December是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 十二月，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：
-- Hitherto the yacht had been favored by a strong westerly breeze, but now there were evident signs that a calm was impending, and on the 13th of December the wind fell entirely; as the sailors say, there was not enough to fill a cap.
-- In this alarming situation and amid dreadful alternations of hope and despair, the 12th of December passed away, and the ensuing night, John Mangles never left his post, not even to take food.
-- It will be remembered that on the night of the 29th or 30th of last December there was an accident at Camden Bridge, five miles beyond the station at Castlemaine, on the railway from Melbourne to Sandhurst.
-- He coasted along for several days, and on the 17th of December his ships penetrated into a large bay, which, terminating in a narrow strait, separated the two islands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So much more wicked and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the vio-lently drowned by night, and prisoners were shot in lines and squares under the southern wintry sun.
-- These occupations brought her round to the December month, wherein her father walked among the terrors with a steady head.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 17,015 and 18,038, from December 5, 1863, and June 7, 1864, acted in direct contravention of the intent of the law T...Act 18, and the note to Act 36.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 16th of December was the seventy-fifth day since Phileas Fogg's departure from London, and the Henrietta had not yet been seriously delayed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 349 The winter season set in with the month of June, which corresponds with the month of December in the Northern Hemisphere.
-- The next day, the 30th of June, the day which corresponds to the 31st of December in the northern year, was a Friday.
-- By the end of the first fortnight of December these works were finished, and Prospect Heights that is to say, a sort of irregular pentagon, having a perimeter of nearly four miles, surrounded by a liquid belt was completely protected from depredators of every description.
-- The cart might then be driven there, and towards the end of December they tried the onagers for the first time.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across one of his fields on a certain December morning sunny and exceedingly mild might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these.
-- Underneath this was now inscribed in new letters: In the Same Grave lieThe Remains of the aforesaidFrancis Troy,Who died December 24th, 18 ,Aged 26 years.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It crossed the equator December 1, in 142脗掳 long.
-- After leaving these charming islands protected by the French flag, from the 4th to the 11th of December the Nautilus sailed over about 2,000 miles.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We then set sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of Madagascar; but having got northward of that island, and to about five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed to blow a constant equal gale between the north and west, from the beginning of December to the begin-ning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater violence, and more westerly than usual, continuing 97so for twenty days together: during which time, we were driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three degrees northward of the line, as our captain found by an observation he took the 2nd of May, at which time the wind ceased, and it was a perfect calm, whereat I was not a little rejoiced.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within.
-- The first of December was a wintry day indeed to them, for a bitter wind blew, snow fell fast, and the year seemed getting ready for its death.
-- DECEMBER My Precious Betsey, As this is to be a scribble-scrabble letter, I direct it to you, for it may amuse you, and give you some idea of my goings on, for though quiet, they are rather amusing, for which, oh, be joyful!After what Amy would call Herculaneum efforts, in the way of mental and moral agriculture, my young ideas begin to shoot and my little twigs to bend as I could wish.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY, NATHAN COLEMAN, WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY, AND SAMUEL GLEIG, Forming one of the boats' crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- DECEMBER 10.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Somehow the swaying of some dead branches of trees across the way brought back the picture with which she was familiar when she looked from their front window in December days at home.
-- There was always an answer, always the December days threatened.
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