gap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缺口； 差距； 空白； 缺乏，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge, in this most complex affair.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A broadening gap of green water appeared under me, and I pushed back with all my strength to avoid falling headlong.
-- I looked round and saw to the right of me and a half-dozen yards in front of me a narrow gap in the wall of rock through which a ray of light slanted into the shadows.
-- That gap was altogether fortunate for me, for the narrow chimney, slanting obliquely upward, must have impeded the nearer pursuers.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no place where they could bathe; the whole of the river-bank was trampled by the cattle and open to the road; even walks were impossible, for the cattle strayed into the garden through a gap in the hedge, and there was one terrible bull, who bellowed, and therefore might be expected to gore somebody.
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 even difficult for me to believe that there was a gap of full twomonths between my return to Salem House and the arrival of thatbirthday.
-- Any gap at your fireside on such a night- such agap least of all- I wouldn't make, for the wealth of the Indies!'
-- It was a wonderfulinstance to me of the gap such partings make, that although myassociation of them with the tumbledown public-house and thewooden stairs dated only from last night, both seemed dreary anddeserted, now that they were gone.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to the hedge; a gap had been broken through it, and in the gap were the footprints of the sheep.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, if only Miss Ellen was here!She understood such niceties and realized thewide gap between the duties of a field hand and those of a house nigger.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XXXVIt was the first time that a grave had opened in my road of life, and the gap it made in the smooth ground was wonderful.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was endeavouring to find some gap in the hedge, when I discovered one of the inhabitants in the next field, advanc-ing towards the stile, of the same size with him whom I saw in the sea pursuing our boat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mass, giving way to some prodigious upheaving of nature, had split in two, leaving the vast gap into which we inhabitants of the earth had penetrated for the first time.
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：
-- Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in.
-- And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come.
-- There was a gap in the con-tinuity of consciousness, almost American: but industrial really.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They leaped the gap in a moment, and went upon their way.
-- After that, he stood a little while looking at Clennam, and biting his ten nails all round; evidently while he fixed in his mind what he had been told, and went over it carefully, before the means of supplying a gap in his memory should be no longer at hand.
-- There was a gap in the conversation, which Clennam devoted to winding up his watch.
-- From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through squalid villages, where there was not a hovel without a gap in its filthy walls, not a window with a whole inch of glass or paper; where there seemed to be nothing to support life, nothing to eat, nothing to make, nothing to grow, nothing to hope, nothing to do but die.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as the oarsmen violently forced their boat through the sledge-hammering seas, the before whale-smitten bow-ends of two planks burst through, and in an instant almost, the temporarily disabled boat lay nearly level with the waves; its half-wading, splashing crew, trying hard to stop the gap and bale out the pouring water.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Watson would say, 'Don't put your feet up there, Huckleberry;' and 'Don't scrunch up like that, Huckleberry set up straight;' and pretty soon she would say, 'Don't gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry why don't you try to be- have?'
-- I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to un-hitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water.
-- He stirred up in a kind of a startlish way; but when he see it was only me he took a good gap and stretch, and then he says: 'Hello, what's up?
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