gulf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 海湾，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：
-- Good-humoured looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too; evidently a man of a strong res-olution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us," said he.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The travellers made a hasty breakfast and started off for Assurghur, after skirting for a little the banks of the small river Tapty, which empties into the Gulf of Cambray, near Surat.
-- The Gulf of Bengal does not agree with me as well as the Indian Ocean.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What surprised him most of all was the terrible impossible gulf that lay between him and all the rest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I kissed her, and my baby brother, and was very sorry then; butnot sorry to go away, for the gulf between us was there, and theparting was there, every day.
-- Whispersreach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn'tstare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones- forJones!a boy of no merit whatever!The gulf between me and MissShepherd widens.
-- 'Now, I may be wrong inmy conclusions; it is very likely that I am; but my individualimpression is, that the gulf between my family and Mr. Micawbermay be traced to an apprehension, on the part of my family, thatMr. Micawber would require pecuniary accommodation.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is gulf set between the sisters--indeed, they are sisters no longer--the two women who refuse to acknowledge their father do not acknowledge each other.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between them, and a working woman fu' of faults, there is a deep gulf set.
-- LOWER AND LOWERThe figure descended the great stairs, steadily, steadily; always verging, like a weight in deep water, to the black gulf at the bottom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sweeping and broken waves came rolling in upon the pointed rocks; the gulf was surrounded by rocky walls--a mighty cliff, three thousand feet in height, remarkable for its brown strata, separated here and there by beds of tufa of a reddish hue.
-- The waters of the great inland sea, having reached the bottom of the gulf are now forcing themselves up the mighty shaft.
-- After a moment I looked around, and found that I was lying down on the slope of a mountain not two yards from a yawning gulf into which I should have fallen had I made the slightest false step.
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：
-- Gulf impassable, and a quiet sort of resentment on either side.
-- Gulf impass-able, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps nonexistent south of the Trent.
-- But in the Midlands and the industri-al North gulf impassable, across which no communication could take place.
-- But when it comes to expressive or executive functioning, I believe there is a gulf and an absolute one, between the ruling and the serving classes.
-- The curious gulf of silence between them!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both are conventionally compared with death; but the difference is the whole deep gulf between the struggle done, and the fight at its most desperate extremity.
-- Meanwhile Flora was murmuring in rapid snatches for his ear, that there was a time and that the past was a yawning gulf however and that a golden chain no longer bound him and that she revered the memory of the late Mr F. and that she should be at home to-morrow at half-past one and that the decrees of Fate were beyond recall and that she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray's-Inn Gardens at exactly four o'clock in the afternoon.
-- So, with a gulf between him and the good company of about a foot in width, standard measure, Mrs Plornish's father was handsomely regaled.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.
-- suddenly cried the Sicilian seaman, who being posted at the mizen-mast-head, stood directly behind Ahab, though somewhat lower than his level, and with a deep gulf of air dividing them.
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