space是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 间隔； 空地， 余地； 空间v. 留间隔， 隔开，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see myself emerging one evening fromsome of these arches, on a little public-house close to the river, withan open space before it, where some coalheavers were dancing; tolook at whom I sat down upon a bench.
-- Thoughperfectly familiar with them, my conduct and manner weredifferent enough from theirs to place a space between us.
-- In the space within thehorseshoe, lower than these, that is to say on about the level of thefloor, were sundry other gentlemen of Mr. Spenlow's rank, anddressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them, sittingat a long green table.
-- Now, the churchwhich gives its name to the lane, stood in a less free situation atthat time; there being no open space before it, and the lane windingdown to the Strand.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston entered into the idea with thorough enjoyment, and Mrs. Weston most will-ingly undertook to play as long as they could wish to dance; and the interesting employment had followed, of reckoning up exactly who there would be, and portioning out the in-dispensable division of space to every couple.
-- Every door was now closed, the passage plan given up, and the first scheme of dancing only in the room they were in resorted to again; and with such good-will on Frank Churchill's part, that the space which a quarter of an hour before had been deemed barely sufficient for five couple, was now endeavoured to be made out quite enough for ten.
-- 'It would be a crowd a sad crowd; and what could be worse than dancing without space to turn in?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin, the impression of riding along is vivid and abiding.
-- A rectangular space of light appeared in the side of the hut, and in the opening the outline of Farmer Oak's figure.
-- He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.
-- She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The central space between the walls is filled with artichokes and rows of pyramid fruit-trees, and surrounded by a border of lettuce, pot-herbs, and parsley.
-- Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
-- The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow height, and the rest of the wall space is decorated with a varnished paper, on which the principal scenes from _Telemaque_ are depicted, the various classical personages being colored.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!
-- For a short space of time I re-mained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.
-- By great application, however, and after having remained during the space of sev-eral revolutions of the moon in my hovel, I discovered the names that were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and applied the words, 'fire,' 'milk,' 130 Frankenstein'bread,' and 'wood.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
-- In the open space around the depot, the softground had been cut and churned by the constant flow of traffic in and out until it resembled an enormous hog wallow,and here and there vehicles were mired to the hubs in the ruts.
-- Within the space of a few days the battles of Atlanta and of Ezra Church were fought, and both of them weremajor engagements which made Peachtree Creek seem like a skirmish.
-- She pushed her way swiftly through the crowds, past the packed, hysterical mob surging in the open space of FivePoints, and hurried as fast as she could down the short block toward the depot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as I was used to sit beside Joe whenever I entered that place of resort, I said "No, thank you, sir," and fell into the space Joe made for me on the opposite settle.
-- The strange gentleman, with an air of authority not to be disputed, and with a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us that would effectually do for each individual if he chose to disclose it, left the back of the settle, and came into the space between the two settles, in front of the fire, where he remained standing, his left hand in his pocket, and he biting the forefinger of his right.
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