extend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 伸出, 延长; 给予; 扩大，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：
-- The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apoc-270 A tale of two citiesryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After going about two hundred miles, the travellers at last found themselves on one of those vast plains which extend to the Atlantic, and which nature has made so propitious for laying the iron road.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Klopchuk the dairyman was bitter; Irving Watters whispered to fellow doctors that Martin was likely to extend the socialistic free clinics; F. X. Jordan had a sensible young doctor as his own candidate.
-- We'll extend this to everything!We'll have scores of physicians in hospitals helping us and confirming our results and widening our efforts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mayargue within myself, that if I had a deposit at a banking-house, themanners of Mr. Micawber, as representing that banking-house,would inspire confidence, and must extend the connection.
-- If my family are at length sensible of the deprivation towhich their own conduct has, in the past, exposed them, and nowdesire to extend the hand of fellowship, let it not be repulsed.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If so, you must extend your suspicions and comprehend Mr. Dixon in them.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not anticipate that this application of the word to a modern use would extend outside the chapters of my own chronicles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That did not extend to me, she told me in a gush of love and confidence (at that time, I had known her something less than five minutes); if they were all like Me, it would be quite another thing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the ex-tremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princ-es of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes to the man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be obliged to perform:- '1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our do-minions, without our license under our great seal.
-- I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty, 'that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excel-lent qualities of mind that he was master of; that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body; on the con-trary, we observed in our country, that the tallest persons were usually the least provided with it; that among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity, than many of the larger kinds; and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I might live to do his majesty some signal service.'
-- But indeed few of them extend even to that length.
-- For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) as-sign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the min-eral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
-- This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much further than our astronomers in Europe; for they have made a cat-alogue of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest of ours do not contain above one third part of that number.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only did he see no Rachael all the time, but he avoided every chance of seeing her; for, although he knew that the prohibition did not yet formally extend to the women working in the factories, he found that some of them with whom he was acquainted were changed to him, and he feared to try others, and dreaded that Rachael might be even singled out from the rest if she were seen in his company.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But what is there to prove that this concrete mass of lava does not extend to the centre of the earth?
-- "Well, I should fancy it to extend about forty or fifty leagues--more or less."
-- "Yes, and the Central Sea must extend at least six hundred leagues from side to side.
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：
-- Chapter 8 rs Bolton also kept a cherishing eye on Connie, feeling Mshe must extend to her her female and professional protection.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Indeed I have little doubt,' said Flora, running on with astonishing speed, and pointing her conversation with nothing but commas, and very few of them, 'that you are married to some Chinese lady, being in China so long and being in business and naturally desirous to settle and extend your connection nothing was more likely than that you should propose to a Chinese lady and nothing was more natural I am sure than that the Chinese lady should accept you and think herself very well off too, I only hope she's not a Pagodian dissenter.'
-- To extend the triumphs of such men was to extend the triumphs and resources of the nation; and Treasury felt he gave Mr Merdle to understand patriotic on the subject.
-- He, therefore, first requesting Mr Pancks to remember his voluntary declaration that his proprietor had no part in the disclosure, and that his own intentions were good (two declarations which that coaly little gentleman with the greatest ardour repeated), openly told him that as to the Dorrit lineage or former place of habitation, he had no information to communicate, and that his knowledge of the family did not extend beyond the fact that it appeared to be now reduced to five members; namely, to two brothers, of whom one was single, and one a widower with three children.
-- 'Amy,' he resumed; 'your dear sister, our Fanny, has contracted ha hum a marriage, eminently calculated to extend the basis of our ha connection, and to hum consolidate our social relations.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- **The sperm whale, as with all other species of the Leviathan, but unlike most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a gestation which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but one at a time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an Esau and Jacob: a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats, curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves extend upwards from that.
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