peer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 同等; 同辈; vi. 仔细看, 费力地看，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above his head some little bird sang out, of a sudden; he began to peer about for it among the leaves.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have set my heart on keep-ing her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.
-- Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, god-like Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.
-- There she found Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, standing alone.
-- First he asked Nestor and King Idomeneus, then the two Ajaxes and the son of Tydeus, and sixthly Ulysses, peer of gods in counsel; but Menelaus came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was.
-- And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean is-lands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of Mars, and the son of valiant Phyleus, dear to Jove, who quarrelled with his father, and went to settle in Dulichium.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a little doubtful and tried to peer past me into the room; strange enough to her no doubt bare walls, uncurtained windows, truckle- bed, with the gas engine vibrating, and the seethe of the radiant points, and that faint ghastly stinging of chloroform in the air.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men from the other departments go to their rooms to peer into their books.
-- However much he scoffed, he was gratified when he was treated as a peer by Angus, who spent the summer as extern in the Zenith General Hospital, and who already had the unapproachable dignity of a successful young surgeon.
-- From the alley behind City Hall they could peer in and see him, dreary and deserted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a crooked stack of chimneys on one of the roofs, in which, by often looking at them, she had fancied ugly faces that were frowning over at her and trying to peer into the room; and she felt glad when it grew too dark to make them out, though she was sorry too, when the man came to light the lamps in the street for it made it late, and very dull inside.
-- Once in the street, moved by some secret impulse, he laughed, and held his sides, and laughed again, and tried to peer through the dusty area railings as if to catch another glimpse of the child, until he was quite tired out.
-- 'If they would knock again,' said Quilp, trying to peer into the gloom by which he was surrounded, 'the sound might guide me!Come!Batter the gate once more!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Scarlett absently, trying to peer through the crowd of arguing men to where Ashley still sat talking atMelanie's feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance.
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