pacific是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 和平的 n. 太平洋，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 route is generally preferred by steamers on their way to the Pacific Ocean.
-- "And would you recommence your search in the Pampas, when you have the certainty that the shipwreck of the BRITANNIA neither occurred on the coasts of the Pacific nor the Atlantic?"
-- He pointed out that Captain Grant, on leaving the coast of Peru to return to Europe, might have been carried away with his disabled ship by the southern currents of the Pacific right to the shores of Australia, and his hypotheses were so ingenious and his deductions so subtle that even the matter-of-fact John Mangles, a difficult judge, and most unlikely to be led away by any flights of imagination, was completely satisfied.
-- "Could a quick ship make the distance in a month over that part of the Pacific Ocean which lies between America and Australia?"
-- "That's to say," replied Lady Helena, "that between the 31st of May and the 27th of June—""Captain Grant could have crossed the Pacific and found himself in the Indian Ocean."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong, and it could not sail until the latter reached Yokohama; and if Mr. Fogg was twenty-four hours late on reaching Yokohama, this time would no doubt be easily regained in the voyage of twenty-two days across the Pacific.
-- The difficulty was, how to traverse the four thousand seven hundred miles of the Pacific which lay between Japan and the New World.
-- "The devil!I should so like to cross the Pacific with you!"
-- DURING WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEANWhat happened when the pilot-boat came in sight of Shanghai will be easily guessed.
-- The steamer which was about to depart from Yokohama to San Francisco belonged to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and was named the General Grant.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Pacific upon Balboa's gaze.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyag-es which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On arriving before the battlements, I found the Union Jack flying and the drawbridge up; but undeterred by this show of defiance and resistance, I rang at the gate, and was admitted in a most pacific manner by the Aged.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he continent, of which this kingdom is apart, extends Titself, as I have reason to believe, eastward, to that un-known tract of America westward of California; and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred and fifty miles from Lagado; where there is a good port, and much commerce with the great island of Luggnagg, situated to the north-west about 29 degrees north latitude, and 140 longitude.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle bore them like a man who has been in the wrong--that is, with concentrated and suppressed anger; Hans, with all the resignation of his pacific character; and I--I confess that I did nothing but complain, and despair.
-- That dagger had never been in the possession of the pacific and taciturn Hans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to resenting any affront from her brother, he would have felt, even if he had not naturally been of a most pacific disposition, that to wag his tongue or lift his hand against that sacred gentleman would be an unhallowed act.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be detained."
-- Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
-- No possible endeavor then could enable her commander to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
-- First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket, was cruising in the Pacific Ocean.
-- Being returned home at last, Captain Pollard once more sailed for the Pacific in command of another ship, but the gods shipwrecked him again upon unknown rocks and breakers; for the second time his ship was utterly lost, and forthwith forswearing the sea, he has never tempted it since.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began to feel the appetite that had been wanting before he had reached the office, and decided before going out to the park to meet Carrie to drop in at the Grand Pacific and have a pot of coffee and some rolls.
-- "He's the man that runs the Grand Pacific in Chicago."
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