widen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 加宽 vi. 变宽，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was getting on the stool opposite, to talk to him moreconveniently, I observed that he had not such a thing as a smileabout him, and that he could only widen his mouth and make twohard creases down his-cheeks, one on each side, to stand for one.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he passes through all these successive initiations, and breaks out of his sheath, the horizons of life widen around him, and at length he grasps the plan of society with the different human strata of which it is composed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The very state of his mind, superinduced by his condition, caused the breach to widen between him and his partner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortly afterwards, his mouth began to widen again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little by little, Herbert and he climbing up the sides of the interior, saw the crater widen above their heads.
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