ajar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 半开的，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door was still ajar as she had left it, and the candle burning as before.
-- The bedroom-door on the staircase being unlocked, Mr Quilp slipped in, and planted himself behind the door of communication between that chamber and the sitting-room, which standing ajar to render both more airy, and having a very convenient chink (of which he had often availed himself for purposes of espial, and had indeed enlarged with his pocket-knife), enabled him not only to hear, but to see distinctly, what was passing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was in no uneasiness concerning his getting into the house again, for it was full of lodgers, and the door stood ajar all night.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock- oranges and conch - shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various-colored birds eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, know-ingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was obliged to leave the door ajar as she found it; but she fully intended that Mr. Elton should close it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door of her parents' bedroomwas slightly ajar and, before she could knock, Ellen's voice, low but stern, came to her ears.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reached this book, and a pot of ink from a shelf, and pushed the house door ajar to give me light, and I have got the time on with writing for twenty minutes; but my companion is impatient, and proposes that we should appropriate the dairywoman's cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I forced the safe myself over night, and shut it up ajar before I went away.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain's round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within.
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