globe是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 球体, 地球仪; 地球, 世界,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:
-- By an ingenious device he sets before the rescuers a search which compels their circumnavigation of the globe around a certain parallel of the southern hemisphere.
-- This region of the globe is so underlaid with volcanic fires and the volcanoes of recent origin are such insufficient safety valves for the subterranean vapors, that shocks are of frequent occurrence, and are called by the people TREMBLORES.
-- I too quite think with you that we must follow the thirty-seventh parallel round the globe if necessary, however slight our chance of finding him.
-- This kept increasing by degrees till it overspread the entire horizon, kindling the clouds which were faithfully mirrored in the waters as if they were masses of combustible material, beneath, and presented the appearance of an immense globe of fire, the center of which was the OMBU.
-- Think, my friends, if the globe had been only an immense continent, the thousandth part of it would still be unknown to us, even in this nineteenth century.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She tried to read in bed, by an electric globe inside the misty little tent of the mosquito-netting, but there was a tear in the netting and the mosquitoes crept through.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The value of this angle would give the height of Alpha, and consequently that of the pole above the horizon, that is to say, the latitude of the island, since the latitude of a point of the globe is always equal to the height of the pole above the horizon of this point.
-- Formerly, at the first periods of creation, nature employing fire, heaved up the land, but now she entrusts to these microscopic creatures the task of replacing this agent, of which the dynamic power in the interior of the globe has evidently diminished which is proved by the number of volcanoes on the surface of the earth, now actually extinct.
-- "This is my idea: philosophers generally admit that some day our globe will end, or rather that animal and vegetable life will no longer be possible, because of the intense cold to which it will be subjected.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.
-- Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be on the shaded hemisphere of the globe no sentient being save himself; he could fancy them all gone round to the sunny side.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I assured him 'that this whole globe of earth must be at least three times gone round before one of our better female Yahoos could get her breakfast, or a cup to put it in.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- All the matters which compose the globe are in a state of incandescence; even gold, platinum, and the hardest rocks are in a state of fusion.
-- The crust of the vast globe still yielded under the influence of the seething, boiling mass, which was forever at work beneath.
-- These thirty leagues of the crust of the earth weighed upon my shoulders like the globe on the shoulders of Atlas.
-- Higher up still, the first monkey ever seen on the face of the globe clambered, gamboling and playing up the granite hills.
-- The waters flowed over the whole surface of the globe; they boiled; they were volatilized, or turned into vapor; a kind of steam cloud wrapped the whole earth, the globe itself becoming at last nothing but one huge sphere of gas, indescribable in color, between white heat and red, as big and as brilliant as the sun.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It had reached this point when Mr Merdle came home from his daily occupation of causing the British name to be more and more respected in all parts of the civilised globe capable of the appreciation of world-wide commercial enterprise and gigantic combinations of skill and capital.
-- Arthur's father and I lived no further apart, with half the globe between us, than when we were together in this house.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
-- But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below, with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the insertion into it, of the ivory heel.
-- In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Cranmer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.
-- What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish?
-- Be it distinctly recorded here, that the Nantucketers were the first among mankind to harpoon with civilized steel the great Sperm Whale; and that for half a century they were the only people of the whole globe who so harpooned him.
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