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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All these wonders I saw in the space of a quarter of a mile, scarcely stopping, and following Captain Nemo, who beckoned me on by signs.
-- However, on the 11th of December we sighted the Pomotou Islands, the old "dangerous group" of Bougainville, that extend over a space of 500 leagues at E.S.E.
-- And how many of those oysters for which he risked his life had no pearl in them!I watched him closely; his manoeuvres were regular; and for the space of half an hour no danger appeared to threaten him.
-- In the narrow space between Cape Bon and the Straits of Messina the bottom of the sea rose almost suddenly.
-- My eyes ranged far over a large space lit by a violent fulguration.
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:
-- The sisters stood watching the swimmer move further into the grey, moist, full space of the water, pulsing with his own small, invading motion, and arched over with mist and dim woods.
-- The Contessa was ready first, Alexander went to the piano, a space was cleared.
-- "There is a space between us," he said, in the same low, unconscious voice, as if something were speaking out of him.
-- Strenuously she claimed her connection with him, across the invisible space of the water.
-- And the next step led into the space of death.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
-- Well, you must allow me to leap over some three years; during that space Mrs. Earnshaw No, no, I'll allow nothing of the sort!Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines."
-- He passed his hand through the space in which the machine had been.
-- "The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The shores of North Inlet were as thickly wooded as those of the southern anchorage, but the space was longer and narrower and more like, what in truth it was, the estuary of a river.
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