curve是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 曲线; v. 弄弯, 成曲线，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the dis-tance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
-- Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit country-side there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
-- A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.
-- In its cold light I saw be-yond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.
-- The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the Ape-man lacked that inward sinuous curve of the back which makes the human figure so graceful.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curve of the broken dome was above his head.
-- The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head.
-- Lit-tle Toomai turned, rustling in the fodder, and watched the curve of his big back against half the stars in heaven, and while he watched he heard, so far away that it sounded no more than a pinhole of noise pricked through the stillness, the 'hoot-toot' of a wild elephant.
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：
-- Clouded cotton stockings, and shoes, on one of the latter of which was a plated spur, completed the costume of the lower extremity of this figure, no curve or angle of which was concealed, but, on the other hand, studiously ex-hibited, through the vanity or simplicity of its owner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a walk of a mile and a half, the shore presented no curve which would permit them to return to the north.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Will the curve please you, sir?"
-- I felt the steel plates tremble at the fastenings of the bolts; its bars bent, its partitions groaned; the windows of the saloon seemed to curve under the pressure of the waters.
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：
-- They drew away from the colliery region, over the curve of the hill, into the purer country of the other side, towards Willey Green.
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