Mediterranean是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 地中海 a. 地中海的，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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he set out on his holiday in the Mediterranean he had every intention of returning to London and his appointment at St. Thomas's.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea was as tranquil and blue as that of a Mediterranean gulf, when the sky is clear.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blue Mediterranean appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide himself in a vessel bound for the Black Sea.
-- The 254 FrankensteinGreeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the bound-ary of their toils.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The ancients well understood the utility of a communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean for their commercial affairs: but they did not think of digging a canal direct, and took the Nile as an intermediate.
-- I noticed that in the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean there existed a certain number of fishes of a kind perfectly identical.
-- THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURSThe Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!
-- I saw no more of the interior of this Mediterranean than a traveller by express train perceives of the landscape which flies before his eyes; that is to say, the distant horizon, and not the nearer objects which pass like a flash of lightning.
-- During the night of the 16th and 17th February we had entered the second Mediterranean basin, the greatest depth of which was 1,450 fathoms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then," said I, after calculating for some for some minutes, "if your previsions are right, we are at this moment exactly under the Mediterranean itself."
-- But why we should be under the Mediterranean more than under Turkey or the Atlantic Ocean can only be known when we are sure of not having deviated from our course; and of this we know nothing."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither the Saone nor the Rhone sped with the swiftness of that peerless building; nor was the Mediterranean deeper than its foundations; nor were the distant landscapes on the Cornice road, nor the hills and bay of Genoa the Superb, more beautiful.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies.
-- For a long time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always unknown in the Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it.
-- Now, as a vessel of war readily passes through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
-- It was this, if I remember right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the Mediterranean Sea, and after three days he was vomited up somewhere within three days' journey of Nineveh, a city on the Tigris, very much more than three days' journey across from the nearest point of the Mediterranean coast.
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