engineering是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 工程学，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dry-goods stores were not down among the count-ing-houses, banks, and wholesale warerooms, where gentlemen most do congregate, but Jo found herself in that part of the city before she did a single errand, loiter-ing along as if waiting for someone, examining engineering instruments in one window and samples of wool in anoth-er, with most unfeminine interest, tumbling over barrels, being half-smothered by descending bales, and hustled un-ceremoniously by busy men who looked as if they wondered 'how the deuce she got there'.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rhett pulled the carriage overto the curb, and Scarlett looked curiously at the sweating black men, picks and shovels over their shoulders, shepherdedalong by an officer and a squad of men wearing the insignia of the engineering corps.
-- They had cut the railroad four miles below the town, but they had been beaten off by theConfederate cavalry; and the engineering corps, sweating in the broiling sun, had repaired the line.
-- The engineering corps was working like mad, repairing the line, but it wouldtake some time because the Yankees had torn up the crossties, made bonfires of them, laid the wrenched-up rails acrossthem until they were red hot and then twisted them around telegraph poles until they looked like giant corkscrews.
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