oblong是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 长方形(的)，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Hall's eyes, directed straight before her, saw without seeing the brilliant oblong of the inn door, the road white and vivid, and Huxter's shop-front blistering in the June sun.
-- and he ran obliquely across the oblong towards the yard gates, and vanished.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- S I drew near the house I saw that the light shone from Athe open door of my room; and then I heard coming from out of the darkness at the side of that orange oblong of light, the voice of Montgomery shouting, 'Prendick!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The envelope was of paper as thick as bark; on the oblong yellow paper there was a huge monogram, and the letter smelt of agreeable scent.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the oblong dining-room, the inlaid floor of which had been polished by three of his men the day before, and containing a massive oaken sideboard and a similar extension table, the legs of which were carved in the shape of lion's paws, giving it a pompous appearance, breakfast stood ready for him.
-- The court was held in a large, oblong room.
-- The cell in which Maslova was confined was an oblong room, twenty feet by fifteen.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These lithodomes were oblong shells, suspended in clusters and adhering very tightly to the rocks.
-- The yellow color of its hair was relieved by streaks and regular oblong spots of black, which contrasted with the white of its chest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By Jove, Sir,' returned Mr Chuckster, taking out an oblong snuff-box, the lid whereof was ornamented with a fox's head curiously carved in brass, 'that man is an unfathomable.
-- In pursuance of this resolution, he now drew a little table to his bedside, and arranging the light and a small oblong music-book to the best advantage, took his flute from its box, and began to play most mournfully.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not at the bird, nor at the cat; it was at an oblong package tied in paper, and lying between them.
-- The indistinct summit of the fa脙搂ade was notched and pronged by chimneys here and there, and upon its face were faintly signified the oblong shapes of windows, though only in the upper part.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly light broke at each side of the saloon, through two oblong openings.
-- Watching attentively, I observed that four of them carried on their shoulders an object of an oblong shape.
-- I understood all!This glade was a cemetery, this hole a tomb, this oblong object the body of the man who had died in the night!The Captain and his men had come to bury their companion in this general resting-place, at the bottom of this inaccessible ocean!
-- "My worthy Ned," I answered, "to the poet, a pearl is a tear of the sea; to the Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; to the ladies, it is a jewel of an oblong shape, of a brilliancy of mother-of-pearl substance, which they wear on their fingers, their necks, or their ears; for the chemist it is a mixture of phosphate and carbonate of lime, with a little gelatine; and lastly, for naturalists, it is simply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces the mother-of-pearl amongst certain bivalves."
-- This dugong, which also bears the name of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong body terminated in a lengthened tail, and its lateral fins in perfect fingers.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meagre houses stood down one side, there was a hosiery factory, a great blank with myriad oblong windows, at the end, a street of little shops with flagstone pavement down the other side, and, for a crowning monument, the public baths, of new red brick, with a clock-tower.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
-- Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose some twenty or more feet out of the water the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered spray still higher into the air.
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