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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is at least this much in its behalf: my uncle passed out of human knowledge about lat-itude 5' S. and longitude 105' E., and reappeared in the same part of the ocean after a space of eleven months.
-- So, staring one another out of countenance, we remained for perhaps the space of a min-ute.
-- I suddenly turned away and thrust myself violently, possibly even frantically, through the bushes, anxious to get a clear space about me again.
-- Then there was a desolate space covered with a white sand, and then anoth-er expanse of tangled bushes.
-- I ran over the white space and down a steep slope, through a scattered growth of trees, and came to a low-lying stretch of tall reeds, through which I pushed into a dark, thick undergrowth that black and succulent un-der foot.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were part of a circle of trees that grew round an irregular space of some three or four acres, and in all that space, as Little Toomai could see, the ground had been trampled down as hard as a brick floor.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the scout, erecting his tall person with an air of military pride; 'there are not many echoes among these hills that haven't rung with the crack of my rifle, nor is there the space of a square mile atwixt Horican and the river, that 'killdeer' hasn't dropped a living body on, be it an enemy or be it a brute beast.
-- Chapter 23 'But though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Whoever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain?
-- Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as pos-sible.
-- But sad and melancholy as this group may easily be imagined, it was far less touching than another, that oc-cupied the opposite space of the same area.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave you an awful sense of the infinity of space and of the endlessness of time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour, turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom.
-- But they were dry, and there was space to stand upright, at least in the principal room, which occupied the center.
-- Over all this immense space the ocean alone was visible the island occupied the center of a circumference which appeared to be infinite.
-- To return to the Chimneys, it was enough to cross the plateau obliquely for the space of a mile, and then to descend to the elbow formed by the first detour of the Mercy.
-- Cyrus Harding pointed one leg of the compasses to the horizon, the other to Alpha, and the space between the two legs gave him the angular distance which separated Alpha from the horizon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To relate how it was a long time before his modesty could be so far prevailed upon as it admit of his sitting down in the parlour, in the presence of an unknown gentleman how, when he did set down, he tucked up his sleeves and squared his elbows and put his face close to the copy-book and squinted horribly at the lines how, from the very first moment of having the pen in his hand, he began to wallow in blots, and to daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair how, if he did by accident form a letter properly, he immediately smeared it out again with his arm in his preparations to make another how, at every fresh mistake, there was a fresh burst of merriment from the child and louder and not less hearty laugh from poor Kit himself and how there was all the way through, notwithstanding, a gentle wish on her part to teach, and an anxious desire on his to learn to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve.
-- Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.
-- They often stopped to rest, but only for a short space at a time, and still kept on, having had but slight refreshment since the morning.
-- They had long since got clear of the smoke and furnaces, except in one or two solitary instances, where a factory planted among fields withered the space about it, like a burning mountain.
-- Such was their impression on Mr Swiveller, coupled with the reflection that no man could oppose his destiny, that in a very short space of time his spirits rose surprisingly, and he was enabled to give the dwarf an account of the receipt of the cake, which, it appeared, had been brought to Bevis Marks by the two surviving Miss Wackleses in person, and delivered at the office door with much giggling and joyfulness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prisoners were on the other side of the nets, between which there was a space of about seven feet for visitors, so that not only was it difficult to converse with them but a short-sighted man could not even see the face of the prisoner he was visiting.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
-- Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognised?
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