vicinity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 邻近, 附近，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：
-- Moreover, the vicinity of the Atlantic, and the prevailing west wind, made the climate of this district particularly damp.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water had become thicker and dirtier; other barges, coming from it, passed them frequently; the paths of coal-ash and huts of staring brick, marked the vicinity of some great manufacturing town; while scattered streets and houses, and smoke from distant furnaces, indicated that they were already in the outskirts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance.
-- The immediate cause, however, of the prevalence of su-pernatural stories in these parts, was doubtless owing to the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, there was a story current among us (I have no idea, andnever had, on what authority, but I have believed it for so manyyears that I feel quite certain it is true), that on a frosty day, onewinter-time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beggar-woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neighbourhood byexhibiting a fine infant from door to door, wrapped in thosegarments, which were universally recognised, being as well knownin the vicinity as the cathedral.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wingfield thinks the vicinity of Brunswick Square decidedly the most favourable as to air.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be observed that such a class of mug is called a God-forgive-me in Weatherbury and its vicinity for uncertain reasons; probably because its size makes any given toper feel ashamed of himself when he sees its bottom in drinking it empty.
-- It has been observed in the musical circles of Weatherbury and its vicinity that this melody, at the end of three-quarters of an hour of thunderous footing, still possesses more stimulative properties for the heel and toe than the majority of other dances at their first opening.
-- They soon passed the merry stragglers in the immediate vicinity of the hill, traversed Kingsbere, and got upon the high road.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floor was a little raised, so that it was kept perfectly dry, and by its vicinity to the chimney of the cottage it was tolerably warm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes Captain; but we have unfortunately brought a troop of bipeds, whose vicinity troubles me."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all, especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from the window, and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the night.
-- "Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway.
-- The only English name, by which he has hitherto been designated, is that of the fishers Right-Whale Porpoise, from the circumstance that he is chiefly found in the vicinity of that Folio.
-- Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand.
-- Was it not so, O New Zealand Jack!thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the vicinity of the Tattoo Land?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is an undoubted fact, that although our senses of touch and sight be for the time dead, yet our sleeping thoughts, and the visionary scenes that pass before us, will be influenced and materially influenced, by the mere silent presence of some external object; which may not have been near us when we closed our eyes: and of whose vicinity we have had no waking consciousness.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to HIS easy temper, or HER affectionate heart.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house, too, as described by Sir John, was on so simple a scale, and the rent so uncommonly moderate, as to leave her no right of objection on either point; and, therefore, though it was not a plan which brought any charm to her fancy, though it was a removal from the vicinity of Norland beyond her wishes, she made no attempt to dissuade her mother from sending a letter of acquiescence.
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：
-- Cries were heard in the startling vicinity of the chasm between the two caves, which mingled with hoarser yells that arose out of the abyss of the deep ravine.
-- The officer proceeded, without affecting to hear thewords which escaped the sentinel in his surprise; nor did he again pause until he had reached the low strand, and in a somewhat dangerous vicinity to the western water bastion of the fort.
-- exclaimed Uncas, nearly at the moment that the light tap his father had made on the side of the canoe noti-fied them of the vicinity of danger.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the Falcon, bending his beak in deep reverence (for it must be known that, after all, the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair was none other than a very kind Fairy who had lived, for more than a thousand years, in the vicinity of the forest).
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