specific是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明确的， 具体的； 特定的， 特有的，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：
-- By a curious effect of specific gravity, these blocks, lighter than water, fled, so to speak, to the vault of the tunnel, that increased in thickness at the top in proportion as it diminished at the base.
-- By his orders the vessel was lightened, that is to say, raised from the ice-bed by a change of specific gravity.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their business there was of a private nature, and had something to do with the specific gravity of their beer.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One perhaps was ursine chiefly, another feline chiefly, another bovine chiefly; but each was tainted with other creatures, a kind of generalised ani-malism appearing through the specific dispositions.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not,' said Mr.Micawber, 'regret my hair, and I may have been de- prived of itfor a specific purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Descending from the sublime when she had reached this point, to the details of common life, Mrs Jarley remarked that with reference to salary she could pledge herself to no specific sum until she had sufficiently tested Nell's abilities, and narrowly watched her in the performance of her duties.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here is before you, gentlemen of the jury, a crime characteristic, if I may so express myself, of the end of our century, bearing, as it were, all the specific features of the first symptoms of decomposition, to which those elements of our society, which are exposed, as it were, to the more scorching rays of that process, are subject."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert said, "Certainly," but looked as if there were no specific consolation in this, and remained perplexed and dismayed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This I have since often known to have been taken with success, and do here freely recommend it to my countrymen for the public good, as an admirable specific against all diseases produced by reple-tion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That,' added Mr Plornish, dwelling on the subject with a slow thoughtfulness that appeared to have no connection with any specific object, and to lead him nowhere, 'that is about what they are, you may believe me or not, as you think proper.'
-- That he had a specific object Clennam could not doubt.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was separately touched by some specific recollection.
-- Nevertheless, some there were, who even in the face of these things were ready to give chase to Moby Dick; and a still greater number who, chancing only to hear of him distantly and vaguely, without the specific details of any certain calamity, and without superstitious accompaniments, were sufficiently hardy not to flee from the battle if offered.
-- Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults.
-- Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
-- The repeated specific allusions of Flask to "that whale," as he called the fictitious monster which he declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boat's bow with its tail these allusions of his were at times so vivid and life-like, that they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch a fearful look over the shoulder.
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