vertical是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 垂直的 n. 垂直线，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：
-- But this state of things was of short duration; before long the cataracts of the sky burst forth, and came down in vertical streams.
-- The next thing was to descend the vertical wall to the slope below, and this would have been impracticable, but that Robert had brought the flax rope, which was now unrolled and fixed to a projecting point of rock, the end hanging over.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An almost vertical streak of smoke went up from it into the sky.
-- Though they evidently felt ashamed of themselves, every now and then I would come upon one or another run-ning on toes and finger-tips, and quite unable to recover the vertical attitude.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is sufficient to throw out the lightest article to produce a difference in its vertical position.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A meditation on the obvious inference was indulged in by all, and during its continuance each directed his vision into the ashpit, which glowed like a desert in the tropics under a vertical sun, shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light, partly from the depth of the subject discussed.
-- They were carpenters lifting a post into a vertical position within the parapet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement."
-- Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I can also make the Nautilus rise and sink, and sink and rise, by a vertical movement by means of two inclined planes fastened to its sides, opposite the centre of flotation, planes that move in every direction, and that are worked by powerful levers from the interior.
-- Some zoophytes had been fished up by the chain of the nets; they were for the most part beautiful phyctallines, belonging to the actinidian family, and among other species the phyctalis protexta, peculiar to that part of the ocean, with a little cylindrical trunk, ornamented With vertical lines, speckled with red dots, crowning a marvellous blossoming of tentacles.
-- The Nautilus began to sink, following a vertical line, for its screw communicated no motion to it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wall of the fjord, like nearly the whole of the peninsula, consisted of a series of vertical columns, in height about thirty feet.
-- This long vertical tube, which ends at the bottom of the crater of Sneffels, ceases here just about on a level with the sea."
-- I don't think we have as yet done much in a vertical way."
-- He must have been in expectation of one of two things; either that a vertical well was about to open under his feet, and thus allow him to continue his descent, or that some insurmountable obstacle would compel us to stop and go back by the road we had so long traveled.
-- I wish to be able on our return to the upper regions to make a map of our journey, a kind of vertical section of the globe, which will be, as it were, the profile of the expedition."
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded "sheaves," or layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the "heart," or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese.
-- You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm Whale, the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane to the water; you observe that the lower part of that front slopes considerably backwards, so as to furnish more of a retreat for the long socket which receives the boom-like lower jaw; you observe that the mouth is entirely under the head, much in the same way, indeed, as though your own mouth were entirely under your chin.
-- Regarding the Sperm Whale's head as a solid oblong, you may, on an inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins,* whereof the lower is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale.
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