peak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 山顶， 最高点； 峰， 山峰a. 高峰的， 最高的，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：
-- In the Canary Islands, you see, there are three groups to study, besides the Peak of Teneriffe, which I always wished to visit.
-- Anyway, though we are forty miles off, yet I tell you the Peak of Teneriffe is quite visible yonder above the horizon."
-- "Yes, yes, distinctly," replied Paganel, adding in a disdainful tone, "and that's what they call the Peak of Teneriffe!"
-- That is vexing, too, for you would find it dull work waiting for a vessel in the Peak of Teneriffe."
-- They were not far now from the highest peak of the Cordilleras, but there was not the slightest trace of any beaten path.
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：
-- There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cut-ting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind decked with the emblems of a hundred cities; then she stepped into her flaming chariot and grasped the spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, with which she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her.
-- The spear struck the projecting peak of his helmet: its bronze point then went through his forehead into the brain, and darkness veiled his eyes.
-- As when the stars shine clear, and the moon is bright there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jutting headland but it stands out in the ineffable radiance that breaks from the serene of heaven; the stars can all of them be told and the heart of the shepherd is glad even thus shone the watchfires of the Trojans before Ilius midway between the ships and the river Xanthus.
-- Brave Thrasymedes pro-vided the son of Tydeus with a sword and a shield (for he had left his own at his ship) and on his head he set a helmet of bull's hide without either peak or crest; it is called a skull-cap and is a common headgear.
-- On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse-hair that nod-ded menacingly above it; then he grasped two redoubtable bronze-shod spears, and the gleam of his armour shot from him as a flame into the firmament, while Juno and Minerva thundered in honour of the king of rich Mycene.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Putting his hand to the peak of his cap, he bowed to her and asked, Was there anything she wanted?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, on the contrary, this is the coast of a desert island in some tiny archipelago, perhaps we shall be able to reconnoiter it from the summit of that peak which overlooks the country, and then we shall see how best to establish ourselves here as if we are never to go away."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quarters on the peak of Olympus into the wide sky above it, their words show a proportionate increase of arrogance and reserve.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have made a pilgrimage 103to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thebarbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and therich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies.
-- Standing somelittle distance away from the barbecue tables, he was at the peak of an argument with John Wilkes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw, three miles off, Martin's peak in Nouka-Hiva, the largest of the group that belongs to France.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From whence we started it was impossible to make out the real outlines of the peak against the grey field of sky.
-- The only exception to this extraordinary landscape, was the Peak of Scartaris, which seemed lost in the great void of the heavens.
-- We were, in fact, to consider the pointed peak as the stylus of an immense sun-dial, the shadow of which pointed on one given day, like the inexorable finger of fate, to the yawning chasm which led into the interior of the earth.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages? The blast!the blast!Up, spine, and meet it!
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away to the south-west of us we saw two low hills, about a couple of miles apart, and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog.
-- The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water, and since, pull as I liked, I could not budge the downhall, that was the extent of what I could accomplish.
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