barometer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 气压计, 晴雨表，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted sleet of the storm from which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But when the barometer rises, on the contrary, which is the case now, all we need expect is a few violent blasts.
-- For the last two days the barometer has been falling in a most ominous manner, and is now at 27 degrees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps a common barometer would not have done as well, the atmospheric pressure being likely to increase in proportion as we descended below the surface of the earth.
-- I am curious to replace the barometer by the manometer."
-- Supposing the learned Icelander's journey ever really to have taken place--there was one simple answer to be made: In the sixteenth century neither the barometer nor the manometer had been invented--how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did reach the centre of the earth?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The barometer fell sensibly, and indicated an extreme extension of the vapours.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The barometer announced a speedy change, the mercury rising and falling capriciously; the sea also, in the south-east, raised long surges which indicated a tempest.
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