spectacle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (pl. ) 眼镜； 场面， 景象； 奇观， 壮观，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《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little did I expect, however, the spectacle which awaited us when we reached the peninsula of Sneffels, where agglomerations of nature's ruins form a kind of terrible chaos.
-- I had often heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and of Fingal's Cave in one of the Hebrides, but the grand spectacle of a real basaltic formation had never yet come before my eyes.
-- The grandeur of the spectacle was undoubted, as well as its arid and deserted air.
-- At last, when I thought myself at my last gasp, about eleven at night, it being in that region quite dark, we reached the summit of Mount Sneffels!It was in an awful mood of mind, that despite my fatigue, before I descended into the crater which was to shelter us for the night, I paused to behold the sun rise at midnight on the very day of its lowest declension, and enjoyed the spectacle of its ghastly pale rays cast upon the isle which lay sleeping at our feet!
-- I left my granite couch and made one of the party to enjoy a view of the magnificent spectacle which developed itself, panorama-like, at our feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They bore the trying spectacle in silence, until the mysterious visitor was at a safe distance; when they burst into pebbles and yells, and likewise into reviling dances, and in all respects buried the pipe of peace with so many savage ceremonies, that, if Mr Cripples had been the chief of the Cripplewayboo tribe with his war-paint on, they could scarcely have done greater justice to their education.
-- The effect of that upon young Barnacle was to make him a wonderful spectacle of failure and helplessness.
-- Frederick the free, was so humbled, bowed, withered, and faded; William the bond, was so courtly, condescending, and benevolently conscious of a position; that in this regard only, if in no other, the brothers were a spectacle to wonder at.
-- As the spectacle of their approach met his view, he displayed the utmost agitation and despondency of mind; and altogether regardless of Old Nandy, who, making his reverence, stood with his hat in his hand, as he always did in that gracious presence turned about, and hurried in at his own doorway and up the staircase.
-- The speaker's attention was much distracted by the piteous spectacle of Little Dorrit at her father's feet, with her head turned away.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The unusual spectacle of her busy mother rocking com-fortably and reading early in the morning made Jo feel as if some unnatural phenomenon had occurred, for an eclipse, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption would hardly have seemed stranger.
-- This funny spectacle appeared to amuse the sun, for he burst out with such radiance that Jo woke up and roused her sisters by a hearty laugh at Amy's ornament.
-- Buffaloes proved soothing and satisfactory, and in her eagerness to amuse another, Beth forgot herself, and was quite unconscious of her sisters' surprise and delight at the unusual spectacle of Beth talking away to one of the dread-ful boys, against whom she had begged protection.
-- But poor Jo never got her laugh, for she was transfixed upon the threshold by a spectacle which held her there, star-ing with her mouth nearly as wide open as her eyes.
-- Bless you, Beth!What a refreshing spectacle you are, Jo.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
-- And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
-- Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle of singular magnificence saluted us.
-- But agonizing as was the wound of this whale, and an appalling spectacle enough, any way; yet the peculiar horror with which he seemed to inspire the rest of the herd, was owing to a cause which at first the intervening distance obscured from us.
-- For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, they put the bier on the brink of the grave; and the two mourners waited patiently in the damp clay, with a cold rain drizzling down, while the ragged boys whom the spectacle had attracted into the churchyard played a noisy game at hide-and-seek among the tombstones, or varied their amusements by jumping backwards and forwards over the coffin.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a spectacle of warm-blooded humanity.
-- That spectacle pleased Carrie immensely.
-- It was a most satisfactory spectacle indeed, most satisfactory.
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