Narrow

(noun.) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water.

(verb.) make or become more narrow or restricted; 'The selection was narrowed'; 'The road narrowed'.

(adj.) limited in size or scope; 'the narrow sense of a word' .

(adj.) not wide; 'a narrow bridge'; 'a narrow line across the page' .

(adj.) very limited in degree; 'won by a narrow margin'; 'a narrow escape' .

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• It may be questioned whether some of the present pedagogical interest in the matter of values of studies is not either excessive or else too narrow. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I will answer for it that we shall find no inconvenience from narrow roads on Wednesday. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A fog narrowed our horizon to about a quarter of a mile, and the misty veil, cold and dense, enveloped sky and sea in equal obscurity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And the shelter was still there: Lydgate had accepted his narrowed lot with sad resignation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Our inquiry has already narrowed down to that. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In a still narrower sense the truth of the Preacher's declaration is apparent:-- In an address before the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1885, the late Prof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• An upper floor was dedicated to Newland, and the two women squeezed themselves into narrower quarters below. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His home, in such another street as the first, saving that it was narrower, was over a little shop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The room was darkening to his sight; the world was narrowing around him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• There was a narrowing up in the mountain, between the National and Confederate armies, through which a stream, a wagon road and a railroad ran. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Now my fate is all narrowing down to a point. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Themistocles insisted with all his force on fighting in the narrows of Salamis. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Up the far slope and into the timber where it narrows. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But we will go separately and riding much and then be together where it narrows above. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Where we drove I neither knew then nor have ever known since, but we appeared to seek out the narrowest and worst streets in London. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I shall go and lose myself among the narrowest streets I can find, and not stop till we come to the very out-of-the-wayest house I can set eyes on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Mrs. Nunsuch went and searched till she found a fragment of the narrowest red ribbon, which she took downstairs and tied round the neck of the image. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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