thoughts, without fear of observation or dread of conse-quences.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia, or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the dread gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians.
-- Instantly the three spread boats in the rear paused on their way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
-- Taking the bread under his arm, the young gentlman turned into a small public-house, and led the way to a tap-room in the rear of the premises.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also a small rear yard, walled in by the fences of the neighbours and holding a stable where he kept his horse and trap.
-- She remembered that she was hungry and went to the little cupboard in the rear room where were the remains of one of their breakfasts.
-- A group of Cook County politicians were conferring about a round cherry-wood table in the rear portion of the room.
-- They entered the rear day coach and sat down.
-- More pupils were waiting at one of the rear doors of the barn.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turning toward the audience, he pointed to the rear of the orchestra, yelling wildly at the same time: "Look, look!Am I asleep or awake?
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