cape是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 海角, 岬,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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Even when he swam thousands of miles out of the Pacific and got to a place called Cape Corrientes (that was when he was coming back from Gough's Island), he found a few hundred mangy seals on a rock and they told him that men came there too.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Our mounds are earthen, certainly nor are they seated on the rocks of Cape Diamond; but they stand on that shore which proved so destructive to Dieskau and his army.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the side, covering the rusty hull with paint.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a flat tableland like that above Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, but of reduced proportions; at least so it appeared seen from the islet.
-- This tail formed a regular peninsula, which stretched more than thirty miles into the sea, reckoning from the cape southeast of the island, already mentioned; it curled round, making an open roadstead, which marked out the lower shore of this strangely-formed land.
-- I say by chance, because this is an unimportant island; there is not even a port in which ships could anchor, and it is to be feared that it is situated out of the route usually followed, that is to say, too much to the south for the ships which frequent the archipelagoes of the Pacific, and too much to the north for those which go to Australia by doubling Cape Horn.
-- "Let us give them names, as the Robinsons did, whose story Herbert has often read to me; Providence Bay, Whale Point, Cape Disappointment!"
-- "Port Neb, that would do very well!And Cape Gideon " "I should prefer borrowing names from our country," said the reporter, "which would remind us of America."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Her fashionable dress, cape and hat won her the respect of her aunt, who no longer dared to offer her work as a washerwoman, considering her present position far above it.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I remembered what Silver had said about the current that sets northward along the whole west coast of Treasure Island, and seeing from my position that I was already under its influence, I preferred to leave Haulbowline Head behind me and reserve my strength for an attempt to land upon the kindlier-looking Cape of the Woods.
-- It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
-- Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands a great field of open sea upon the east.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was then three hundred miles from Cape Clear, and, after three days' delay, which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company.
-- One magnificent evening, the 30th July (that is to say, three weeks after our departure), the frigate was abreast of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia.
-- The 3rd of July we were at the opening of the Straits of Magellan, level with Cape Vierges.
-- But Commander Farragut would not take a tortuous passage, but doubled Cape Horn.
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
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