successive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 接连的， 连续的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well, then, since that is the case, my advice is not to let your imagination rely on successive and contradictory evidence.
-- He pondered his three successive interpretations, all of which had proved false.
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：
-- Every successive struggle brought them nearer to the verge, where Duncan perceived the final and conquering ef-fort must be made.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I sat here listening on two successive evenings, for two hours each time and of course I was able to learn something, what do you think?'
-- He came here on two successive evenings to see Sofya Semyonovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Mr.Micawber, in his trouble, this warmth, on the part of a stranger,was so extremely touching, that he could only say on the occasionof each successive shake, 'My dear sir, you overpower me!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sky was now filled with an incessant light, frequent repetition melting into complete continuity, as an unbroken sound results from the successive strokes on a gong.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he passes through all these successive initiations, and breaks out of his sheath, the horizons of life widen around him, and at length he grasps the plan of society with the different human strata of which it is composed.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our little voyages of discovery were often prolonged by the successive objects that presented themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His personal recognition of each successive client was comprised in a nod, and in his settling his hat a little easier on his head with both hands, and then tightening the post-office, and putting his hands in his pockets.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall drive there in my carriage at two o'clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by 275four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This mighty turf pit, measured from the bottom of certain ravines, is often not less than seventy feet deep, and presents to the eye the view of successive layers of black burned-up rocky detritus, separated by thin streaks of porous sandstone.
-- "I am perfectly certain that this gallery through successive layers of coal was not cut by the hand of man.
-- Our constant and successive descents had taken us quite thirty leagues into the interior of the earth, that is to say that there were above us thirty leagues, nearly a hundred miles, of rocks, and oceans, and continents, and towns, to say nothing of living inhabitants.
-- In addition, the whole soil was covered by a vast quantity of stony relics, having the appearance of flints worn by the action of the waves, and lying in successive layers one above the other.
-- In truth, it was a surprising spectacle, the successive remains of generations and generations of men and animals confounded together in one vast cemetery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is probable that both these representations were of ex post facto origin; the young gentleman (whose expressive name was Sparkler) being monomaniacal in offering marriage to all manner of undesirable young ladies, and in remarking of every successive young lady to whom he tendered a matrimonial proposal that she was 'a doosed fine gal well educated too with no biggodd nonsense about her.'
-- Unwilling, even under this discomfiture, to resign the ingrate and leave her hopeless, in case of her better dispositions obtaining the mastery over the darker side of her character, Mr Meagles, for six successive days, published a discreetly covert advertisement in the morning papers, to the effect that if a certain young person who had lately left home without reflection, would at any time apply to his address at Twickenham, everything would be as it had been before, and no reproaches need be apprehended.
-- The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thickenThe shady waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office, where he passed a good deal of time in company with various troublesome Convicts who were under sentence to be broken alive on that wheel, had afforded Arthur Clennam ample leisure, in three or four successive days, to exhaust the subject of his late glimpse of Miss Wade and Tattycoram.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when, after spending his uniform interval there for several successive nights without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence, his unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet, every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew.
-- Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe, and where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing commotion on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles; where the beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a charge of crowned centaurs?
-- And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have over-arched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.
-- And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles of the sea combined.
-- And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a preliminary cruise, Ahab, all other whaling waters swept seemed to have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely there; now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a vessel had been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually encountered Moby Dick; and now that all his successive meetings with various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned against; now it was that there lurked a something in the old man's eyes, which it was hardly sufferable for feeble souls to see.
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