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《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
-- Unquestionably they must be interesting to a naturalist; but for me they have a far greater charm, for I have collected them all with my own hand, and there is not a sea on the face of the globe which has escaped my researches."
-- THE BLACK RIVERThe portion of the terrestrial globe which is covered by water is estimated at upwards of eighty millions of acres.
-- Science has decided on the globe the direction of five principal currents: one in the North Atlantic, a second in the South, a third in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean.
-- Further on was a portion of the globe he might not trample upon.
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:
-- Near the second level-crossing, that went over many bright rails, was a farm belonging to the collieries, and a great round globe of iron, a disused boiler, huge and rusty and perfectly round, stood silently in a paddock by the road.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Lastly, whatever may be the cause, our globe will become cold some day, but this cold will only operate gradually.
-- I have often thought of all these things, my friends, and I seriously believe that the aspect of our globe will some day be completely changed; that by the raising of new continents the sea will cover the old, and that, in future ages, a Columbus will go to discover the islands of Chimborazo, of the Himalayas, or of Mont Blanc, remains of a submerged America, Asia, and Europe.
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