reservoir是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 水库， 蓄水池，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cravings, instincts, desires that harm humanity, a strange hidden reservoir to burst forth sud-denly and inundate the whole being of the creature with anger, hate, or fear.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taken below the frozen surface, and conducted through the passage, it preserved its fluidity, and arrived at an interior reservoir which had been hollowed out at the back part of the storeroom, while the overflow ran through the well to the sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature.
-- Really, I knew already the anterior part of this submarine boat, of which this is the exact division, starting from the ship's head: the dining-room, five yards long, separated from the library by a water-tight partition; the library, five yards long; the large drawing-room, ten yards long, separated from the Captain's room by a second water-tight partition; the said room, five yards in length; mine, two and a half yards; and, lastly a reservoir of air, seven and a half yards, that extended to the bows.
-- It consists of a reservoir of thick iron plates, in which I store the air under a pressure of fifty atmospheres.
-- This reservoir is fixed on the back by means of braces, like a soldier's knapsack.
-- "Right!But I told you, M. Aronnax, that the pumps of the Nautilus allow me to store the air under considerable pressure, and on those conditions the reservoir of the apparatus can furnish breathable air for nine or ten hours."
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：
-- It was as if some reservoir of black emotion had burst within him, and swamped him.
-- He was commissioned to open the sluice that let out the water from the lake, which was pierced at one end, near the high-road, thus serving as a reservoir to supply with water the distant mines, in case of necessity.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Light vapors, which rose here and there, and floated in fleecy clouds from rock to rock, indicated hot springs, which also poured their superfluity into the vast reservoir at our feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, why should the whale thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish his reservoir of air, ere descending for good?
-- The intense heat of the fire is prevented from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir extending under the entire inclosed surface of the works.
-- By a tunnel inserted at the rear, this reservoir is kept replenished with water as fast as it evaporates.
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