camel是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 骆驼,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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So that for an hour or more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four supplementary stomachs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was a pretty creature, like a small camel without a hump.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- My tent lay far away from the camel lines, and I thought it was safe.
-- A camel had blundered into it, and wet and angry as I was, I could not help laughing.
-- I heard the harness jingle as the mule backed and caught the camel two kicks in the ribs that rang like a drum.
-- The camel doubled up camel-fashion, like a two-foot rule, and sat down whimpering.
-- 'My lords,' said the camel humbly, 'we dreamed bad dreams in the night, and we were very much afraid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For, though nobody knew with the least precision what Mr Merdle's business was, except that it was to coin money, these were the terms in which everybody defined it on all ceremonious occasions, and which it was the last new polite reading of the parable of the camel and the needle's eye to accept without inquiry.
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