high是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 高的， 高度的， 高级的， 高尚的ad. 高高地，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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she began to walk and talk, he became fond of her; bought a little arm-chair and stood it by the high fender of the lodge fire-place; liked to have her company when he was on the lock; and used to bribe her with cheap toys to come and talk to him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That stupid high heel turned and gave me a sad wrench.
-- Didn't know you had a lover,' cried the girls, fluttering about Meg in a high state of curiosity and surprise.
-- 'My lord, you scornfully bade me claim your daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a fortune as the Count antonio.
-- Sallie began to laugh, but Meg nodded and lifted her eyebrows as high as they would go, which caused the ap-parition to vanish and put the sour bread into the oven without further delay.
-- Jo and Fred had several skirmishes and once narrow-ly escaped high words.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
-- Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
-- Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes.
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the gentleman in the high chair.
-- 'Boy,' said the gentleman in the high chair, 'listen to me.
-- 'Well!You have come here to be educated, and taught a useful trade,' said the red -faced gentleman in the high chair.
-- The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr. Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said, 'Mr.
-- It chanced one morning, while Oliver's affairs were in this auspicious and comfortable state, that Mr. Gamfield, chimney-sweep, went his way down the High Street, deeply cogitating in his mind his ways and means of paying certain arrears of rent, for which his landlord had become rather pressing.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have a high respect for your nerves.
-- So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great!Not handsome enough to dance with!I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.
-- On entering the drawing-room she found the whole party at loo, and was immediately invited to join them; but suspecting them to be playing high she declined it, and making her sister the excuse, said she would amuse herself for the short time she could stay below, with a book.
-- She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the of-ficers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.
-- A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home; upon which our master ordered out the sheet-anchor, so that we rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the bitter end.
-- Once or twice in the daytime I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe, being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries, and had a great mind to venture out, in hopes of reaching thither; but having tried twice, I was forced in again by contrary winds, the sea also going too high for my little vessel; so, I resolved to pursue my first design, and keep along the shore.
-- In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship's side; and getting all into her, let go, and com-mitted ourselves, being eleven in number, to God's mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated consid-erably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called DEN WILD ZEE, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.
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