mile是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 英里, 哩, 海里,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:
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- There, a mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves.
-- But the shot passed some feet above the cetacean, which was half a mile off.
-- "Behind the steersman's cage is placed a powerful electric reflector, the rays from which light up the sea for half a mile in front."
-- The sea was distinctly visible for a mile all round the Nautilus.
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:
-- He had promised to walk with her down the long, lonely mile of drive, and she wanted this.
-- It was another mile before they came upon Gudrun and Gerald on the steep up-climb, beside the pink, half-buried shrine.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At any rate, whatever were my wanderings, the clock chimed twelve as I entered the house; and that gave exactly an hour for every mile of the usual way from Wuthering Heights.
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