circumference是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 圆周, 圆周长度，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：
-- This OMBU measured in height a hundred feet, and covered with its shadow a circumference of one hundred and twenty yards.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on an-other, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are three hundred and sixty degrees on the circumference of the earth; and these three hundred and sixty degrees, multiplied by four minutes, gives precisely twenty-four hours that is, the day unconsciously gained.
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.
-- Cyrus Harding reflected a few minutes; he attentively observed the perimeter of the island, taking into consideration the height at which he was placed; then, "My friends," said he, "I do not think I am mistaken in giving to the shore of the island a circumference of more than a hundred miles."
-- This extent of water, of a circumference of nearly seven miles and an area of two hundred and fifty acres, reposed in a border of diversified trees.
-- He measured, very exactly, the opening of this angle on a circumference which he divided into 360 equal parts.
-- At sunrise all were on the shore at the extremity of the promontory, and their gaze was directed towards the horizon, of which two-thirds of the circumference were visible.
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：
-- A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a seg-ment for his portion.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy pulled and jerkedvigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into hereyes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to these calculations, the mass of ice surrounding the southern pole forms a vast cap, the circumference of which must be, at least, 2,500 miles.
-- It was describing a spiral, the circumference of which was lessening by degrees, and the boat, which was still fastened to its side, was carried along with giddy speed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- '8th, That the said man-mountain shall, in two moons' time, deliver in an exact survey of the circumference of our dominions, by a computation of his own paces round the coast.
-- It is in length three glomglungs (which make about fifty-four English miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king's order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly.
-- The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred 209yards distant from the centre.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Without counting that if a vertical descent of sixteen leagues costs us a horizontal of eighty- five, we shall have to go about eight thousand leagues to the southeast, and we must therefore come out somewhere in the circumference long before we can hope to reach the centre."
-- They take in a vast circumference of the ocean.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself!The great God absolute!The centre and circumference of all democracy!His omnipresence, our divine equality!
-- It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were it not that as we advanced into the herd, our whale's way greatly diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from the circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning.
-- Thy hand! Met!True art thou, lad, as the circumference to its centre.
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