center是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 中心， 中央， 中间vt. 集中vi. 以…为中心，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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over all this immense space the ocean alone was visible the island occupied the center of a circumference which appeared to be infinite.
-- From the northeast to the southwest the coast was rounded, like the flattened cranium of an animal, rising again, forming a sort of protuberance which did not give any particular shape to this part of the island, of which the center was occupied by the volcano.
-- This lake was only, in short, an immense center basin, which was filled by degrees by the creek, and its waters must necessarily pass to the sea by some fall.
-- In fact, the Catalan method, properly so called, requires the construction of kilns and crucibles, in which the ore and the coal, placed in alternate layers, are transformed and reduced, But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions, and wished simply to form, with the ore and the coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would direct the wind from his bellows.
-- The lake might be considered as a large center basin, which was filled by the water from the Red Creek.
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：
-- While the common herd stood aloof, in deference to the quarters of Webb, the figure we have described stalked into the center of the domestics, freely expressing his censures or commendations on the merits of the horses, as by chance they displeased or satisfied his judgment.
-- The rock proved softer on each side of us, and so they left the center of the river bare and dry, first working out these two little holes for us to hide in.'
-- In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.
-- Still his bullets fell in the center of the crouching party.
-- 'Not yet, not yet,' returned the agitated but undaunted Heyward: 'the sound came from the center of the island, and it has been produced by the sight of their dead com-panions.
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