scientific是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 科学上的,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《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Glenarvan, as usual, always the peacemaker, interfered in the debate, and said:"Whether the loss of ferocious animals is to be regretted or not, in a scientific point of view, there is no help for it now; we must be content to do without them.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'To the man of precisely scientific mind the work of Mon-sieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly.'
-- 'I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind.
-- He had brought back much scientific information from South Africa, and many a charming evening we have spent together discussing the comparative anatomy of the Bushman and the Hottentot.
-- 'It is evidently a case of extraordinary interest, and one which presented immense opportunities to the scientific expert.
-- It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had served, at first, in one of the civil departments, had then attended to matters connected with the local government of provincial towns, and had of late been a corresponding member of several important scientific so-cieties.
-- Lebedeff was in his usual evening condition, and had just ended a long and scientific argument, which had left him excited and irritable.
-- The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most probably accursed.'
-- 'But the universal necessity of living, of drinking, of eating in short, the whole scientific conviction that this necessity can only be satisfied by universal co-operation and the solidarity of interests is, it seems to me, a strong enough idea to serve as a basis, so to speak, and a 'spring of life,' for humanity in future centuries,' said Gavrila Ar-dalionovitch, now thoroughly roused.
-- I will just add, however, that Georges Dandin might have existed exactly as Moliere presented him, and probably does exist now and then, though rarely; and so I will end this scientific examination, which is beginning to look like a newspaper criticism.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I told him I'd heard he took an interest in scientific things.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There is no more envious race of men than scientific discoverers.
-- "A man of real scientific acquirements would be delighted at the chance.
-- "All scientific teaching, theoretical and practical, shows it to be impossible."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was a partner in a house in some large way spirits, or buttons, or wine, or blacking, or oatmeal, or woollen, or pork, or hooks and eyes, or iron, or treacle, or shoes, or something or other that was wanted for troops, or seamen, or somebody and the house burst, and we being among the creditors, detainees were lodged on the part of the Crown in a scientific manner, and all the rest of it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete.
-- The original matter touching the sperm whale to be found in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes, it is of excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific description.
-- As yet, however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature.
-- Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand.
-- For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's; ever since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific presentations of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being brought to that pass which will enable a gentleman to eat his own head in the event of his being so disposed, Mr. Grimwig's head was such a particularly large one, that the most sanguine man alive could hardly entertain a hope of being able to get through it at a sitting--to put entirely out of the question, a very thick coating of powder.
-- Master Bates was also attentive to the play; but being of a more excitable nature than his accomplished friend, it was observable that he more frequently applied himself to the gin-and-water, and moreover indulged in many jests and irrelevant remarks, all highly unbecoming a scientific rubber.
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