bulk是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 容量; 体积; 大块,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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mrs. Hall took his dinner in to him, he was already so absorbed in his work, pouring little drops out of the bottles into test-tubes, that he did not hear her until she had swept away the bulk of the straw and put the tray on the table, with some little emphasis perhaps, seeing the state that the floor was in.
-- The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before he spoke again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- and the grey-faced creature ap-peared behind me and jammed his huge bulk into the cleft.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sun was up but was still hid from me behind the great bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended almost to the sea in formidable cliffs.
-- We left a good stock of powder and shot, the bulk of the salt goat, a few medicines, and some other necessaries, tools, clothing, a spare sail, a fathom or two of rope, and by the particular desire of the doctor, a handsome present of tobacco.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If we want to sink 3,000 feet, I should keep account of the reduction of bulk under a pressure equal to that of a column of water of a thousand feet.
-- Their bulk and power increased with the depth of the water.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her bulk seemed hunched in the chair, her fair hair hung slack over her ears.
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