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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately, to reach them would necessitate a march of one hundred and thirty miles south; and this was why Thalcave thought it best to go first to Guamini, as it was not only much nearer, but also on the direct line of route.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.
-- 'On the night of Sir Charles's death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horse-back to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.
-- 'So that to reach the Yew Alley one either has to come down it from the house or else to enter it by the moor-gate?'
-- If he were in a hurry it opens up the interesting question why he should be in a hurry, since any letter posted up to early morning would reach Sir Henry before he would leave his hotel.
-- 'If matters came to a crisis I should endeavour to be present in person; but you can understand that, with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters, it is impossible for me to be absent from London for an indefinite time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you thought that I should consider your wretched seventy-five thou-sand, with Gania thrown in for a husband, a paradise of bliss!Take your seventy-five thousand back, sir; you did not reach the hundred thousand.
-- True, certain rumours did reach his friends, but these were both strange and rare, and each one contradicted the last.
-- 'As soon as we reach home give it to me to read.'
-- 'You will reach that with nothing to help you but credit?
-- When I was in Switzerland I used to look with as-tonishment at the many ruins of feudal castles perched on the top of steep and rocky heights, half a mile at least above sea-level, so that to reach them one had to climb many miles of stony tracks.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sons of Atreus,' he cried, 'and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apol-lo, son of Jove.'
-- Would you wait till the Trojans reach the sterns of our ships as they lie on the shore, to see wheth-er the son of Saturn will hold his hand over you to protect you?'
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
-- The fame of this wall will reach as far as dawn itself, and men will no longer think anything of the one which Phoebus Apollo and myself built with so much labour for Laomedon.'
-- Take your horses out of their chari-ots and give them their feeds of corn; then make speed to bring sheep and cattle from the city; bring wine also and corn for your horses and gather much wood, that from dark till dawn we may burn watchfires whose flare may reach to heaven.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Constans, who was 'seen by the captain to jump into the gig,'* luck-ily for us and unluckily for himself did not reach us.
-- I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disas-ter.
-- said I, pointing to them and raising my voice more and more that it might reach them.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- None of the beasts could reach them, but on the other hand none of the beasts would notice them, and that was why they were so pleased when Mowgli came to play with them, and they heard how angry Baloo was.
-- And o'er the foam-flecked offing as far as voice could reach We hailed the landing-parties and we sang them up the beach.
-- said Nag, lashing up as high as he could reach toward the nest in the thorn-bush.
-- But Dar-zee had built it out of reach of snakes, and it only swayed to and fro.
-- Rikki-tikki saw Teddy's father shoot out a big hand, catch Teddy by the shoulder, and drag him across the little table with the tea-cups, safe and out of reach of Nagaina.
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