ancient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 古代的， 古老的， 古式的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The legends of ancient times were even revived.
-- long., I found a small island, recognised in 1801 by Captain Crespo, and marked in the ancient Spanish maps as Rocca de la Plata, the meaning of which is The Silver Rock.
-- We passed along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance of six miles, its undulating line of mountains being occasionally relieved by some ancient ruin.
-- After some minutes' silence he continued:"You were speaking of the opinions of ancient historians upon the dangerous navigation of the Red Sea."
-- It was indeed the ancient abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of Neptune's flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes and Crete.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 8 ON the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the last of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had not then seen a coracle, such as the ancient Britons made, but I have seen one since, and I can give you no fairer idea of Ben Gunn's boat than by saying it was like the first and the worst coracle ever made by man.
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