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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The luminous part traced on the sea an immense oval, much elongated, the centre of which condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering brilliancy died out by successive gradations.
-- Who could paint the effects of the light through those transparent sheets of water, and the softness of the successive gradations from the lower to the superior strata of the ocean?
-- The solar rays seemed to be extinguished by successive gradations, until its vague transparency became nothing more than drowned light.
-- Nothing more until the moment when, like lightning, I saw the undaunted Captain hanging on to one of the creature's fins, struggling, as it were, hand to hand with the monster, and dealing successive blows at his enemy, yet still unable to give a decisive one.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moment had come, and Cyrus Harding knelt on the sand, and with little wooden pegs, which he stuck into the sand, he began to mark the successive diminutions of the stick's shadow.
-- Then coal and ore were arranged in heaps and in successive layers, as the charcoal- burner does with the wood which he wishes to carbonize.
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