latitude是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 纬度; 地区; (言论, 行动的) 自由，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：
-- Then we might have found out the road they had come by taking the exact latitude and longitude, and studying the atmospheric and submarine currents; but with such a postman as a shark, that goes against wind and tide, there's no clew whatever to the starting-point."
-- In a few minutes he had written as follows:7 Juin 1862 trois-mats Britannia Glasgow sombre gonie austral a terre deux matelots capitaine Gr abor contin pr cruel indi jete ce document de longitude et 37 degrees 11" de latitude Portez-leur secours perdus.
-- [7th of June, 1862 three-mast BRITANNIA Glasgow]foundered gonie southernon the coast two sailors GrCaptain landedcontin pr cruel indi thrown this document in longitudeand 37 degrees 11" latitude Bring them assistance lostJust at that moment one of the sailors came to inform the captain that they were about entering the Firth of Clyde, and to ask what were his orders.
-- With the latitude alone, I would engage to go right to the place where the wreck happened."
-- They have thrown this document into the sea, in longitude and latitude 37 degrees 11".
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- N February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by Ocollision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 that is eleven months and four days after my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gen-tleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3' S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The speech and entry had not seemed to be at all an abrupt beginning to the maltster, introductory matter being often omitted in this neighbourhood, both from word and deed, and the maltster having the same latitude allowed him, did not hurry to reply.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Put the case that a woman, under such circumstances as you have mentioned, held her child concealed, and was obliged to communicate the fact to her legal adviser, on his representing to her that he must know, with an eye to the latitude of his defence, how the fact stood about that child.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south.
-- We were now in the latitude of 30 degrees south; there were about fifty men in the ship; and here I met anoldcomrade of mine, one Peter Williams, who gave me a good character to the captain.
-- The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, driven north-eastward to the latitude of 44 de-grees, and longitude of 143.
-- About an hour before we saw the pirates I had taken an observation, and found we were in the latitude of 46 N. and longitude of 183.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "At the place where we now are, under the latitude of Iceland, the terrestrial depth is about fifteen hundred and eighty-three leagues."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Give some much younger woman the latitude as to dress that she has, being married; and we would see about that, my dear!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us.
-- It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.
-- "This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have been spent in each month in every district, and the two others to show the number of days in which whales, sperm or right, have been seen."
-- Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year, say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true.
-- 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.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; par-ticularly, that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate; our principal trading being upon the coast, from latitude of 15 degrees north even to the line itself.
-- But as I had no instruments to take an observation to know what latitude we were in, and not exactly knowing, or at least remember-ing, what latitude they were in, I knew not where to look for them, or when to stand off to sea towards them; otherwise I might now easily have found some of these islands.
-- But our voyage was other-wise determined; for, being in the latitude of twelve degrees eighteen minutes, a second storm came upon us, which carried us away with the same impetuosity westward, and drove us so out of the way of all human commerce, that, had all our lives been saved as to the sea, we were rather in danger of being devoured by savages than ever returning to our own country.
-- It was by my account the 30th of September, when, in the manner as above said, I first set foot upon this horrid island; when the sun, being to us in its autumnal equinox, was almost over my head; for I reckoned myself, by observation, to be in the latitude of nine degrees twenty-two minutes north of the line.
-- But all this while I made no allowance for the dangers of such an undertaking, and how I might fall into the hands of savages, and perhaps such as I might have reason to think far worse than the lions and tigers of Africa: that if I once came in their power, I should run a hazard of more than a thousand to one of being killed, and perhaps of being eat-en; for I had heard that the people of the Caribbean coast were cannibals or man-eaters, and I knew by the latitude that I could not be far from that shore.
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