round是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 圆的prep. 围绕ad. 在周围v. 绕行n. (一) 回合，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house was ventilated by two round holes, like the lights of a ship's cabin, with wood slides.
-- Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a round table in the middle, with a purplish-red marble top, on which there stands, by way of ornament, the inevitable white china tea-service, covered with a half-effaced gilt network.
-- You expect in such places as these to find the weather-house whence a Capuchin issues on wet days; you look to find the execrable engravings which spoil your appetite, framed every one in a black varnished frame, with a gilt beading round it; you know the sort of tortoise-shell clock-case, inlaid with brass; the green stove, the Argand lamps, covered with oil and dust, have met your eyes before.
-- But then he was on very good terms with the widow; he used to call her "mamma," and put his arm round her waist, a piece of flattery perhaps not appreciated to the full!The worthy woman might imagine this to be an easy feat; but, as a matter of fact, no arm but Vautrin's was long enough to encircle her.
-- And, as in a school, as in the world itself, there was among the eighteen men and women who met round the dinner table a poor creature, despised by all the others, condemned to be the butt of all their jokes.
-- He had grown sadder day by day under the influence of some hidden trouble; among all the faces round the table, his was the most woe- begone.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our situation was some-what dangerous, especially as we were compassed round by a very thick fog.
-- He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquer-ades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
-- When she entered the court she threw her eyes round it and quickly discovered where we were seated.
-- The picture was then produced which the servant had found in her pocket; and when Elizabeth, in a faltering voice, proved that it was the same which, an hour before the child had been missed, 91she had placed round his neck, a murmur of horror and in-dignation filled the court.
-- They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountaintop, the glitter-ing pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the 109eagle, soaring amidst the clouds they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Last Christmas you sure let him buzz round you plenty."
-- I heard the carriage come round tothe front of the house."
-- Ah doan mean round home but w'en you is out in comp'ny.
-- Carreen's round little face became pink, as pleasure struggled with incredulity.
-- Through the mad tearing of ideasround and round in her brain, one was beginning to take form.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
-- When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me.
-- I looked all round for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him.
-- At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
-- Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaster,--using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An owl with fiery eyes flew three times round them, and three times screamed: 'Tu whu!Tu whu!Tu whu!'
-- Many a time did he walk round and round as near to the hated castle as he dared go, but all in vain; he heard or saw nothing of Jorinda.
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