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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XVII A SERIOUS NECESSITYTHE Argentine Pampas extend from the thirty-fourth to the fortieth degree of southern latitude.
-- Toward noon they had crossed the Sierra, and descended into the undulating plains which extend to the sea.
-- A mile beyond the road to Kilmore, the wagon, for the first time since leaving Cape Bernouilli, struck into one of those forests of gigantic trees which extend over a super-fices of several degrees.
-- Glenarvan, therefore, was fully prepared to pay the penalty of the righteous indignation that nerved his arm, but he hoped that the wrath of Kai-Koumou would not extend beyond himself.
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：
-- Encouraged and deluded by his success, David exerted all his powers to extend what he believed so holy an influence.
-- The effect of his- indifference began to extend itself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting the condition of a boy to enter the state of manhood, attempted to assist the terma-gant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their victim, and adding his empty boasts to the taunts of the women.
-- Tired of keeping the extremities of his long person so near together, the singer gradually suffered the lower limbs to extend themselves, until one of his misshapen feet actu-ally came in contact with and shoved aside the embers of the fire.
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.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently the gaze of an observer posted on its summit would extend over a radius of at least fifty miles.
-- It was then perfectly dark, and their gaze could not extend over a radius of two miles.
-- But the vegetation did not extend far, and a long, sandy plain, which began at the foot of these slopes, reached to the beach.
-- One would really say, that the western part of Lincoln Island, so rich and so fertile, is washed by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and that its shores to the north and the southeast extend over a sort of Arctic sea."
-- From the point of the peninsula on which the settlers now were their gaze could extend along the southwest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlady, however, who possessed more readiness and activity than any of them, and who had withal a quicker perception of the merits of the case, soon came running in, with a little hot brandy and water, followed by her servant-girl, carrying vinegar, hartshorn, smelling-salts, and such other restoratives; which, being duly administered, recovered the child so far as to enable her to thank them in a faint voice, and to extend her hand to the poor schoolmaster, who stood, with an anxious face, hard by.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So abhorent was she to him now that he could not extend his hand to her, as he desired.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not an herb which carpeted the ground, not a branch which clothed the trees, was either broken or bent, nor did they extend horizontally; all stretched up to the surface of the ocean.
-- However, on the 11th of December we sighted the Pomotou Islands, the old "dangerous group" of Bougainville, that extend over a space of 500 leagues at E.S.E.
-- These mines extend under the waves like the mines of Newcastle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had his life-work now, to extend over the earth a great and perfect system in which the will of man ran smooth and unthwarted, timeless, a Godhead in process.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Extend it a little farther, and it will make me happy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This left Mrs. Hurstwood in the mood to extend the perfunctory greetings of some who knew her into short conversations, and the short conversations of friends into long ones.
-- About a month later, finding that he had not made any progress, Shaughnessy reported definitely that Slawson would not extend the lease.
-- How would it do to make it, say, one hundred and fifty a week and extend it for twelve months?"
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