cable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缆, 索, 电缆 v. 拍电报，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：
-- He had hooked himself now, as the tremendous jerk he gave the cable proved, and the sailors began to haul in the monster by means of tackle attached to the mainyard.
-- The cable strained violently, and every half hour John had to take in a fathom to ease it.
-- His cable might break, or his anchor lose its hold, and in either case the danger was imminent.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Pendown sailed amiably for home, and from Avonmouth came to Surgeon General Inchcape Jones a cable announcing that the ship was held, that others of the crew had died .
-- Two days before the cable came, a Blackwater lighterman had been smitten by an unknown ill, very unpleasant, with delirium and buboes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shall go there one day,and find them blundering through half the nautical terms inYoung's Dictionary, apropos of the "Nancy" having run down the"Sarah Jane," or Mr. Peggotty and the Yarmouth boatmen havingput off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the "Nelson"Indiaman in distress; and you shall go there another day, and findthem deep in the evidence, pro and con., respecting a clergymanwho has misbehaved himself; and you shall find the judge in thenautical case, the advocate in the clergyman's case, or contrariwise.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked 55towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspec-tive glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron.
-- The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
-- I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same rea-son I twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the extremities into a hook.
-- I seized a large man of war, tied a cable to the prow, and, lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself, put my clothes (together with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and, drawing it after me, between wading and swimming arrived at the royal port of Blefuscu, where the people had long expected me: they lent me two guides to direct me to the capital city, which is of the same name.
-- The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hol-low vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child's waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Independently of the sacks of ballast, to which the cords of the net were fastened, the car was held by a strong cable passed through a ring in the pavement.
-- This vegetable cable was fastened to the after-part of the raft, and the sailor held it in his hand while Herbert, pushing off the raft with a long pole, kept it in the current.
-- The hunters, armed with sticks, could have killed them easily, but they were not guilty of such useless massacre, as it was important not to frighten the seals, who were lying on the sand several cable lengths off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these strings intertwining made Pancks a very cable of anchorage that night.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters four yarns is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures.
-- Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut.
-- When first severed, the head is dropped astern and held there by a cable till the body is stripped.
-- All honor to the Enderbies, therefore, whose house, I think, exists to the present day; though doubtless the original Samuel must long ago have slipped his cable for the great South Sea of the other world.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cutting the great cable into pieces, such as I could move, I got two cables and a hawser on shore, with all the ironwork I could get; and having cut down the spritsail-yard, and the mizzen- yard, and everything I could, to make a large raft, I loaded it with all these heavy goods, and came away.
-- As for myself, it was no great harm, for I was near the shore; but as to my cargo, it was a great part of it lost, especially the iron, which I expected would have been of great use to me; however, when the tide was out, I got most of the pieces of the cable ashore, and some of the iron, though with infi-nite labour; for I was fain to dip for it into the water, a work which fatigued me very much.
-- Then I took the pieces of cable which I had cut in the ship, and laid them in rows, one upon another, within the circle, between these two rows of stakes, up to the top, placing oth-er stakes in the inside, leaning against them, about two feet and a half high, like a spur to a post; and this fence was so strong, that neither man nor beast could get into it or over it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were coaches and crowded cable cars.
-- There were early lights in the cable cars, whose usual clatter was reduced by the mantle about the wheels.
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