circular是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 圆(形) 的, 环形的; 循环的n. 传单, 通报,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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Have you read the last circular in the Journal de St. Petersbourg?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows.
-- Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.
-- Below deck was a square cabin, of which the walls bulged out in the form of cots, above a circular divan; in the centre was a table provided with a swinging lamp.
-- The massive walking-beam rose and fell above the deck; at one end a piston-rod worked up and down; and at the other was a connecting-rod which, in changing the rectilinear motion to a circular one, was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was he who wrote the circular letter sent to all members: Brother Males and Shemales: Are you coming to the Health Bee?
-- As he bent over the brass tube and focused the objective, into the gray-lavender circular field of vision rose to existence the grape-like clusters of staphylococcus germs, purple dots against the blank plane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 211It so happened that this chair was opposite a narrow passage,which ended in the little circular room where I had seen UriahHeep's pale face looking out of window.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The dream must be borne with, and Mr. Knightley must take his seat with the rest round the large modern circular ta-ble which Emma had introduced at Hartfield, and which none but Emma could have had power to place there and persuade her father to use, instead of the small-sized Pem-broke, on which two of his daily meals had, for forty years been crowded.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.
-- Cainy Ball a cheery-faced young lad, with a small circular orifice by way of mouth, advanced and deposited two others, and retired as he was bidden.
-- The sheep-washing pool was a perfectly circular basin of brickwork in the meadows, full of the clearest water.
-- Standing in the centre, the sky overhead was met by a circular horizon of fern: this grew nearly to the bottom of the slope and then abruptly ceased.
-- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth; half of it running down the side of the flagon, and half of what reached his mouth running down outside his throat, and half of what ran in going the wrong way, and being coughed and sneezed around the persons of the gathered reapers in the form of a cider fog, which for a moment hung in the sunny air like a small exhalation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This piece of water (with an island in the middle which might have been the salad for supper) was of a circular form, and he had constructed a fountain in it, which, when you set a little mill going and took a cork out of a pipe, played to that powerful extent that it made the back of your hand quite wet.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He told me 'that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to be born in a family, with a red circular spot in the forehead, directly over the left eye- brow, which was an infallible mark that it should never die.'
-- Their mangers were placed circular in the middle of the room, and divided into several partitions, round which they sat on their haunches, 291upon bosses of straw.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This church exhibited nothing remarkable in itself; in fact, the worthy Professor had only been attracted to it by one circumstance, which was, that its rather elevated steeple started from a circular platform, after which there was an exterior staircase, which wound round to the very summit.
-- I looked upwards, and saw only the upper orifice of the cone, which served as a circular frame to a very small portion of the sky--a portion which seemed to me singularly beautiful.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The day had greyed over; the small blue sky that had poised low on its circular rims of haze was closed in again, the lid was down, there was a raw coldness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.
-- A faithful dog was represented as flying at the legs of the friendly visitor, from the threshold; and a circular pigeon-house, enveloped in a cloud of pigeons, arose from behind the garden-paling.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the central blinds of bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings.
-- Attached to this back-bone, for something less than a third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs which once enclosed his vitals.
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