broad是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 宽的， 广阔的； 广大的； 宽宏的， 豁达的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it.
-- Without ventur-ing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe that he was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between a baby and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour.
-- Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from this little earth that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shad-ows of the night were broad and black.
-- Stryver never had a case in hand, anywhere, but Carton was there, with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the court; they went the same Circuit, and even there they prolonged their usual orgies late into the night, and Carton was rumoured to be seen at broad day, going home stealthily and unsteadily to his lodgings, like a dissipated cat.
-- But, there remained a broken country, bold and open, a little village at the bottom of the hill, a broad sweep and rise beyond it, a churchtower, a windmill, a forest for the chase, and a crag with a fortress on it used as a prison.
-- Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Marquis, flambeau preceded, went from his carriage, suffi-ciently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a large oil-skin cap, which a sailor-boy of the quay had thrown over the struggling bird; a coarse hand sought its way care-fully in under the broad rim, and seized the clerk over the back and wings.
-- And then the pro-jecting windows stand so far out, that no one can see from our windows what happens in that direction!The steps are as broad as those of a palace, and as high as to a church tow-er.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs of the roll off his waistcoat; and, squaring his broad chest, he smiled joyously: not because there was anything particularly agreeable in his mind--the joyous smile was evoked by a good digestion.
-- As he approached her, his beautiful eyes shone with a specially tender light, and with a faint, happy, and modestly triumphant smile (so it seemed to Levin), bowing carefully and respectfully over her, he held out his small broad hand to her.
-- Long and broad in the haunch.
-- Annushka was already dozing, the red bag on her lap, clutched by her broad hands, in gloves, of which one was torn.
-- At the steps there stood a trap tightly covered with iron and leather, with a sleek horse tightly harnessed with broad collar-straps.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having scrutinised the house from top to bottom, he rubbed his hands, a broad smile overspread his features, and he said joyfully, "This is just what I wanted!Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I!What a domestic and regular gentleman!A real machine; well, I don't mind serving a machine."
-- A big brawny fellow with a red beard, flushed face, and broad shoulders, who seemed to be the chief of the band, raised his clenched fist to strike Mr. Fogg, whom he would have given a crushing blow, had not Fix rushed in and received it in his stead.
-- The one hundred and twenty miles between these cities were accomplished in six hours, and towards midnight, while fast asleep, the travellers passed through Sacramento; so that they saw nothing of that important place, the seat of the State government, with its fine quays, its broad streets, its noble hotels, squares, and churches.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The darkness of the broad hallway was soothing after the prairie heat and incandescence.
-- Down the central aisle, ineffectively attended by a small fussy person, thundered a man with a smile, a broad brow, and a strawpile of curly flaxen hair-- a Newfoundland dog of a man.
-- He looked out of the broad window above his bench and saw that he did have the coveted Woolworth Tower, to keep and gloat on.
-- Though a Max Gottlieb might in his research show a certain talent, yet his narrowness, his sour and antic humor, kept him from developing the broad view of education, politics, commerce, and all other noble matters which marked Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs.
-- I can't tell you how wise I consider you to have made that broad preliminary survey.
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：
-- He was a man about fifty, rather tall and thickly set, with broad high shoulders which made him look as though he stooped a little.
-- She is almost morbidly chaste, in spite of her broad intelligence, and it will stand in her way.
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