reach是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. 抵达; (out) 伸手, 够到n. 能达到的范围,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:
-- To reach the police office he had to go straight forward and take the second turning to the left.
-- I am a man because I err!You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was so overcome by this, that Iasked the carrier to be so good as to reach me my pocket-handkerchief again; but he said he thought I had better do withoutit, and I thought I really had, so I wiped my eyes on my sleeve andstopped myself.
-- Mycousin Annie did say, when we talked of it, that she liked to haveher friends within reach rather than to have them banished, andthe old Doctor-' 'Doctor Strong, was that?'
-- In my doubt, it did not reach them; and we shook hands, and we parted.
-- After making one or two sallies to her relief, which wererendered futile by the umbrella's hopping on again, like animmense bird, before I could reach it, I came in, went to bed, andslept till morning.
-- But, she was so incorporated with myexistence, that it was the idlest of all fancies, and would soon riseout of my reach and sight, like gossamer floating in the air.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You will puff her up with such ideas of her own beauty, and of what she has a claim to, that, in a little while, nobody within her reach will be good enough for her.
-- He had left them completely frightened; and Harriet eagerly clinging to him, and hardly able to speak, had just strength enough to reach Hartfield, before her spirits were quite overcome.
-- She had hurried on before her guests to prepare her father for their appearance, and was beyond the reach of Mr. Weston's hint.
-- 'Miss Woodhouse,' said Frank Churchill, after exam-ining a table behind him, which he could reach as he sat, 'have your nephews taken away their alphabets their box of letters?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he appealed, creeping round the holly to reach her side.
-- Gabriel's energies, patience, and industry had been so severely taxed during the years of his life between eighteen and eight-and-twenty, to reach his present stage of progress that no more seemed to be left in him.
-- Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.
-- Oak stepped aside, and read the following in an unknown hand: DEAR FRIEND, I do not know your name, but I think these few lines will reach you, which I wrote to thank you for your kindness to me the night I left Weatherbury in a reckless way.
-- Gabriel theorized, not without truth, that in quiet discussion of any matter within reach of the speakers' eyes, these are usually fixed upon it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He told himself that in some way or other the news would reach Mme.
-- Men and women for you must be nothing more than post-horses; take a fresh relay, and leave the last to drop by the roadside; in this way you will reach the goal of your ambition.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
-- This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archan-gel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
-- I knew that I must travel in a southwesterly direction to reach my destination, but the sun was my only guide.
-- I know not whether the fiend possessed the same ad-vantages, but I found that, as before I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day's journey in ad-vance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach.
-- September 5th A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a simple plan, for, with Gerald's single-mindedness of purpose, her eyes were centered on the goal andshe thought only of the most direct steps by which to reach it.
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