tropic是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 回归线,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:
-- She made rapid progress, and passed the Tropic of Cancer on the second of September at 5 A. M.The weather now began to change, and the atmosphere became damp and heavy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The Tankadere entered the Straits of Fo-Kien, which separate the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast, in the small hours of the night, and crossed the Tropic of Cancer.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Years after, in a tropic noon, he remembered the freshness of her wind-cooled cheeks.
-- Now, no less passionately, he awoke to the ship, the mysterious sea, the presence of Leora, and he cried to her, in the warm tropic winter dusk: "Sweet, this is only the first of our big hikes!Pretty soon, if I'm successful in St. Hubert, I'll begin to count in science, and we'll go abroad, to your France and England and Italy and everywhere!"
-- She lay on the coverlet of her berth, in the tropic languidness, a slight figure in a frivolous nightgown.
-- While Leora listened from the back of the room, Martin addressed them, not unaware of the spectacle of little Mart Arrowsmith of Elk Mills taken seriously by the rulers of a tropic isle headed by a Sir Somebody.
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:
-- "He was third mate on the Tropic Bird.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Bathsheba was far from dreaming that the dark and silent shape upon which she had so carelessly thrown a seed was a hotbed of tropic intensity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits of Magellan opened less than seven hundred miles to the south.
-- The 20th of July, the tropic of Capricorn was cut by 105d of longitude, and the 27th of the same month we crossed the Equator on the 110th meridian.
-- The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas.
-- At three o'clock in the morning of the 26th of November the Nautilus crossed the tropic of Cancer at 172脗掳 long.
-- After having crossed the tropic of Capricorn in 135脗掳 longitude, it sailed W.N.W., making again for the tropical zone.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.
-- "I hope ye'll have fine weather now, so that Captain Ahab may soon be moving among ye a pleasant sun is all he needs, and ye'll have plenty of them in the tropic voyage ye go.
-- For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and your bill of fare is immutable.
-- Now those noble golden coins of South America are as medals of the sun and tropic token-pieces.
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