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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soundings cannot reach them.
-- The creature fell stunned, and the force of its fall brought it within the reach of dexterous hunter's grasp.
-- "Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of the reach of sharks."
-- Now, whether this passage were miraculous or not, the Israelites, nevertheless, crossed there to reach the Promised Land, and Pharaoh's army perished precisely on that spot; and I think that excavations made in the middle of the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instruments of Egyptian origin."
-- Several times it approached within some few yards, and the Canadian was ready to strike, but the dugong made off with a sudden plunge, and it was impossible to reach it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All her life, she had sought to make herself invulnerable, unassailable, beyond reach of the world's judgment.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And hark you, Heathcliff!clear you too quite from my reach and hearing.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, what a lovely one!Only I couldn't quite reach it.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon cool draughts of air began to reach me, and a few steps farther I came forth into the open borders of the grove, and saw the sea lying blue and sunny to the horizon and the surf tumbling and tossing its foam along the beach.
-- The sight of the trees so near at hand had almost made me sick with longing, but the current had soon carried me past the point, and as the next reach of sea opened out, I beheld a sight that changed the nature of my thoughts.
-- The sun was within so few degrees of setting that already the shadow of the pines upon the western shore began to reach right across the anchorage and fall in patterns on the deck.
-- For if I could see this radiance, might it not reach the eyes of Silver himself where he camped upon the shore among the marshes?
-- And you can hear the chains a-jangle as you go about and reach for the other buoy.
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