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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Russians in general are broad in their ideas, Avdotya Romanovna, broad like their land and exceedingly disposed to the fantastic, the chaotic.
-- But it's a misfortune to be broad without a special genius.
-- But now she quite gave up all effort, now it was a grin, a broad grin; there was something shameless, provocative in that quite unchildish face; it was depravity, it was the face of a harlot, the shameless face of a French harlot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, now, a huge,strong fellow of six feet high, broad in proportion, and round-shouldered; but with a simpering boy's face and curly light hairthat gave him quite a sheepish look.
-- We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with abalustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost aseasily; and into a shady old drawingroom, lighted by some three orfour of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street:which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of thesame trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in theceiling.
-- A glorious old room it was, with more oakbeams, and diamond panes; and the broad balustrade going all theway up to it.
-- There were two great aloes, in tubs, on the turfoutside the windows; the broad hard leaves of which plant(looking as if they were made of painted tin) have ever since, byassociation, been symbolical to me of silence and retirement.
-- After delivering this speech allin a breath, and with extraordinary animation and pleasure, Mr.Peggotty put one of his large hands rapturously on each side of hisniece's face, and kissing it a dozen times, laid it with a gentle prideand love upon his broad chest, and patted it as if his hand hadbeen a lady's.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a done thing; Mr. Elton was to go, and never had his broad handsome face expressed more pleasure than at this mo-ment; never had his smile been stronger, nor his eyes more exulting than when he next looked at her.
-- No, it was long enough, broad enough, handsome enough.
-- Miss Woodhouse appeared more than once, and never without a something of pleasing connexion, ei-ther a compliment to her taste, or a remembrance of what she had said; and in the very last time of its meeting her eye, unadorned as it was by any such broad wreath of gal-lantry, she yet could discern the effect of her influence and acknowledge the greatest compliment perhaps of all con-veyed.
-- It was hot; and after walking some time over the gardens in a scattered, dispersed way, scarcely any three together, they insensibly followed one another to the delicious shade of a broad short avenue of limes, which stretching beyond the garden at an equal distance from the river, seemed the finish of the pleasure grounds. It led to nothing; nothing but a view at the end over a low stone wall with high pil-lars, which seemed intended, in their erection, to give the appearance of an approach to the house, which never had been there.
-- and resolved, that his mourning should be as handsome as possible; and his wife sat sighing and moralising over her broad hems with a commiseration and good sense, true and steady.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
-- With these were intertwined undulating snakes of green, and behind these was a broad mass of lesser light.
-- Troy did not awake from his comfortless sleep till it was broad day.
-- The broad steely sea, marked only by faint lines, which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front and round to the right, where, near the town and port of Budmouth, the sun bristled down upon it, and banished all colour, to substitute in its place a clear oily polish.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had broad shoulders, a well-developed chest, muscular arms, and strong square-fisted hands; the joints of his fingers were covered with tufts of fiery red hair.
-- He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.
-- Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkesplantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.
-- Seeing no broad black face, turbaned in snowywhite, peering disapprovingly from between fluttering curtains, she boldly snatched up her green flowered skirts andsped down the path toward the driveway as fast as her small ribbon-laced slippers would carry her.
-- His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one,knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in His wisdom was going to allow him.
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