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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no rail; but a metallic cable charged with electricity from the deck communicating with the platform.
-- It was on the 17th of May, about 500 miles from Heart's Content, at a depth of more than 1,400 fathoms, that I saw the electric cable lying on the bottom.
-- The electricians on board resolved to cut the cable before fishing it up, and at eleven o'clock at night they had recovered the damaged part.
-- Cyrus Field, the bold promoter of the enterprise, as he had sunk all his own fortune, set a new subscription on foot, which was at once answered, and another cable was constructed on better principles.
-- Several times in unrolling the cable they observed that nails had recently been forced into it, evidently with the motive of destroying it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the ropes which fastened the barrels was partly unlashed and used as a cable to unite the floating apparatus with the canoe.
-- Below this fall the engineer fixed a cylinder with paddles, which was joined on the exterior with a strong cable rolled on a wheel, supporting a basket.
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