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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Likely enough, but when you come to ascend it, probably you'll think it high enough."
-- "Just this, madame; the Patagonians have short legs, and a large bust; or by way of a joke we might say that these natives are six feet high when they are sitting, and only five when they are standing."
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now our case was very dismal indeed; for we all saw plainly that the sea went so high that the boat could not live, and that we should be inevitably drowned.
-- I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeav-oured to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me up again; but I soon found it was impossible to avoid it; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water if I could; and so, by swimming, to preserve my breathing, and pilot myself towards the shore, if possible, my greatest concern now being that the sea, as it would car-ry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it gave back towards the sea.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion.
-- What his mother really is we cannot know; but, from Fanny's occasional mention of her conduct and opinions, we have never been disposed to think her amiable; and I am very much mistaken if Edward is not himself aware that there would be many difficulties in his way, if he were to wish to marry a woman who had not either a great fortune or high rank."
-- High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody.
-- The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
-- They gaily ascended the downs, rejoicing in their own penetration at every glimpse of blue sky; and when they caught in their faces the animating gales of a high south-westerly wind, they pitied the fears which had prevented their mother and Elinor from sharing such delightful sensations.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far away were indications of suburban towns, some big smokestacks towering high in the air.
-- The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
-- High noon came, and with it hunger.
-- By the time she was dressed he was gone, and she, Minnie, and the baby ate together, the latter being just old enough to sit in a high chair and disturb the dishes with a spoon.
-- This to him represented in part high life--a fair sample of what the whole must be.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What!and I as high as a tree and as big as a church?
-- I went down to the front garden and clumb over the stile where you go through the high board fence.
-- Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thir-teen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
-- Chapter VIII HE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it Twas after eight o'clock.
-- On that side it was a good many miles wide, but on the Missouri side it was the same old distance across a half a mile because the Missouri shore was just a wall of high bluffs.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throwing the rope over the high limb of a giant oak tree, they pulled till the poor Marionette hung far up in space.
-- And Pinocchio, standing on a high rock, tired out with searching, waved to him with hand and cap and even with his nose.
-- This said, he took the path at so swift a gait that he seemed to fly, and at every small sound he heard, he turned in fear to see whether the Terrible Shark, five stories high and with a train in his mouth, was following him.
-- "Good-by, then, and remember me to the grammar schools, to the high schools, and even to the colleges if you meet them on the way."
-- the two boys pulled off their caps and threw them high in air.
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