expedition是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 远征, 探险(队) , 考察(队),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 United States were the first in the field; and in New York they made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwhal.
-- As a rule, I never asked him if it were convenient for him or not to follow me in my travels; but this time the expedition in question might be prolonged, and the enterprise might be hazardous in pursuit of an animal capable of sinking a frigate as easily as a nutshell.
-- Now I thought our expedition was at an end, and that we should never again see the extraordinary animal.
-- During the expedition into Egypt, your General Bonaparte discovered traces of the works in the Desert of Suez; and, surprised by the tide, he nearly perished before regaining Hadjaroth, at the very place where Moses had encamped three thousand years before him."
-- It is a faithful narrative of this incredible expedition in an element inaccessible to man, but to which Progress will one day open a road.
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